[texhax] Technical question

[Uwe Ziegenhagen]

2011/3/2 Dr A K Hannaby <keith.hannaby at mathshelp.com>

>  Dear Tug
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> I am running AmsBook under MiKTeX 2.9 which is doing the job excellently.
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> Creating the .dvi file is not a problem.
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> But when I try to create a pdf file, I get the error message:
> [DocOpen("%bm.pdf")][DocOpen("Open("%bm.pdf")] ... "Cannot execute the
> command".
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> Three phrases like of the kind:
> [DocOpen("%bm.pdf")][DocOpen("Open("%bm.pdf")] appear by default in the
> setting up boxes when setting up the output formats: dvi, pdf and PS.
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> If these are phrases are not precise, how do I figure exactly what they
> should be?
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> Can you confirm whether or not I need Adobe Acrobat to enable pdf files to
> be created. [A YES or NO answer if possible, because I would need to buy
> it.]
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> Yours
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> Keith
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> Message sent by Dr A K Hannaby
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How exactly are you calling LaTeX? Are you using some kind of editor? Look,
if there is a way to switch to pdfLaTeX.

The error indicates the PDF file was not generated.

You definitely do not need to buy Acrobat, pdfLaTeX.exe generates PDFs
directly.

Uwe

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