Problems with production of PS and PDF files

[Radek.Zakrzewski at goodrich.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. A. Cruickshank [mailto:d.cruickshank at sheffield.ac.uk]
> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 11:50 AM
> To: Techsupport at yandy.com
> Subject: Re: Problems with production of PS and PDF files
>
>
> 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.

David,

How should I check if fonts were installed properly? When I put the
installation CD, the right-click pop-up menu has two options for installing
ATM and fonts for NT and for 95/98, and an option to install fonts for 2000
Pro. I chose that option, and it ran almost instantaneously, with no screen
messages about what got installed or where.

I am a little confused about the ATM issue. Reame.txt specifically says:

"Windows 2000 Professional:
W2K has built in support for Type 1 fonts. Do *not* install
ATM.  Instead, use the "Font Installation for W2K" menu
item obtained by right clicking on the CD icon."

If I install it, am I in danger of screwing something else up on my machine
that is not reversible through un-installing ATM?

Radek

> 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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