Discussion:
[TXC-Users] pdf yet again
Polina Minkovski
2006-08-06 01:49:26 UTC
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sorry to ask this question yet again...I'm really not familiar enough with the ins of TeXnic Center to fix this on my own...

I want to build a PDF output...and every single time it says that it can't find the document or that it's damaged and that it cannot execute the command...
the error message says that I haven't finished building the pdf output...when it's identical to ones i've build prior...any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Polina



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John Williams
2006-08-18 19:01:32 UTC
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Post by Polina Minkovski
sorry to ask this question yet again...I'm really not familiar
enough with the ins of TeXnic Center to fix this on my own...
Post by Polina Minkovski
I want to build a PDF output...and every single time it says that
it can't find the document or that it's damaged and that it cannot
execute the command...
Post by Polina Minkovski
the error message says that I haven't finished building the pdf
output...when it's identical to ones i've build prior...any ideas?
Post by Polina Minkovski
Thanks in advance
Polina
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Polina--
This happens after you update the Adobe Reader and/or TeXnic Center.
To clear it up, Open TexNic Center and go the Build->Define Output
profiles menu (Alt-F7 is the hot key), then rebuild the latex to pdf
output profile. You can run the wizard to do this for you
automatically. Once I had new profiles, the problem disappeared for
me. Hope this helps.
Polina Minkovski
2006-08-24 13:01:32 UTC
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can anyone help me to understsand what the error message "transcript written to ___.log" means? How can I 'write the transcript' to '.aux' or to '.tex'....

Also...I'm having trouble building output for my tex files in either DVI or PDF....DVI viewer says the file/directory doesn't exist and PDF says that the file is damaged.
This all happens after I input the bibliography (bibtex) or the images in pdf format... I've tried redefining the output profiles through the wizard and manually - nothing is working.

any help would be appreciated :)

Polina


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Stephan Klumpp
2006-08-27 03:42:15 UTC
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Dear Polina,
Post by Polina Minkovski
can anyone help me to understsand what the error message "transcript
written to ___.log" means? How can I 'write the transcript' to '.aux'
or to '.tex'....
Also...I'm having trouble building output for my tex files in either
DVI or PDF....DVI viewer says the file/directory doesn't exist and PDF
says that the file is damaged.
This all happens after I input the bibliography (bibtex) or the images
in pdf format... I've tried redefining the output profiles through the
wizard and manually - nothing is working.
Sounds as your dvi or pdf is not build at all. And this can have a lot
of reasons.
Can you please send a minimal example how you include your bibtex file
and one of your pdf pictures?

Greetings ...

Stephan
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Polina Minkovski
2006-08-27 15:38:22 UTC
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Dear Stephan,

As for inserting images - (I've done this for a few articles, and had no problems...and then all of a sudden it started with error messages - could it have anything to do with whether or not the images are in metric?)

\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[height=3.12in, width=3.4in]{image101.pdf}
\label{Figure F2. Real wage development for industrial workers, 1953 -- 2002}
\end{figure}

Bibliography -->
At the end of the document....

\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{Sofia Sandgren}


\end{document}
....
---> Bibliography references are in a .tex and a .bib file...but i'm not quite sure about the .aux....I believe you need an auxiliary file for bibtex to work properly??? I'm just a bit confused, because doing part of a document - the references worked just fine, but when the entire document was altered to include '/cite{}' the error messages were infinite.

Any help would be greatly appreciated :)
thanks

Polina





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Alain Delmotte
2006-08-27 19:43:20 UTC
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Hi!
Post by Polina Minkovski
Dear Stephan,
As for inserting images - (I've done this for a few articles, and had
no problems...and then all of a sudden it started with error messages
- could it have anything to do with whether or not the images are in
metric?)
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[height=3.12in, width=3.4in]{image101.pdf}
\label{Figure F2. Real wage development for industrial workers, 1953 -- 2002}
\end{figure}
Do not mix \label and \caption!!
It looks like what you show as argument of \label is more a caption and
you do not need to put Figure F2, this is automatically included by
LaTeX; the label is used for use in conjonction with \ref, so:

\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[height=3.12in, width=3.4in]{image101.pdf}
\caption{Real wage development for industrial workers, 1953 -- 2002}
\label{realwage}
%refered to somewhere by \ref{realwage} or \refpage{realwage}
\end{figure}
Post by Polina Minkovski
Bibliography -->
At the end of the document....
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{Sofia Sandgren}
See comment of Stephan for the name!
Post by Polina Minkovski
\end{document}
....
---> Bibliography references are in a .tex and a .bib file...but i'm
not quite sure about the .aux....I believe you need an auxiliary file
for bibtex to work properly??? I'm just a bit confused, because doing
part of a document - the references worked just fine, but when the
entire document was altered to include '/cite{}' the error messages
were infinite.
Do you use /cite{} or \cite{}?

