Re: MikTeX2.9 and eps

Sorry for my bad temper, but things became very frustrating.

I finally concluded that my MikTeX2.9 had been corrupted for some reason 
in the transfer from one
PC to another. So I downloaded the latest version from scratch.
On the way I encountered "Windows API error 5" but Windows itself 
spontaneously proposed
getting administrator permission and this worked. (Would it not be
helpful to put a warning into the download tutorial about this, as it 
seems to be a necessary step  ?).
Now dvi compiles, with the eps figure, whatever WinEdit option I take 
(Texify, latex or whatever).
"dvi to pdf" then compiles to pdf but with a blank instead of the figure.
However the direct "PDF Texify" option  leads to a pdf output WITH the 
figure.
So I still have a minor acrobat problem but I can get to where I need.

Many thanks to all those who made kind suggestions about what I should do.

                                           Ian

On 16/12/2014 11:28, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> Am Tue, 16 Dec 2014 09:14:08 +0100 schrieb Ian CAMPBELL:
>
>> This is becoming ludicrous.
>>
>> I reinstalled 2.9 in Program Files, next to WinEdit, so as to simplify
>> things, and updated the paths from WinEdit.
>> For some reason now it cannot compile at all.
>> When I try to compile using the WinEdit Textify option which is what I
>> am used to,
> Always di the first tests with a minimal hello-world-document and
> with pdflatex and/or latex. Also when you run into problesm try to
> compile on the command line to check if the configuration of the
> editor is wrong or the tex system.
>
>> I get endless comments.
>> These start with " texcase.sty not found". As far as I can see there is
>> no textcase.sty file in my version of 2.9.
> It is in mine
> D:\MiKTeX2.9\tex\latex\textcase\textcase.sty
> Package: textcase 2004/10/07 v0.07 Text only upper/lower case
> changing (DPC)
>
>> Then "natbib.sty 2007/02/05 available, version 2009/11/07 requested".
>> How do I get this version ?´
> My miktex has this natbib version
>
> D:\MiKTeX2.9\tex\latex\natbib\natbib.sty
> Package: natbib 2010/09/13 8.31b
>
>
>> Then I am told to install an endless list of files, such as
>> infwarerr.sty, grfext.sty, kvdefinekeys.sty, . . . . .
> Well then install them. If you installed only the basic miktex it is
> quite possible that some packages are missing.  miktex has an
> on-the-fly installer, let it do the work. Start to worry only if
> this installations fail.
>
>
>> which were not needed before, "package.color no driver specified",
>> "special.map not found"
>> and so on. What has happened ?
> Sorry but how should we know? It is your system. Please credit the
> maintainer of miktex and the other users some basic intelligence: If
> the system wouldn't work at all someone would have noticed. So it is
> something on *your* system that is wrong.
>
> It doesn't make sense to tell us that you install the program
> *somewhere* and adjusted *some* pathes.
>
> It is useless to quote *some* unspecific error messages. TeX &
> friends produce more exact log-files and terminal messages than
> that.
>
> So try to be a bit more specific.
>
>> I am sending you my document and an eps figure so you can test for
>> yourself.
> The eps-file has been stripped. You must put it somewhere for
> download. Apart from this you example compiles without problems.
>
>

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