Fwd: DVI to PDF

Sent again w/0 figure which made file too big.


On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:16 PM, John Rudnicki <[email protected]>wrote:

> David:
>
> Windows 7
> MikTex 2.9 (64 bit) - which I just downloaded today
> Using WinEdit 8 to convert dvi to pdf (so I do not know exactly how it
> does it)
> Examples of tex, dvi and pdf files are attached.
>
> I just moved to a new computer, but did not have this problem on the old
> one running MikTex and using WinEdit 7 (I checked with WinEdit, but they
> said the warnings sounded like a MikTex problem)
>
> Paul:
>
> When I try to run pdflatex directly (again via WinEdit) I get other
> problems: messages that certain files are missing. It asks if I want to
> install them. Although I say "yes" it seems like they do not get installed.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> John
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:10 PM, David Allsopp <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> John Rudnicki wrote:
>> > When I try to convert my dvi file to pdf, the figures get messed up
>> (e.g.,
>> > captions are printed over the figure). The dvi file is fine. And I am
>> > getting the warning "couldn't open font map file kanjix.map". Problem
>> > started when I re-installed MikTex on a new computer.
>>
>> <sigh>
>>
>> 1. Minimal example which doesn't work
>> 2. Sequence of commands you're using to get from TeX -> PDF (because
>> there's considerably more than one way)
>> 3. Version of MiKTeX you're installing and, as there's a teeny risk it'll
>> be relevant, version of Windows
>>
>> Which might yield (more) helpful responses...
>>
>> The thread http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.miktex/11996suggests that there may be a configuration problem with kanjix.map - it
>> sounds like you may also need to have a very up-to-date MiKTeX (though I'm
>> sure Ulrike will pipe up with perfect advice on this *when you post a
>> minimal example*!)
>>
>>
>> David
>>
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    and Department of Mechanical Engineering
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.  USA
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