In the LaTeX file (.tex) you have the \cite, \bibliographystyle{} and
\bibliography{}
In the .bib the references as @book{xyz, author ="Polina", tilte =.....
.aux are created automatically and contains information for LaTeX to
build the crossreferences,...
.toc contains the info to build the table of contents,
.log, which is partly shown in the output window at the bottom of
TeXnicCenter contains all messages of LaTeX, telling what it is doing,
whay it can not do (errors), and so on. If you want to send an e-mail
with part of the error messages, open that file and copy/paste

When using BibTeX, .bbl and .blg files are created, containing the
information to create the bibliography, but *do not forget to compile at
least 3 times* to allow 1) LaTeX to write the info, 2) Bibtex to find
all infos from the .bib file, sort it and create the bibliography and 3)
LaTeX to include the bibliography in the text and have correct page
numbering. Often, after the first compilation you get many, many
warnings which disappear during the second and third compilations.

Regards,

Alain Delmotte
lionel flandin
2006-08-27 23:36:38 UTC
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I think, I've seen this problem before, kinda scarry,
the only way to make the thing work back when it starts to go wild with a very large document is :

1/ to get rid of the quotations
\renewcommand{\cite}[1]{}

2/ To launch the compil and find out were it actually stops.
Generally, the figure's name is wrong, the figure's missing or something funny like that is going on.

3/to restart to quote.

Hope this helps, I donno much more,

Lionel

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Hi!
Post by Polina Minkovski
Dear Stephan,
As for inserting images - (I've done this for a few articles, and had
no problems...and then all of a sudden it started with error messages
- could it have anything to do with whether or not the images are in
metric?)
\begin{figure} [htbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[ height=3. 12in, width=3.4in] {image101. pdf}
\label{Figure F2. Real wage development for industrial workers, 1953 -- 2002}
\end{figure}
Do not mix \label and \caption!!
It looks like what you show as argument of \label is more a caption and
you do not need to put Figure F2, this is automatically included by
LaTeX; the label is used for use in conjonction with \ref, so:

\begin{figure} [htbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[ height=3. 12in, width=3.4in] {image101. pdf}
\caption{Real wage development for industrial workers, 1953 -- 2002}
\label{realwage}
%refered to somewhere by \ref{realwage} or \refpage{realwage}
\end{figure}
Post by Polina Minkovski
Bibliography -->
At the end of the document....
\bibliographystyle{ plain}
\bibliography{ Sofia Sandgren}
See comment of Stephan for the name!
Post by Polina Minkovski
\end{document}
....
---> Bibliography references are in a .tex and a .bib file...but i'm
not quite sure about the .aux....I believe you need an auxiliary file
for bibtex to work properly??? I'm just a bit confused, because doing
part of a document - the references worked just fine, but when the
entire document was altered to include '/cite{}' the error messages
were infinite.
Do you use /cite{} or \cite{}?

In the LaTeX file (.tex) you have the \cite, \bibliographystyle{ } and
\bibliography{ }
In the .bib the references as @book{xyz, author ="Polina", tilte =.....
.aux are created automatically and contains information for LaTeX to
build the crossreferences, ...
.toc contains the info to build the table of contents,
.log, which is partly shown in the output window at the bottom of
TeXnicCenter contains all messages of LaTeX, telling what it is doing,
whay it can not do (errors), and so on. If you want to send an e-mail
with part of the error messages, open that file and copy/paste

When using BibTeX, .bbl and .blg files are created, containing the
information to create the bibliography, but *do not forget to compile at
least 3 times* to allow 1) LaTeX to write the info, 2) Bibtex to find
all infos from the .bib file, sort it and create the bibliography and 3)
LaTeX to include the bibliography in the text and have correct page
numbering. Often, after the first compilation you get many, many
warnings which disappear during the second and third compilations.

