General ⇒ Differences in Output with MiKTeX and TeX Live

[mmutoo]

Hi everybody.

I am a new member and happy to join the community. I am rather new to latex world too. I have used MiKTeX for a while, and I am considering to give TeX Live a try. I tried compiling a source file I had before to a DVI file. However, one of the figures files is not present any more in the directory. With MiKTeX, I receive an error which is normal of course, but I still get an output DVI file which I can view, although the figure is not there. However, when I compile the file with TeX Live, I get the same errors but the output DVI file is less in volume, and corrupted (since I cannot view it).

So, my question is, does anybody know if there is differences between the binary files of MiKTeX and TeX Live? And if there is a trick to make TeX Live generate the DVI without the figures?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

And if there is a trick to make texlive generate the dvi without the figures?

you could use the demo option to graphicx, or to the class, which would be inherited by graphicx. Then it would be compiled without images.

Stefan

[mmutoo]

Thanks a lot Stefan. I will try it definitely