General ⇒ Texniccenter and Windows 7, 64-bit

[rasole]

Hi there,

I have recently changed from Vista 32bit to Windows 64bit, and Texniccenter is behaving very strange. When I e.g. write

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\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}

\title{This is the title}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\end{document}

it cannot open the compiled pdf-file and gives the warning [DocOpen("%bm.pdf")][FileOpen("%bm.pdf")]. Nothing is wrong with the code, as it works perfectly on Vista 32bit. Do I need to install some other packages to the new OS? Thanks

[magicmoose]

Post your log file and check the path to your viewer in the texniccenter build profile

[rasole]

This is the only content of the .log-file

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This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (MiKTeX 2.8) (preloaded format=pdflatex 2010.1.2)  10 FEB 2010 09:49
entering extended mode
**D:/Forskning/articles/testarticle/main.tex
(D:/Forskning/articles/testarticle/main.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:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\base\report.cls"
Document Class: report 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\base\size10.clo"
File: size10.clo 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
)
\c@part=\count79
\c@chapter=\count80
\c@section=\count81
\c@subsection=\count82
\c@subsubsection=\count83
\c@paragraph=\count84
\c@subparagraph=\count85
\c@figure=\count86
\c@table=\count87
\abovecaptionskip=\skip41
\belowcaptionskip=\skip42
\bibindent=\dimen102
)

It seems that the error occurs, when I add some usepackages like e.g. \usepackage{lipsum} to generate latin text. Is it an issue with MikTeX 2.8?

[localghost]

Try to compile on the command line and see what happens.


Best regards
Thorsten

[rasole]

I have no idea how to do that? Can you provide some documentation?

[magicmoose]

Open the command prompt (google if you don't know how to do this) then navigate to the directory where your tex file is contained in by using cd directory then type latex filename.tex

[localghost]

I have no idea how to do that? Can you provide some documentation?

Hm. Shouldn't you actually know how to handle your operating system? I rarely use Windows and my current system³ (XP) will be the last one. But magicmoose seemed to point you in the right direction.

[yoyoimut]

Hi there,

I have recently changed from Vista 32bit to Windows 64bit, and Texniccenter is behaving very strange. When I e.g. write

Do I need to install some other packages to the new OS? Thanks

I also use Win7 64 bit, but it works well.

My installation steps:

1. I need PSTricks so my conversion path must be LaTeX->PS->PDF.
Because of that, I install Active Perl 32 bit or Strawberry Perl 32 bit.
Unless you want to manually create output profile LaTeX->PS->PDF in TeXnicCenter later, don't install Perl 64 bit.

2. Install ghostscript 32 bit rather than 64 bit.

3. Install Adobe Acrobat Reader.

4. Install the newest Miktex.

5. Install TeXnicCenter, just follow the wizard.
You must set the compiler path to C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.8\miktex\bin

Done.


I hope it is usefull.


Thanks.

[localghost]

[...] I need PSTricks so my conversion path must be LaTeX->PS->PDF.
Because of that, I install Active Perl 32 bit or Strawberry Perl 32 bit.
Unless you want to manually create output profile LaTeX->PS->PDF in TeXnicCenter later, don't install Perl 64 bit. [...]

I don't see the correlation between pstricks and the necessity of a Perl interpreter when using this build profile.

[yoyoimut]

I don't see the correlation between pstricks and the necessity of a Perl interpreter when using this build profile.

I am sorry. You are right.

I installed Perl for pdfcrop.pl which I sometimes use to crop pdf.
It is irrelevant, so just skip the step 1.


Thank you.