Document Classes ⇒ beamer | Erroneous Template

[ardar]

Hi

I'm using windows XP, Miktex 2.9, TeXnicCenter 1.0

I'm trying to make a presentation with beamer. I used a very common template which seems to be working everywhere.
but when I run the the tex file to make DVI file it makes one "undefined control sequence" for each line of my program

I must say I installed all necessary pakages such as beamer and xcolor and pgf and I update all installed packages.
here in the attachment you can find the error .log file

and the following link is provided in the beamer user guide .pdf file as testing the installation. I tried to run it but a lot of errors of "undefined control sequence" happend

http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/co ... min.en.tex

looking forward your help
regards
Araz

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Araz,

welcome to the board!

The first line of the .log file shows what happened:

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This is TeX, Version 3.1415926 (MiKTeX 2.9) (preloaded format=tex 2012.4.10)

You compiled with TeX (preloaded format=tex), but you need to run LaTeX (which is actually a format for TeX). So use the LaTeX compiler or switch to a LaTeX output profile, respectively.

Stefan

[ardar]

Stefan,
Thank you for your warm welcome!

actually I tried it before sending my first post.
but when I compile that file with latex first of all after compiling I see the following pop-up error in the TeXnicCenter:

Error message of TXC.

TXC-Error-API.jpg (17.27 KiB) Viewed 2581 times

and no file generated at the containing folder of .tex file, even an error log file.
and here in the attachment you can see the screen shot of what's happening after compilation

Regards
Araz

[Stefan Kottwitz]

It seems that the problem is here:

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latex.exe: The memory dump file could not be found
latex.exe: Data: latex.fmt

You could try to rebuild the format files: open the MikTeX options resp. settings in the start menu, and rebuild or update the latex format.

Stefan