Re: New format

On 29/12/2015 15:38, José Carlos Santos wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I tried to create a new memory dump file and I failed. What I did was to 
> create a files, called pdfplainpt.tex, and I've put it on a directory 
> which is one of MiKTeX's root directories. However, if I try to build 
> the memory dump file, I get an error message. In fact, if I open a DOS 
> window, if I go to the directory where the file pdfplainpt.tex is 
> located and if I run
> 
> miktex-makefmt.exe --engine=pdftex --dest-name=pdfplainpt pdfplainpt.tex 
> --verbose --admin
> 
> what I get is:
> 
> ---------------------------------------------
> Creating the pdfplainpt format file...
> Running miktex-pdftex.exe...
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (MiKTeX 2.9 64-bit) (INITEX)
> entering extended mode
> ! I can't find file `pdfplainpt.tex'.
> <*> pdfplainpt.tex
>                     \dump
> Please type another input file name
> ! Emergency stop.
> <*> pdfplainpt.tex
>                     \dump
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on texput.log.
> 
> Sorry, but miktex-makefmt did not succeed for the following reason:
> 
>    miktex-pdftex.exe failed on pdfplainpt.tex.
> 
> The log file hopefully contains the information to get MiKTeX going again:
> 
>    C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/MiKTeX/2.9/miktex/log/miktex-makefmt.log
> ---------------------------------------------
> 
> I don't understand the "I can't find file `pdfplainpt.tex'", since I do 
> this on the directory where the file is located! What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> José Carlos Santos

MiKTeX will *only* find files inside the MiKTeX-managed tree if they are
in the file name database. So either:

 - Move the file out of the managed tree and do your work there
 - Update your database before trying to build the format

Joseph


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