Re: [MiKTeX] MiKTeX 2.7 problem with Yap on Windows XP
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From: Alan R. <ri...@ec...> - 2008-04-18 14:14:39
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B.D. Hall wrote: > I have just installed MikTeX 2.7 on a new laptop running XP. I find > that I cannot use Yap to visualise DVI files that need to be handled > as PostScript. Yap crashes and gives me a message like: > > --------------------------------- > MiKTeX Problem Report > Message: The page could not be rendered. > Data: Error: /undefined in ,V50iZSsu > Operand stack: > 55380987 39158274 2000 600 600 (C:Documents and > Settings\b.hallMy DocumentsMy > ProjectsConferencesAMCTMAMCTM2008Presentation\)\n@start /Fa 133[66 > > [snip] > > Now, the problem seems to be that the path to the file has had most > of the '\' removed. It should read "C:\Documents and > Settings\b.hall\My Documents\My > Projects\Conferences\AMCTM\AMCTM2008\Presentation\". In my experience, LaTeX and friends do not play well with absolute path names, at least not in Windows. Furthermore, IF there's a way to make such a path name work, it will almost certainly be with forward slashes, not backslashes. Your luck will probably vary when it comes to file and directory names with spaces in them -- as far as I can tell, a command like \includegraphics does not deal with them well at all (though I haven't checked the docs on this). I suggest putting any files you wish to include in your document into either the same directory as your document or a subdirectory whose name contains no spaces. Alan |