[XeTeX] Broken XeTeX

[John Was]

Many thanks for the info - I was beginning to have nightmares about a 
corrupt registry and other nasties.  Of course, I broke the golden rule with 
Windows that one should set a restoration point before adding any new 
software.  One learns through suffering, as Aeschylus said.


John


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zdenek Wagner" <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
To: "XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion." <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: 11 June 2013 15:30
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX


2013/6/11 John Was <john.was at ntlworld.com>:
> Hello
>
> Thanks for the advice - I will investigate, but may have to reinstall (or
> install an updated version, which I guess I ought to as 2009 seems a long
> way off now).  TL Manager isn't working either so it looks as if something
> rather nasty has happened!
>
TL manager for version 2009 ceased to work in the mid of 2010, it is
intended behaviour. Now TL 2012 is frozen forever and 2013 will be
released soon.

> Best wishes
>
>
> John
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zdenek Wagner" 
> <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
> To: "XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion." <xetex at tug.org>
> Sent: 11 June 2013 14:56
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX
>
>
>
> I just add an explanation. XeTeX builds a xdv file in memory and sends
> it via a pipe to xdvipdfmx. If xdvipdfmx disappears from your
> computer, you get this error message It is sufficient to get just
> xdvipdfmx.exe unless other files disappeared too.
>
> As a side note, I successfully use epubreader plugin for firefox,
> there is nothing to install in a special way and it is platform
> independent and free.
>
> 2013/6/11 Arthur Reutenauer <arthur.reutenauer at normalesup.org>:
>>
>>   File associations is unlikely to be your problem here: as the message
>> says, xdvipdfmx can't be found.  It may be a path problem, or worse; is
>> the xdvipdfmx program at least still present on your system?  It should
>> be in the same directory as XeTeX.
>>
>>         Arthur
>>
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