Document Classes ⇒ beamer | Error Sentences displayed in Output

[Dhanya]

I use MiKTeX version 2.9.4521 and the TeXnicCenter 2 beta 1 as editor. It was working perfect till last month. But now when I tried to compile even a simple beamer presentation as this one.

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\documentclass{beamer}

\usetheme{Warsaw}
\begin{document}
\end{document}

It gives me almost 371 errors and the PDF output displays a lot of junk sentences which I believe are the commands from the package files used by the theme. I'm attaching the snapshot of the output PDF of the same.What could be the reason for this problem?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Dhanya,

welcome to the board!

Perhaps post your .log file as attachment to a forum post. It would be even better if you would add \listfiles to the preamble before compiling and posting the log., so we would see the package versions.

Stefan

[Dhanya]

Thank you for the reply!
I've added \listfiles in the preamble as you said. Here is the log file.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I think the problem is caused by outdated packages, which don't work together with newer packages.

In this case and regarding the error messages, beamer.cls and pgf are important.

In your file list I can see:

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beamer.cls    2005/10/23 cvs version 3.06 A class for typesetting presentations (rcs-revision 1.67)
pgfcore.sty    2005/10/25 v1.01 (rcs-revision 1.3)

In my file list - and on the current PC I even don't use the newest ones:

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beamer.cls    2010/06/21 development version 3.10 A class for typesetting presentations (rcs-revision a6b1a8434d30)
pgfcore.sty    2010/04/11 v2.10 (rcs-revision 1.7)

I strongly recommend to update at least beamer and pgf, or the whole TeX installation. MikTeX 2.9 is pretty new though, so check MikTeX Options / Settings, available via the start menu, and look for an "Update" button.

Stefan

[Dhanya]

In the update list of MiKTeX 2.9 beamer and pgf is not there. So should I de-install and re-install them by the MiKTeX Package Manager?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

A possible explanation would be that those packages were manually installed and so would not be involved in the MiKTeX update process.

I would remove C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\localtexmf\tex\latex\beamer\ (localtexmf points to a local installation), perhaps also C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\pgf\ and C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\pgf\, and then I would install beamer and pgf with the Package Manager.

Stefan

[Dhanya]

Sorry.It didnt work.
I removed the folders mentioned by you. Then from package manager i de-installed the beamer and pgf and then reinstalled. I tried to compile the
same tex file after refreshing FNDB. But the output pdf still shows error.
In the package manager now beamer shows packaged on 2013-01-07 and pgf shows 2011-11-05.

[Dhanya]

Stefan,
Finally it worked!!! Thanks alot
I removed the local root directory paths from ROOTS of MIKTEX OPTIONS and refreshed FNDB.
Now it works