MiKTeX and proTeXt ⇒ beamer is not working

[lesoli]

Hallo! I just installed MikteX (with Texniccenter) on Windows. When I make a document with \documentclass{article} everything works fine. But if i make a \documentclass{beamer} document it does not creat any output files (only an empty pdf file). I already added beamer, pgf and xcolor packages.
I used several different example programs so i dont think its because of an error in the tex code...

If anyone knows what i have to do/what i did wrong or has any suggestions i would be very grateful!

[josephwright]

Post an example tex file and your log. beamer certainly works, so we need some more information here.

[lesoli]

That is my example tex file:

Code: Select all

\documentclass{beamer}

\usepackage{beamerthemesplit}

\title{Example Presentation Created with the Beamer Package}
\author{Till Tantau}
\date{\today}

\begin{document}

\frame{\titlepage}

\section[Outline]{}
\frame{\tableofcontents}

\section{Introduction}
\subsection{Overview of the Beamer Class}
\frame
{
  \frametitle{Features of the Beamer Class}

  \begin{itemize}
  \item<1-> Normal LaTeX class.
  \item<2-> Easy overlays.
  \item<3-> No external programs needed.      
  \end{itemize}
}
\end{document}

what is my "log"? The message that appears when I compile the code? I dont get any log files...

[lesoli]

ok i'm sorry i found a log file. its:

Code: Select all

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (MiKTeX 2.8) (preloaded format=pdflatex 2009.11.18)  18 NOV 2009 23:17
entering extended mode
**C:/Dokumente*und*Einstellungen/Lisa/Desktop/latex_vorlagen/LaTeXtest.tex
("C:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/Lisa/Desktop/latex_vorlagen/LaTeXtest.tex"
LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, ge
rman, ngerman, german-x-2009-06-19, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, french, loaded.

("C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Lisa\Anwendungsdaten\MiKTeX\2.8\tex\latex\beam
er\base\beamer.cls"
("C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Lisa\Anwendungsdaten\MiKTeX\2.8\tex\latex\beam
er\base\beamerbasercs.sty"
Package: beamerbasercs 2007/01/28 (rcs-revision 1.4)
)
Document Class: beamer 2007/03/11 cvs version 3.07 A class for typesetting pres
entations (rcs-revision 1.70)

("C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Lisa\Anwendungsdaten\MiKTeX\2.8\tex\latex\beam
er\base\beamerbasemodes.sty"
Package: beamerbasemodes 2007/01/28 (rcs-revision 1.22)
\beamer@tempbox=\box26
\beamer@tempcount=\count79
\c@beamerpauses=\count80

("C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Lisa\Anwendungsdaten\MiKTeX\2.8\tex\latex\beam
er\base\beamerbasedecode.sty"
Package: beamerbasedecode 2007/01/28 (rcs-revision 1.20)
\beamer@slideinframe=\count81
\beamer@minimum=\count82
)
\beamer@commentbox=\box27
\beamer@modecount=\count83
)
\headheight=\dimen102
\headdp=\dimen103
\footheight=\dimen104
\sidebarheight=\dimen105
\beamer@tempdim=\dimen106
\beamer@finalheight=\dimen107
\beamer@animht=\dimen108
\beamer@animdp=\dimen109
\beamer@animwd=\dimen110
\beamer@leftmargin=\dimen111
\beamer@rightmargin=\dimen112
\beamer@leftsidebar=\dimen113
\beamer@rightsidebar=\dimen114
\beamer@boxsize=\dimen115
\beamer@vboxoffset=\dimen116
\beamer@descdefault=\dimen117
\beamer@descriptionwidth=\dimen118
\beamer@lastskip=\skip41
\beamer@areabox=\box28
\beamer@animcurrent=\box29
\beamer@animshowbox=\box30
\beamer@sectionbox=\box31
\beamer@logobox=\box32
\beamer@linebox=\box33
\beamer@sectioncount=\count84
\beamer@subsubsectionmax=\count85
\beamer@subsectionmax=\count86
\beamer@sectionmax=\count87
\beamer@totalheads=\count88
\beamer@headcounter=\count89
\beamer@partstartpage=\count90
\beamer@sectionstartpage=\count91
\beamer@subsectionstartpage=\count92
\beamer@animationtempa=\count93
\beamer@animationtempb=\count94
\beamer@xpos=\count95
\beamer@ypos=\count96
\beamer@showpartnumber=\count97
\beamer@currentsubsection=\count98
\beamer@coveringdepth=\count99
\beamer@sectionadjust=\count100
\beamer@tocsectionnumber=\count101

("C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Lisa\Anwendungsdaten\MiKTeX\2.8\tex\latex\beam
er\base\beamerbaseoptions.sty"
Package: beamerbaseoptions 2007/01/28 (rcs-revision 1.8)

("C:\Programme\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\graphics\keyval.sty"
Package: keyval 1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
\KV@toks@=\toks14
))

I hope anyone can help me! Thank you again...

[mas]

Tried running pdflatex on your file. It compiled cleanly with no errors and it *did* generate a pdf file. Here is a snippet of the run:

Code: Select all

...
Output written on x.pdf (5 pages, 70386 bytes).
Transcript written on x.log.

Regards,

[josephwright]

I wonder if you are running into the issue described at http://miktex.org/2.8/issues

[lesoli]

That was a good advice. In my run file it said 'GUI framework cannot be initialized'.

I changed the settings as said on this page and now it works! Thank you so much!!