<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I've tried a number of other books and experience the same problem with all of them. Later this evening I hope to setup of the system on another PC here at home. Maybe it has something to do with that particular install. By undertaking the two step process, I've been able to generate the whole set. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Again, a BIG thank you for all who have helped. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Gratefully,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Maurice</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 12 Aug 2006, at 15:53, Jonathan Kew wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Subsequently I'm able to generate the PDF file in a two step process</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">(but still get the suspect DOS16 errors when I try to run it simply</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">as xetex 41Matt.tex...and when run as one step there is no PDF file</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">output on the file system despite the message which follows).</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I still don't understand why the one-step operation fails for you. <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Are you able to process other test files this way?</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>