Problems with production of PS and PDF files

[Radek.Zakrzewski at goodrich.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Ganz [mailto:fganz at springer-ny.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 3:15 PM
> To: Techsupport at yandy.com
> Subject: RE: Problems with production of PS and PDF files
>
>
> 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?

Frank,

First of all thanks for the reply.

I don't want to print to a printer - I want to produce a PS file. Anyway, I
choose one of the Postscript printers on our network that I know is on, and
then check the "Print to file" box - at that moment the status of the
printer shouldn't matter. Or am I wrong here?

>
> 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 *

I tried this. I add a line that says:
DVIPSONE TO FILE|F11=C:\YANDY\DVIPSONE\DVIPSONE.BAT -v -l=letter *

Using this option produces the following text from dvipsone

Printing directly from DVIPSONE.DLL
DVIPSONE 2.2.4  2000 Jul 12 22:47:02 SN 4655
Copyright (C) 1990--2000, Y&Y, Inc.  http://www.YandY.com

Command:
C:\YANDY\DVIPSONE\DVIPSONE.BAT -v -l=letter hello_mt
Processing DVI file hello_mt.dvi (to hello_mt.ps)
TeX output 2004.01.16:1431
DONE

But the "hello_mt.ps" is still empty - it has zero bytes! Do you have any
suggestions why?

Radek






>
> 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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> >Radoslaw R. Zakrzewski
> >Goodrich Corporation, Fuel and Utility Systems
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