Problems with production of PS and PDF files

[Frank Ganz]

Hello Radek,

What's the status of the printer when you use the print menu in DVIWINDO. Could it be that your physical printer is switched off?

There's another way of getting to a PS file, it's via the TeX menu. Usually above where it says "iniTeX" the installation says DVIPSONE to PS or something. If you don't have it you can add it in your dviwindo.ini file as follows under [Applications]:

[Applications]
;<some entries omitted here!>
DVIPSONE to PostScript File |F11=C:\YANDY\DVIPSONE\DVIPSONE.BAT -*i -v -j -l=letter *

Thanks,
Frank

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Radek.Zakrzewski at goodrich.com
>[mailto:Radek.Zakrzewski at goodrich.com]
>Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 2:43 PM
>To: techsupport at yandy.com
>Subject: Problems with production of PS and PDF files
>
>
>Hello all!
>
>I have a YandY Tex System that I bought in July 2000 (the
>"about" button
>says DVIWindo (32) Previewer 2.2.4.) At that time I was
>running NT. I used
>it infrequently but with no problems. My new machine runs Windows 2000
>Professional. I installed YandY Tex onto it, using the 2000
>Pro option. I am
>able to compile my old Latex sources into DVI, no problem.
>However, I am not
>successful in producing PS or PDF files. I tried this on my old Latex
>sources as well as on the "hello_mt.tex" sample file supplied by YandY.
>
>Here's what happens in detail. I Latexed the "hello_mt.tex"
>and it produces
>"hello_mt.dvi". It appears nicely in the preview window of
>DVIWindo, with
>all symbols displayed correctly. Then I go to "Print" command.
>I tried these
>options:
>
>
>Attempt 1.
>I set "Print to file" and "Use DVIPSONE" to be turned on. Printer is my
>standard Postscript printer. But after clicking print I get the message
>
>Command:
>DVIPSONE -v -d=C:\yandy\TEXINPUT\hello_mt.ps
>C:\yandy\TEXINPUT\hello_mt.dvi
>ERROR: Can't make output file `C:\yandy\TEXINPUT\hello_mt.ps' (wb)
>`C:\yandy\TEXINPUT\hello_mt.ps': Permission denied
> while opening output file while opening output file
>DONE
>
>The directory is not write-protected, and there is no such PS
>file there to
>begin with. After this, there is an empty (0 bytes) file
>"hello_mt.ps" in
>the directory. The "permission denied" thing makes no sense to me.
>
>
>Attempt 2.
>Instead of a printer, I set the destination to Acrobat
>Distiller. "Print to
>file" and "Use DVIPSONE" are still   turned on. There are no
>error messages
>but the newly created "hello_mt.ps" is empty (0 bytes).
>
>
>Attempt 3.
>Set the destination to Acrobat PDFWriter. "Print to file" is
>still turned
>on. "Use DVIPSONE" gets turned off when I choose the
>PDFWriter, so I leave
>it off. This produces still an empty PS file. There is a PDF
>created and
>it's almost correct, but some elements are garbled. E.g.
>"difficult" becomes
>"dif?cult", "first" becomes "?rst", "flight" becomes "?ight",
>"afflicts"
>becomes "af?icts", "efflux" becomes "ef?ux", "souffles"
>becomes "souf?es",
>and "file" is displayed as "?le".
>
>
>Would you have any ideas why do I have these effects: the
>bogus "permission
>denied" error, the zero size PS file and the garbled "fl" and
>"fi" letter
>combinations (not in all words, though; e.g. "differently" comes out
>correctly)
>
>Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
>Radek
>
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