Re: pdflatex cannot write on file test.log

Am Tue, 15 Nov 2016 20:42:58 -0500 schrieb David Guaspari:

> I'm using MikTeX on Windows 10. If, from the context menu for test.tex, I
> open test.tex with pdflatex (or with latex), execution blocks with an error
> message saying that the program can't write on test.log. If, instead, I
> open test.tex with TeXworks and invoke pdflatex (or latex) from there, it
> succeeds. This suggests to me that it's not a permissions problem -- or
> that, if it is, it's more subtle than I know how to deal with. Grateful for
> any suggestions.

I have absolutly no idea how you (or some other application) added
pdflatex or latex to the context menu but my guess would be that you
are then running something like "pdflatex full-path-to-your-tex"
while beeing in the bin-folder of pdflatex where external files
can't be created (for good reasons). 


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


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