Regards,

Alain Delmotte
Polina Minkovski
2006-08-28 17:51:29 UTC
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Alain and Stephane - thank you for the tips...unfortunately nothing is working.... I'm getting the error message
"Please type in input file {no extension} -- bibtex.exe: Bad file descriptor...

it's odd, no? I have a bibfile but it seems like it won't read it....

anything else I can do?

Thanks :)

Polina

Alain Delmotte <esperanto-***@public.gmane.org> wrote:
Hi!
Post by Polina Minkovski
Dear Stephan,
As for inserting images - (I've done this for a few articles, and had
no problems...and then all of a sudden it started with error messages
- could it have anything to do with whether or not the images are in
metric?)
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[height=3.12in, width=3.4in]{image101.pdf}
\label{Figure F2. Real wage development for industrial workers, 1953 -- 2002}
\end{figure}
Do not mix \label and \caption!!
It looks like what you show as argument of \label is more a caption and
you do not need to put Figure F2, this is automatically included by
LaTeX; the label is used for use in conjonction with \ref, so:

\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[height=3.12in, width=3.4in]{image101.pdf}
\caption{Real wage development for industrial workers, 1953 -- 2002}
\label{realwage}
%refered to somewhere by \ref{realwage} or \refpage{realwage}
\end{figure}
Post by Polina Minkovski
Bibliography -->
At the end of the document....
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{Sofia Sandgren}
See comment of Stephan for the name!
Post by Polina Minkovski
\end{document}
....
---> Bibliography references are in a .tex and a .bib file...but i'm
not quite sure about the .aux....I believe you need an auxiliary file
for bibtex to work properly??? I'm just a bit confused, because doing
part of a document - the references worked just fine, but when the
entire document was altered to include '/cite{}' the error messages
were infinite.
Do you use /cite{} or \cite{}?

In the LaTeX file (.tex) you have the \cite, \bibliographystyle{} and
\bibliography{}
In the .bib the references as @book{xyz, author ="Polina", tilte =.....
.aux are created automatically and contains information for LaTeX to
build the crossreferences,...
.toc contains the info to build the table of contents,
.log, which is partly shown in the output window at the bottom of
TeXnicCenter contains all messages of LaTeX, telling what it is doing,
whay it can not do (errors), and so on. If you want to send an e-mail
with part of the error messages, open that file and copy/paste

When using BibTeX, .bbl and .blg files are created, containing the
information to create the bibliography, but *do not forget to compile at
least 3 times* to allow 1) LaTeX to write the info, 2) Bibtex to find
all infos from the .bib file, sort it and create the bibliography and 3)
LaTeX to include the bibliography in the text and have correct page
numbering. Often, after the first compilation you get many, many
warnings which disappear during the second and third compilations.

Regards,

Alain Delmotte






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Kristof Möller
2006-08-28 19:31:02 UTC
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Hi!

Concerning the error-message:
"Please type in input file {no extension} -- bibtex.exe: Bad file
descriptor..."

please be sure that bibtex.exe is working on your main-latex-file,
the one that includes \begin{document} ... \end{document}, and not on
your .bib-file!
(argument in the texniccenter-building-profile for bibtex.exe: "%bm")

also be sure that your bibliography-file is in the same directory
(only the one with the .bib-ending is needed)

you can verify the entries of your bib-file with the free BibTeX-manager
JABREF
(http://jabref.sourceforge.net)

