Problems with production of PS and PDF files

[D. A. Cruickshank]

Radek,

I had a similar problem when updating YandY 2.2 from
Win 98 to XP: TeX->DVI worked fine, but DVIPSONE
couldn't convert DVI to PostScript -- it just produced
an empty (0 bytes) .ps file.

I solved the problem by installing Adobe Type Manager
Light 4.1 -- I'm not 100% sure why this worked, but I
think the problem was that DVIPSONE couldn't find the
fonts and ATM was able to help.

This advice comes with two provisos:
1. are you sure your fonts were installed correctly
(i.e. before yandytex)?  Install ATM only after you
have installed the fonts and the YandY system.
2. I think there have been posts recently about
problems caused by ATM Lite interfering with
(keyboard?) drivers.  I've had no problems so far on
Win XP Pro, but we wary.  It might be worth paying for
ATM Delux.

Hope this helps.

David.



 --- Radek.Zakrzewski at goodrich.com a écrit : > 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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