[yandytex] [WinEdt] ps2pdf not working with YandY TeX configuration

[J. R. Setti]

Murray,

I also "translated" my Y&Y TeX installation to another computer the same way
you did and
found WinEDT acting strangely. Further investigation showed that the problem
was  in
the way WinEDT set some paths up -- stuff like '%b\Exec\ps2pdf.edt' in
winedt.ini.
I tried to fix the paths by hand, editing the winedt.ini file,  without any
success.
Apparently, WinEDT sets these paths in the registry during its installation
procedure
and the only way to fix them was to install WinEDT over the "translated"
one,
assigning the right paths when requested by the installation.

Perhaps this would be the explanation for the strange behaviors you are
finding...

--jrs.

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
wrote:

> Well, adding to the Windows environment variable path the path to the gs
> bin directory seems to have fixed this.
>
> But why?  BEFORE I added that to the path, the WinEdt Configuration
> Wizard's Diagnosis already showed the correct path to gswin32c.exe:
>
>   GS-Bin: (gswin32c.exe): OK*
>   D:\WP\gs\gs8.61\bin\gswin32c.exe
>
> And the WinEdt Execution Modes - YandY TeX dialog's Ghostscript tab also
> already showed the correct GS Bin folder.
>
> Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> > With an installation of WinEdt current version on a new PC, where I
> > copied all my settings from the old PC, ps2pdf is not working in the
> > YandY TeX configuration.  "Error starting ps2pdf. See WinEdt's TeX
> > Configuration Wizard for detailed diagnosis of your TeX system."
> >
> > All I find that's possibly relevant in the WinEdt Configuration Wizard >
> >  Diagnosis is:
> >
> >   AcroRead: OK (REG)
> >   "D:\WP\Adobe\Acrobat 8.0\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe"
> >   D:\WP\Adobe\ACROBA~1.0\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe
> >
> > Of course I do have MiKTeX (2.7) and Acrobat Professional 8.
> >
> > The menu macro for ps2pdf is: Exe('%b\Exec\ps2pdf.edt');
> >
> > Should there be some setting for the Acrobat DISTILLER?
> >
> > What's wrong?  How do I fix it?
> >
>
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Universidade de São Paulo 400 Av. Trabalhador São-carlense
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