From rodrigo.vimieiro at gmail.com Thu Mar 25 18:21:08 2021 From: rodrigo.vimieiro at gmail.com (Rodrigo B. V.) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:21:08 -0300 Subject: [pdftex] Minimal Latex with PdfLatex Message-ID: Dear, I hope everything is fine with you. I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Sao Paulo. I am trying to generate a minimal Latex compiler with PdfLatex, based on this answer of Tex StackExchange. The answer provided a minimal working example of TexLive 2016 with PdfLatex and everything worked fine (see image attached). Now, I am trying to generate the 2020 version. I download TexLive 2020 and copied the same files that were in the minimal 2016 version. However, when executing the pdflatex.exe, it gives an error saying that it couldn't find the pdflatex.fmt file (as you can see in the attached image), although the file is in there. Any ideas why this is happening? You can find here both files, in order to reproduce the errors. Appreciate any help. Thank you! All the best. -- *Rodrigo de Barros Vimieiro* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: pdflatex_fmt_2016_ok.png Type: image/png Size: 32409 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: pdflatex_fmt_2020_bug.png Type: image/png Size: 16297 bytes Desc: not available URL: From beebe at math.utah.edu Fri Mar 26 02:32:33 2021 From: beebe at math.utah.edu (Nelson H. F. Beebe) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 19:32:33 -0600 Subject: [pdftex] Minimal Latex with PdfLatex In-Reply-To: Message-ID: "Rodrigo B. V." writes: >> when executing the pdflatex.exe, it gives an error saying that it >> couldn't find the pdflatex.fmt file Try running fmtutil-sys --all That should fix your issue. You should first remove any home directory subdirectory named .texlive2020, because that might hold conflicting files. That is its name on Unix systems; it may differ slightly on Microsoft Windows. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: beebe at math.utah.edu - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe at acm.org beebe at computer.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------