DVI previewer gone haywire (fwd)

[Ganz, Frank, SV USA]

Hi Sue,

What system are you running on? If it's Windows XP, you could do a system restore.

I doubt LastError=No font files is meaningful. For one, you get the error when you process a page that doesn't exist. Does LastErrorTime= coincide with the time of the incident?

If you want to check the status of the fonts, you could go to the command prompt and type

dir *.pf*

You will then get both *.pfb and *.pfm files. When you select the fonts folder in Windows it usally gives you just one of the font file types.

If you decide to try re-installing you can cutomize the uninstall process. See if it help you select just components. My concern would be to avoid you needing to update LaTeX to its current release unless you are still working with the release that came with Y&Y's installation CD.

Frank

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Christina Thiele [mailto:cthiele at CCS.CARLETON.CA]
>Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 12:59 PM
>To: YANDYTEX at LISTS.UCC.IE
>Subject: Re: DVI previewer gone haywire (fwd)
>
>
>Didn't notice that my reply was only going to Sue. Here's what I'd
>sent her.
>
>Ch.
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>Forwarded message:
>> From cthiele Mon Nov  8 12:58:22 2004
>> Subject: Re: [YANDYTEX] DVI previewer gone haywire
>> To: jcm at lms.ac.uk
>> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 12:58:22 -0500 (EST)
>> In-Reply-To: <no.id> from "LMS journals" at Nov 08, 2004 05:59:43 PM
>> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL5]
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>> LMS journals writes:
>> >
>> > Thanks to all, for various helpful messages
>> >
>> > I had a look at Dviwindo.ini, and right at the end it has
>an error message:
>> > LastError=No font files
>> > LastErrorTime=...
>> >
>> > As far as I can tell, the font files are all in Winnt,
>where they belong. I
>> > tried taking an old dviwindo.ini and saving that as the
>current one (yes, I
>> > have copied the existing one else where as backup), but
>that doesn't seem to
>> > help.  That does seem to have the right things in the Default and
>> > SourceDefaults lines.
>>
>> Hi there, Sue ... ;-) When you made the changes, did you re-install
>> the fonts? I'm sorry if that's off the mark --I don't remember right
>> now if you said you'd done that already or not ... Also, are the path
>> names the same for all the bits and pieces that dviwindo lists?
>>
>> > If I uninstall, what will happen to any additional style
>files that I have
>> > added to what was in the original installation?  Sorry to
>ask simple
>>
>> When I did an uninstall on my laptop (I was going from
>Y&YTeX v.2.1 to
>> 2.2.3, and nervous as hell abou tit!), I noticed a lot of files were
>> still in my c:\yandy tree. When I looked them more closely,
>I began to
>> notice that they were newer files -- add-ons and upgrades I'd
>> introduced after the initial installation. So I _think_ the answer is
>> that anything _not_ part of the original installation is left in
>> place. I believe someone once (or twice ;-) )explained to me that,
>> during installation, there's a file somewhere that receives all the
>> info on what's been installed. And so I think that when that
>program's
>> uninstalled, the computer refers back to the original listing, and
>> leaves behind anything not on that listing. Which is rather nice and
>> kind and thoughtful and other things which I'd not have thought I'd
>> say about a PC and its OS ... ;-))
>>
>> Now, what happens when a new Y&YTeX is installed into that c:\yandy
>> tree ... I'm not sure. I believe I just copied out all the files left
>> behind after my uninstall into some other folder, precisely because I
>> wasn't sure what would happen if I left them there, and then
>installed
>> the new version into the same folder name ... but if the
>uninstall was
>> so kind as to leave them behind, perhaps the reinstall ignores their
>> presence -- unless it actually includes it or has a more recent
>> version, in which case, perhaps a dialog box pops up to say
>> such-and-such a file already exists ... which would be a
>kind and nice
>> thing to also do, right? ;-)) Dunno for sure.
>>
>> > questions -- I'm not technical... I just use the stuff
>>
>> Hear hear!
>>
>> > Sue
>> >
>> > ...
>>
>> Ch.
>>
>>
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