General ⇒ won't build output file, don't know what is wrong

[amirall]

I'm using TXC + MikTeX 2.9, this error came up recently when I tried to build output PDF files

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if someone can help me figure out what's wrong and how to fix it, or point it to the solution if it has been posted before already (my apologies), I would really appreciate it.

Thanks.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

The message "No pages of output" means that your document does not contain text which can be printed, for example if it would be just a preamble without real text after \begin{document}.

Perhaps show the code of a minimal working example which doesn't work for you.

Stefan

[amirall]

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\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[left=1in,right=1in,top=1in,bottom=1in]{geometry}
\setlength{\headheight}{23pt}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}

\begin{document}
\fancyhead{}
\fancyfoot{}
\lhead{\large \textbf{Course Number}}
\chead{\large \textbf{Homework \#}}
\rhead{\large \textbf{Name}}
\cfoot{\thepage}

%Document goes here.

\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

As guessed, there's no text to be printed. You only have some header settings in your document. Add some normal text and build again.

Stefan

[amirall]

I see, so the header doesn't count as "text" when it tries to build the output file?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Yes - the header is only added to page if the page exists. Also the footer with the page number: if there's no second page, it would not produce this page for printing the footer with the page number. Similarly, if there's no first page, there's no reason to number it or to print a header or a footer on it.

Don't hesitate, just write some text. An \mbox{} or a tilde ~ would already cause a page to be produced.

Stefan