Greetings
Kris
Post by Polina Minkovski
Alain and Stephane - thank you for the tips...unfortunately nothing is
working.... I'm getting the error message
"Please type in input file {no extension} -- bibtex.exe: Bad file descriptor...
it's odd, no? I have a bibfile but it seems like it won't read it....
anything else I can do?
Thanks :)
Polina
Hi!
Post by Polina Minkovski
Dear Stephan,
As for inserting images - (I've done this for a few articles,
and had
Post by Polina Minkovski
no problems...and then all of a sudden it started with error
messages
Post by Polina Minkovski
- could it have anything to do with whether or not the images
are in
Post by Polina Minkovski
metric?)
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[height=3.12in, width=3.4in]{image101.pdf}
\label{Figure F2. Real wage development for industrial workers,
1953
Post by Polina Minkovski
-- 2002}
\end{figure}
Do not mix \label and \caption!!
It looks like what you show as argument of \label is more a caption and
you do not need to put Figure F2, this is automatically included by
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[height=3.12in, width=3.4in]{image101.pdf}
\caption{Real wage development for industrial workers, 1953 -- 2002}
\label{realwage}
%refered to somewhere by \ref{realwage} or \refpage{realwage}
\end{figure}
Post by Polina Minkovski
Bibliography -->
At the end of the document....
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{Sofia Sandgren}
See comment of Stephan for the name!
Post by Polina Minkovski
\end{document}
....
---> Bibliography references are in a .tex and a .bib file...but
i'm
Post by Polina Minkovski
not quite sure about the .aux....I believe you need an auxiliary
file
Post by Polina Minkovski
for bibtex to work properly??? I'm just a bit confused, because
doing
Post by Polina Minkovski
part of a document - the references worked just fine, but when the
entire document was altered to include '/cite{}' the error messages
were infinite.
Do you use /cite{} or \cite{}?
In the LaTeX file (.tex) you have the \cite, \bibliographystyle{} and
\bibliography{}
.aux are created automatically and contains information for LaTeX to
build the crossreferences,...
.toc contains the info to build the table of contents,
.log, which is partly shown in the output window at the bottom of
TeXnicCenter contains all messages of LaTeX, telling what it is doing,
whay it can not do (errors), and so on. If you want to send an e-mail
with part of the error messages, open that file and copy/paste
When using BibTeX, .bbl and .blg files are created, containing the
information to create the bibliography, but *do not forget to compile at
least 3 times* to allow 1) LaTeX to write the info, 2) Bibtex to find
all infos from the .bib file, sort it and create the bibliography and 3)
LaTeX to include the bibliography in the text and have correct page
numbering. Often, after the first compilation you get many, many
warnings which disappear during the second and third compilations.
Regards,
Alain Delmotte
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Stephan Klumpp
2006-08-27 18:41:50 UTC
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Dear Polina,
Post by Polina Minkovski
could it have anything to do with whether or not the images are in
metric?
No, that shoudn't be a reason.
Also, I can't find an error in the code you are using. So I have to
suggestions. First, which package for inserting graphics do you use?
Take a look that is is really graphicx.
Second, even if pdflatex should process pdf pictures with ease, try to
insert the same picture as jpg. Maybe this will help. I confess it is
not really a solution, but hopefully a working work.around.
Post by Polina Minkovski
\bibliography{Sofia Sandgren}
Try using a filename with no space between the words. I don't think
latex can handle such a file name.
Post by Polina Minkovski
---> Bibliography references are in a .tex and a .bib file...but i'm
not quite sure about the .aux....I believe you need an auxiliary file
for bibtex to work properly???
Normally tex files contain the latex code for describing documents. Bib
files contain the database informations about your references. The
syntax for that you can look up in the bibtex manual. I don't think you
should mix these two file types. If you like to insert two different
bibtex files seperate them with a comma in \bibliography.
The aux file is generated by latex or pdflatex and contains a lot of
data about your document, especially information where to place
references and citations. Normally you don't have to care about this
kind of files.

Hope this will help you!

Stephan
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*Institut für Physik *
*Universität Kassel *
*Heinrich-Plett-Str. 40*
*D-34132 Kassel *

*Tel.: +49 (0561) 804 4198 *
*Fax: +49 (0561) 804 4150 *

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Stephan Klumpp
2006-08-28 18:36:02 UTC
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Dear Polina,
Post by Polina Minkovski
it's odd, no? I have a bibfile but it seems like it won't read it....
well, this is really odd.
But it is complicated to find a solution and not knowing the input files.
You have already send me your code. So, now, please send me one of your
pdf pictures and your bibtex file to my email address
stephan.klumpp-***@public.gmane.org .
I will have a look at the files. Maybe I will be able to find the problem.

Greetings ...

Stephan
*__________________________________________________________________*
*Dipl.-Phys. Stephan Klumpp *
*Institut für Physik *
*Universität Kassel *
*Heinrich-Plett-Str. 40*
*D-34132 Kassel *

*Tel.: +49 (0561) 804 4198 *
*Fax: +49 (0561) 804 4150 *

*mailto: Stephan.Klumpp-***@public.gmane.org
<mailto:Stephan.Klumpp-***@public.gmane.org>*
* *
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* *
*http://www.physik.uni-kassel.de/ehresmann/*
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