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["Riccardo Ferrari" <address@hidden>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terrence Brannon [mailto:address@hidden]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 8:41 PM
> To: Texmacs-Users
> Subject: [TeXmacs] "unable to open the initial device"
>
>
> When attempting to export my generic-style document to PDF or
> Postscript, I get the error message:
>
> **** Unable to open the initial device, quitting.
>
> This occurs after following the page changes suggested on page 9
> of the User Manual.
>
> I was successful in printing all to file and then running Cygwin's ps2pdf.
>
> Any help is appreciated.

I was almost driven crazy by your same error. It happened to me after
installing the last release of Texmacs available via CVS. I removed it and
reinstalled 1.0.3, but still got that error. I figured out that it was an
error of Ghostscript, so reinstalled Ghostscript. Nothing. I opened a
document I saved yesterday, and TeXmacs exported it as pdf without errors.
I do not have an explanation, but I think you should try first with some
other document and see if you still get the error.

R. Ferrari