General ⇒ Compilation Error

[lnsam22]

Hi all,

I'm trying to build my project file. However it does not notice the changes I make to the individual input files I have included in the project file. I have gone so far as to comment out the \begin{document} line in the project file itself just to see if it's reading the file at all. And it isn't! No errors. And then it gives me the same DVI file it showed me before the build.

I've checked to make sure it's building the correct file, and it is. I don't know what the problem could be. Any ideas?


thanks,
lnsam22

[cgnieder]

How are you compiling your document? Have you tried compiling it from the command line?

Regards

[lnsam22]

Nope. Thus far I've simply been either hitting the "F7" button or clicking on Build->Build file.
I'm using windows 7 and not accustomed to using shells here. Unless you're talking about something else.
I don't understand why that would change anything though....

lnsam22

[cgnieder]

Also in windows you can open the command line, go to the directory the document (let's call it file.tex) is in and call

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pdflatex file.tex

This way you make sure the file is used. Then you will get an error if \begin{document} is missing.

I can only imagine that you're using an editor (you haven't told which one and there are quite a few) that's supposed to call LaTeX when you click on a button and that this somehow fails.

Regards

[sommerfee]

No errors. And then it gives me the same DVI file it showed me before the build.

This sounds to me like the known TeXnicCenter/MikTeX "GUI framework cannot be initialized" issue.

Workaround: Either change the package installation method of MikTeX from "Ask me first" to "Yes" or use a different (La)TeX editor than TeXnicCenter.

[lnsam22]

Hi guys,

First, sorry for not saying which editor I was using. Sommerfee, you're right: it's TexnicCenter.
So I was unsure where to find the "ask me first" without completely re-installing MikteX so I uninstalled, and reinstalled both. I changed the define profiles setting to ensure that there was no MakeIndex or BibteX (I saw that I should do this on an installation guide online somewhere). So now it's working for the .dvi file. It's reading my changes, blahblah. But the same cannot be said for the .pdf file. I tried changing the output profiles the same as for the .dvi, but there is no .pdf output file being produced.

Any ideas? I hope I'm clear enough.

..and yes, I changed from "ask me first" to "yes".

thanks for the help!

[lnsam22]

Ok,

here's where I've gotten. I used cgnieder's suggestion and ran the program from the command line. So now it works. I can build and view output in pdf from the command line.....but not from the gui interface. A window shows up that says:

[DocOpen("%bm.pdf")][FileOpen("%bm.pdf")]
Cannot execute the command

..my file is not named bm.pdf. As a matter of fact I've been using one of the default projects to test on.
So, why? I mean, i guess in a sense my problem is solved. But it's a bit inconvenient.

Oh, and thanks for the help. It was appreciated.

lnsam22