Problems with production of PS and PDF files

Tue Jan 20 12:07:31 CET 2004

Hey,

> How should I check if fonts were installed properly?

In your control panel, there will be a `fonts' icon [which will open the
folder C:\windows\fonts].  Have a look to see whether there are CM
fonts there (e.g. CMMI10) or any others that should have come with
YandY (e.g. MathTime MTMI).  Double click to see a sample.

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

As I understand it, as long as the installation of ATM happens after
the fonts and YandY have been installed, there should be no
problem.  In practical terms, DVIPSONE didn't work for me before I
installed ATM Light 4.1, but it works now and I've had no other
problems [though this is with Win XP].

Does any one else know better?  I'm happy to be contradicted!

David.

From:           	Radek.Zakrzewski at goodrich.com
To:             	Techsupport at yandy.com
Subject:        	RE: Problems with production of PS and PDF files
Date sent:      	Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:38:12 -0500
Send reply to:  	Techsupport at yandy.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
> > >
> > > -----
> > > Radoslaw R. Zakrzewski
> > > Goodrich Corporation, Fuel and Utility Systems
> > > 100 Panton Road, Vergennes, VT 05491, USA
> > > Phone: (802) 877 4757, Fax: 802-877-4444
> > > E-mail: radek.zakrzewski at goodrich.com
> > > -----
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >

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