General ⇒ TeXnicCenter does not generate properly output files

[mangeclous]

I know this problem has already been report but it is yet not answered.

i have installed EVERYTHING by default and yet texniccenter or miktex does not create file in the folder containing my .tex

as a result, i get the error message
Windows API error 2: The system cannot find the file specified.
when using latex => DVI


and
[DocOpen("%bm.pdf")][FileOpen("%bm.pdf")]
cannnot execute the comand
when using latex => pdf

can anyone help me please

[MartinC]

What version of TxC do you use? Alpha 2 should be better.

Could you post your settings?

[mangeclous]

in the end, it seems to be a problem with accessing to internet to dl package.

thanks for your help

[xf2z]

I got exactly the same problem ! any solution yet?
Many thanks.

[Montag]

Please post screenshots (upload them to this forum) of your output profile settings.

[problems]

Hello,
I've the same problem.
What can I do?
How can I post here the error message?
Thanks

[sommerfee]

Can you compile your document using TeXworks instead of TeXnicCenter?

(TeXworks is part of MikTeX and TeXlive)

[tancheepin]

Hi I've got a problem too (not sure if it's related to this topic).

I just installed Miktex 2.9 and then used Texniccentre. It seems to compile, but says '0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 bad boxes, 0 pages'

And there is no output generated (dvi or ps). Any settings I should change?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

perhaps we might be able to see the reason if you post the .log file. You can upload attachments here.
Btw. it's commonly better to start a new thread instead of appending to an ealier one. So we could easier find your open question. I will split the topic later.

Stefan

[fouriertransformer]

Hello; I would like to comment on my experience with this problem. I have been trying to write documents incorporating Sweave. While TeXnicCenter has been able to build my tex files to pdf in the past, it would not work with documents where I've used the Sweave package. In particular, upon compiling, Adobe says the file doesn't exist, and TXC gives me the same error message as listed in the OP. Most importantly, no pdf file is created (hence the error messages).

After a lot of searching and experimentation, I finally tried compiling using TeXworks instead. It was not successful at first BUT, the difference was that TexWorks told me that some style files (e.g. fancyvrb.sty) were missing, and prompted me to download them. After that, not only did TexWorks produce a pdf, but TXC worked as well.

My takeaway from this is that the Sweave package somehow depends on the packages that were missing. It is a shame that TXC was not able to tell me that I was missing some required packages; is there a way to change this, or at least some way to tell when this kind of problem is occuring? The little log at the bottom of the screen in TXC didn't seem to offer any hint that this was what was preventing the build.