Re: problems running pdftex on fresh install of mikTex

Thanks all using pdflatex solved my problem.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vladimir Yumashev [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2014 1:47 AM
To: A place for MiKTeX users to discuss MiKTeX related questions.
Subject: Re: [MiKTeX] problems running pdftex on fresh install of mikTex

 Hi,

It looks like pdftex treats the source file as plain TeX so that all LaTeX commands are undefined.
Try pdflatex instead.


Суббота,  8 февраля 2014, 18:47 -08:00 от Don Raikes <[email protected]>:
>Hello,
>
> 
>
>I am new to MikTex, and just installed it on windows7 64-bit.
>
>I added the d:\miktex\miktex\bin\x64 folder to my path, and created the following sample latex file:
>
> 
>
>% hello.tex
>
>\documentclass{article}
>
>\begin{document}
>
>Hello World!
>
>\end{document}
>
> 
>
>When I run pdftex hello.tex, I get some odd errors:
>
>This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (MiKTeX 2.9 64-bit) 
>(preloaded format=pdftex 2014.2.6)  8 FEB 2014 19:44
>
>entering extended mode
>
>**hello.tex
>
>(c:\hello.tex
>
>! Undefined control sequence.
>
>l.2 \documentclass
>
>                  {article}
>
>? 
>
>! Undefined control sequence.
>
>l.3 \begin
>
>          {document}
>
>? 
>
>[1{C:/ProgramData/MiKTeX/2.9/pdftex/config/pdftex.map}] 
>)<d:/miktex/fonts/type1
>
>/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr10.pfb>
>
>Output written on hello.pdf (1 page, 14011 bytes).
>
>PDF statistics:
>
>10 PDF objects out of 1000 (max. 8388607)
>
>0 named destinations out of 1000 (max. 500000)
>
>1 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 10000 (max. 10000000)
>
> 
>
>The pdf file is created, but it just seems odd that pdftex would be objecting to basic latex syntax.
>
> 
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
> 
>
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