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ede978e@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Robert D. Nicholson) writes:
: I have been using texview alpha 5 and 6 and am having problems
: printing with the through the printpanel.
: 
: Printing works fine, but then the busy cursor (sorry don't know the name for it) just spins and spins.
: 
: I have two set of defaults one for 5 and one for 6 could this be a problem.

My guess is that you answer your own question in the last line.  I've been
doing a tremendous amount of TeX in the week or so (>50 pages and boy
am I tired of \, $ and typing in general) as well as shaking out the various
versions of TeXview for Tom Rokicki. Have had *absolutely no trouble* 
with printing but did find a subtle bug in the display of postscript fonts
(hint:  use Times-Roman in alpha6 at 91 dpi, look a strange compared to 
alpha 4?) that required me to run two versions (ie 4 & 6, 5 I didn't
like) "side by side".  Found a lot of the preferences were messed up by
this (although I don't really understand that since they're done with a 
dwrite only when you save them) and wouldn't be surprised if printing was
effected as well.  *Also* 5 and 6 require **different texps.pro** files
(which is marked, Lost-In-Space-like, with Danger Danger Danger!) in the 
CHANGES file.  All things considered it's amazing it works for you at all.
Get dvips5482 off of Labrea (has the new texps.pro in it as well) and install
it, and just use alpha 6.  Alpha 7 will be ready (so I'm told) shortly,
and will include several bug fixes including the one hinted at above (Rokicki
told me it was the hardest bug to find he's seen this year :-).

A couple of BTW's:  

(1)  If you like to use Edit with TeX I strongly urge you grab the TeXmenu
package off of sonata (great Duane Bibby Lion's head Icon too!) and make it
the default app for all your TeX and DVI files.  It largely obviates all the
"Hints for Using TeX with Edit" commands I posted a few months ago.

(2)  The most recent alphas, both 5 and 6 (I think) are not making a "stripped"
version of TeXview, meaning it's about 1 Mb instead of 100K, remember to
strip it after typing "make install".

Hope this proves Helpful ---- Tom