Re: MiKTeX - Fatal format file error; I'm stymied

Am Wed, 06 Nov 2013 08:29:41 +0000 schrieb Antonio Salituro:

> Hi,
> 
> I installed Miktex (version 2.9.4813 Net installer (see  
> http://miktex.org/2.9/setup) and then Texworks as editor on my laptop.
> I tried to copy/paste some of my scripts but it didn't work.  
> Precisely, I get an error message saying:
> 
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (MiKTeX 2.9 64-bit)
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
> 
> Please, could you advise about that?

Go to miktex-settings, tab "Formats". Select the format you were
trying to use (probably pdflatex) and click on build. If you get an
error try to get the error message (in most cases it is some
language which lets the format generation fail). 


-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/


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