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Re: Failure in conversion to pdf/ps/dvi
- To: Gary Stainburn <gary dot stainburn at ringways dot co dot uk>, docbook-tools-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Failure in conversion to pdf/ps/dvi
- From: howard mann <howardm at xmission dot com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 23:41:38 -0700
- References: <01BF31B9.58282540@garys.ringways.co.uk>
Gary Stainburn wrote:
>
> This happened to me when I installed the RH6.0 rpms onto a RH5.2 system. To fix it I removed the 6.0 and installed the 5.2 rpms available from the same place. I believe the problems were library related.
>
> Also, if you do use the RH5.2 rpms, you will have to mess about with texmf.cnf (I think)
Howard writes on 11/19/99 :
Thanks for the reply, but I do not know what " texmf.cnf" is :-(
I obtained the tools as binary RPM's from :
ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/docbook-tools/docware/
where there are "red-hat-5/" and "RPMS" directories. I have Red Hat 5.0.
Can you or anyone else provide more guidance relative to the error
messages you see below ?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard Mann [SMTP:howardm@xmission.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 12:02 PM
> To: docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Failure in conversion to pdf/ps/dvi
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to convert my .sgml document to these other formats.
>
> I have the DocBook tools from Cygnus:
>
> jade-1.2.1-3
> jadetex-2.7-0
> sgml-common-0.1-2
> docbook-3.1-5
> stylesheets-0.10-2
>
> I also have tetex-0.9-6
>
> I get the following error messages:
>
> howardm:~/public_html/HOWTO$db2pdf tronlineDOC.sgml
> Using stylesheet: "/usr/lib/sgml/stylesheets/cygnus-both.dsl"
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-0.12h (Web2C 7.2)
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
>
> howardm:~/public_html/HOWTO$db2ps tronlineDOC.sgml
> Using stylesheet: "/usr/lib/sgml/stylesheets/cygnus-both.dsl"
> OUTPUT FILE NAME IS tronlineDOC.dvi
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.2)
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
> This is dvips(k) 5.78 Copyright 1998 Radical Eye Software
> (www.rad icaleye.com)
> dvips: ! DVI file can't be opened.
>
> howardm:~/public_html/HOWTO$db2dvi tronlineDOC.sgml
> Using stylesheet: "/usr/lib/sgml/stylesheets/cygnus-both.dsl"
> OUTPUT FILE NAME IS tronlineDOC.dvi
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.2)
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> howardm:~/public_html/HOWTO$jade -d
> /usr/lib/sgml/stylesheets/cygn us-both.dsl -t tex
> tronlineDOC.sgml > tronlineDOC.tex
>
> results in a "proper" tronlineDOC.tex file , but then :
>
> howardm:~/public_html/HOWTO$jadetex tronlineDOC.tex
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.2)
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "db2rtf" and "db2html" work O.K.
Regards,
--
Howard Mann
http://www.newbielinux.com
Online Troubleshooting Resources:HOWTO
(http://www.xmission.com/~howardm/t1.html)