Re: [MiKTeX] MikTeX2.9 and eps

[Ulrike F. <li...@ni...>]

Am Tue, 16 Dec 2014 09:14:08 +0100 schrieb Ian CAMPBELL:

> This is becoming ludicrous.
> 
> I reinstalled 2.9 in Program Files, next to WinEdit, so as to simplify 
> things, and updated the paths from WinEdit.
> For some reason now it cannot compile at all.
> When I try to compile using the WinEdit Textify option which is what I 
> am used to,

Always di the first tests with a minimal hello-world-document and
with pdflatex and/or latex. Also when you run into problesm try to
compile on the command line to check if the configuration of the
editor is wrong or the tex system.

> I get endless comments.
> These start with " texcase.sty not found". As far as I can see there is 
> no textcase.sty file in my version of 2.9.

It is in mine
D:\MiKTeX2.9\tex\latex\textcase\textcase.sty
Package: textcase 2004/10/07 v0.07 Text only upper/lower case
changing (DPC)

> Then "natbib.sty 2007/02/05 available, version 2009/11/07 requested". 
> How do I get this version ?´

My miktex has this natbib version

D:\MiKTeX2.9\tex\latex\natbib\natbib.sty 
Package: natbib 2010/09/13 8.31b 


> Then I am told to install an endless list of files, such as 
> infwarerr.sty, grfext.sty, kvdefinekeys.sty, . . . . .

Well then install them. If you installed only the basic miktex it is
quite possible that some packages are missing.  miktex has an
on-the-fly installer, let it do the work. Start to worry only if
this installations fail. 


> which were not needed before, "package.color no driver specified", 
> "special.map not found"
> and so on. What has happened ?

Sorry but how should we know? It is your system. Please credit the
maintainer of miktex and the other users some basic intelligence: If
the system wouldn't work at all someone would have noticed. So it is
something on *your* system that is wrong. 

It doesn't make sense to tell us that you install the program
*somewhere* and adjusted *some* pathes. 

It is useless to quote *some* unspecific error messages. TeX &
friends produce more exact log-files and terminal messages than
that. 

So try to be a bit more specific. 

> I am sending you my document and an eps figure so you can test for 
> yourself. 

The eps-file has been stripped. You must put it somewhere for
download. Apart from this you example compiles without problems. 


-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/