X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 10:44:25 +0200 (MET DST) From: Angelo Graziosi To: dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: 'Fatal format file error; I'm stymied' Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Dave Korn wrote: > I had this problem just yesterday! And I found a solution, at least for > etex.fmt. Hi Dave, I have tried that and it works fine for etex! but not for PDFTEX! I have followed exactly the same similar steps: rm /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex.fmt rm ~/.texmf/var/web2c/pdftex.fmt pdftex //end This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a (Web2C 7.5.4) file:line:error style messages enabled. %&-line parsing enabled. kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdftex.fmt fmtutil: running `pdfetex -ini -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdftex.ini' ... This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) (INITEX) file:line:error style messages enabled. %&-line parsing enabled. (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/cp227.tcx) entering extended mode (/usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/config/pdftex.ini (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex Preloading the plain format: codes, registers, parameters, fonts, more fonts, macros, math definitions, output routines, hyphenation (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex)) ) Beginning to dump on file pdftex.fmt (format=pdftex 2007.4.2) 2525 strings of total length 36463 4991 memory locations dumped; current usage is 110&4878 1056 multiletter control sequences \font\nullfont=nullfont \font\tenrm=cmr10 ..... \font\preloaded=cmtt10 at 14.4pt \font\preloaded=cmssbx10 at 14.4pt \font\preloaded=manfnt 14787 words of font info for 50 preloaded fonts 14 hyphenation exceptions Hyphenation trie of length 6075 has 181 ops out of 35111 181 for language 0 No pages of output. Transcript written on pdftex.log. fmtutil: /home/Angelo/.texmf/var/web2c/pdftex.fmt installed. ---! /home/Angelo/.texmf/var/web2c/pdftex.fmt was written by pdfetex (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) cd ~/.texmf/var/web2c/ rm pdftex.fmt I have adapted following the above output: pdftex -ini -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdftex.ini but it says: This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a (Web2C 7.5.4) (INITEX) file:line:error style messages enabled. %&-line parsing enabled. (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/cp227.tcx) ! I can't find file `*pdftex.ini'. <*> *pdftex.ini Please type another input file name: And now ? Thanks, Angelo. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/