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Unfortunately, the issue discussed in the thread here IS a DDE problem that occurs when the path to Acrobat Reader is correctly specified. Try to compile your document (as PDF), view it, and then recompile. What is very likely to happen is that AR crashes. Hence, this thread.

Mircea

Try forcing the conversion the first couple of times by including the file extension, and then omit it. Maybe that works...

If you don't use PSTricks and the only question is about eps graphics, here's a solution that might work. You need two packages: eps2pdf and ifpdf. Then add the following in your preamble:


\usepackage{epstopdf}

\usepackage{ifpdf}
\ifpdf
\usepackage[pdftex]{hyperref}
\else
\usepackage[hypertex ...

If I remember it right, what worked for me was to put the path to the file in quotations. Not "LaTeX fancy quotes", but regular ones:

\bibliography{"C:/My Documents/mybib.bib"}

Try that, if it works. TC automatically converts quotations to LaTeX fancy ones, but you can just copy-paste the ...

Honestly, that is strange. I don't really know what else to suggest. It seems like the problem is the DDE communication between Yap and TC, but I don't know why it would happen. I'll see if I can think of anything else and I'll let you know. Sorry I can't do more.
Mircea

These are a couple of things I can think of quickly:
1. would you consider upgrading to the last version of TexnicCenter (which is 7.01)?
2. check if you run anything after latex: in TexnicCenter, go again to Define Output profiles and check if you have anything in the Postprocessor tab.
3. finally ...

Can you check if source specials are included in the DVI? Look at the build profile in TexnicCenter (from the menus, Build/Define output profiles and choose the Latex=> DVI or whatever build profile you're using) if in the LaTeX compiler command line arguments you have something like --src . If not ...

There seems to be just one problem: if Adobe Reader is running and the PDF file is not open, the DDE command for closing the document crashes Adobe. So, for instance, if you compile the file to PDF, view it in Reader, close it in Reader, go back to TexnicCenter and recompile, Reader will crash ...

(1) In "MikTex Options", in the General tab, you have the Package installation section, where you can choose what you want Miktex to do if a package is needed (I have it set to "Ask me first", for example).

(2) You can always create this build profile yourself. In TexnicCenter, go to Build-Define ...

jjt3 wrote: Simply, put a second [DocOpen("%bm.pdf")] in front of the first in the two instances in build profile, and this seems to keep it quiet.

Life-saving It works! Thanks...

Mircea