Re: a problem with MiKTeX 2.9

To Ulrike Fischer:

Thank you Ulrike for looking at my problem.
I made a Hello, World .tex document as suggested,
latex'ed it and yap returned Hello, World as expected.

You are right that my statement of the problem was too
vague. I append the results of dvips and dvipdfm:

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C:\>dvips c:\texoutput\hello.dvi
This is dvips(k) 5.991 Copyright 2011 Radical Eye Software 
(www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2011.06.23:1813' -> hello.ps
dvips: ! couldn't open PostScript file

C:\>dvipdfm c:\texoutput\hello.dvi
c:\texoutput\hello.dvi -> hello.pdf

** ERROR ** Unable to open "hello.pdf".

Output file removed.

C:\>
--------------------------------------------------------

Shall be grateful for other suggestions.


Uri Shmueli

P.S. The latex command was:
latex -output-directory=c:\texoutput -aux-directory=c:\tobedeleted
d:\texfil2\hello.tex  (all my latex source files are in d:\texfil2)



On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Ulrike Fischer wrote:

> Am Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:17:30 +0300 (Jerusalem Daylight Time) schrieb
> Uri Shmueli:
>
>> I have been using MiKTeX for several years without any problems.
>
>> Since my new computer is Windows 7, I decided to upgrade to version
>> 2.9. After adjusting my old batch files I could run latex and yap
>> to my satisfaction. However, dvipdfm and dvipdfmx refused to produce
>> the pdf file. Also, dvips refused to produce the ps file (if it did it,
>
> Your problem description is much to vage. I doubt that dvips writes
> on the terminal "I refuse to make a ps".
>
> Make a small hello world document.
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \begin{document}
> hello world
> \end{document}
>
> Compile it on the command line with latex + dvips. If is doesn't
> work: Copy and paste the error message of dvips.
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Ulrike Fischer
>
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