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ze1
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Problem exporting a document to PDF in MikTeX

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Hi. I'm sorry if this a really stupid question. It must be.
I just can't export a tex document as a pdf. I tried exporting a document that works on a colleague's computer (but he runs a Linux OS).

When I try to convert to a PDF, a window saying that the required file "tex\generic\epsf\epsf.tex" is missing. Then, I click the Install button and after a while, the console says...

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Code, edit and compile here:
Command Line: texify.exe --pdf --tex-option=--synctex=-1 "C:\mccIHC1.tex"
Startup Folder: C:
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (MiKTeX 2.9)
entering extended mode
(C:/mccIHC1.tex
LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, afrikaans, ancientgreek, ar
abic, armenian, assamese, basque, bengali, bokmal, bulgarian, catalan, coptic,
croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, ga
lician, german, german-x-2009-06-19, greek, gujarati, hindi, hungarian, iceland
ic, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, kannada, kurmanji, lao, latin, lat
vian, lithuanian, malayalam, marathi, mongolian, mongolianlmc, monogreek, ngerm
an, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, nynorsk, oriya, panjabi, pinyin, polish, portuguese,
romanian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, swis
sgerman, tamil, telugu, turkish, turkmen, ukenglish, ukrainian, uppersorbian, u
senglishmax, welsh, loaded.
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\article.cls"
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\size11.clo")) (C:\mccpuc.sty
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\tools\array.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\boxedminipage\boxedminipage.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\inputenc.sty"
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\latin1.def"))
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\babel\babel.sty"
*************************************
* Local config file bblopts.cfg used
*
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\00miktex\bblopts.cfg")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\babel\portuges.ldf"
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\babel\babel.def"))
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\babel\portuges.ldf"))
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\cite\cite.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\fancybox\fancybox.sty"
Style option: `fancybox' v1.4 <2010/05/15> (tvz)
) ("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\setspace\setspace.sty"
Package: `setspace' 6.7 <2000/12/01>
) ("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\psnfss\mathpazo.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\sectsty\sectsty.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\caption\caption.sty"
 
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The console seems to be expecting an input from me, but I have no idea of what to do.
I really don't understand what's happening... I tried searching the web for an answer, but I didn't get anything that could help me.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance.

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Stefan Kottwitz
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Problem exporting a document to PDF in MikTeX

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Hi,

which document class options and which hyperref options do you use? In

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\usepackage[...]{hyperref}
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or by \hypersetup.

Perhaps post your preamble here.

Stefan
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ze1
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Problem exporting a document to PDF in MikTeX

Post by ze1 »

Hi,

I didn't post anything of the document because I figured that if it worked in my colleague's computer, it'd work in my computer... I think I am doing something stupid...
Anyway, here it is.

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Code, edit and compile here:
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{mccpuc}
\usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}
\usepackage[dvipdfm]{hyperref}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{cite}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{verbatim}
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Re: Problem exporting a document to PDF in MikTeX

Post by Stefan Kottwitz »

For using pdfLaTeX, remove the two options dvips (for graphicx) and dvipdfm (for hyperref). This would force DVI mode but not PDF mode.

Both packages are capable of autodetecting the needed driver.

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ze1
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Problem exporting a document to PDF in MikTeX

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Alright, I commented those two lines and I got this now:

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Command Line: bibtex.exe "mccIHC1"
Startup Folder: C:
This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (MiKTeX 2.9)
The top-level auxiliary file: mccIHC1.aux
I found no \citation commands---while reading file mccIHC1.aux
I found no \bibdata command---while reading file mccIHC1.aux
I found no \bibstyle command---while reading file mccIHC1.aux
(There were 3 error messages)
Command Line: texify.exe --pdf --tex-option=--synctex=-1 "C:\mccIHC1.tex"
Startup Folder: C:
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (MiKTeX 2.9)
entering extended mode
(C:/mccIHC1.tex
LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, afrikaans, ancientgreek, ar
abic, armenian, assamese, basque, bengali, bokmal, bulgarian, catalan, coptic,
croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, ga
lician, german, german-x-2009-06-19, greek, gujarati, hindi, hungarian, iceland
ic, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, kannada, kurmanji, lao, latin, lat
vian, lithuanian, malayalam, marathi, mongolian, mongolianlmc, monogreek, ngerm
an, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, nynorsk, oriya, panjabi, pinyin, polish, portuguese,
romanian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, swis
sgerman, tamil, telugu, turkish, turkmen, ukenglish, ukrainian, uppersorbian, u
senglishmax, welsh, loaded.
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\article.cls"
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\size11.clo")) (C:\mccpuc.sty
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\tools\array.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\boxedminipage\boxedminipage.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\inputenc.sty"
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\latin1.def"))
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\babel\babel.sty"
*************************************
* Local config file bblopts.cfg used
*
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\00miktex\bblopts.cfg")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\babel\portuges.ldf"
 
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After that, I also commented the line \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}. Then, I got...

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Command Line: bibtex.exe "mccIHC1"
Startup Folder: C:
This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (MiKTeX 2.9)
The top-level auxiliary file: mccIHC1.aux
I found no \citation commands---while reading file mccIHC1.aux
I found no \bibdata command---while reading file mccIHC1.aux
I found no \bibstyle command---while reading file mccIHC1.aux
(There were 3 error messages)
Command Line: texify.exe --pdf --tex-option=--synctex=-1 "C:\mccIHC1.tex"
Startup Folder: C:
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (MiKTeX 2.9)
entering extended mode
(C:/mccIHC1.tex
LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, afrikaans, ancientgreek, ar
abic, armenian, assamese, basque, bengali, bokmal, bulgarian, catalan, coptic,
croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, ga
lician, german, german-x-2009-06-19, greek, gujarati, hindi, hungarian, iceland
ic, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, kannada, kurmanji, lao, latin, lat
vian, lithuanian, malayalam, marathi, mongolian, mongolianlmc, monogreek, ngerm
an, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, nynorsk, oriya, panjabi, pinyin, polish, portuguese,
romanian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, swis
sgerman, tamil, telugu, turkish, turkmen, ukenglish, ukrainian, uppersorbian, u
senglishmax, welsh, loaded.
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\article.cls"
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\size11.clo")) (C:\mccpuc.sty
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\tools\array.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\boxedminipage\boxedminipage.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\inputenc.sty"
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\latin1.def"))
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\babel\babel.sty"
*************************************
* Local config file bblopts.cfg used
*
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\00miktex\bblopts.cfg")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\babel\portuges.ldf"
 
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