Hi Thomas and Karl, Thanks for your replies -- appreciated.
> Although i must admit, that i'm not a native english speaker, this > sounds to me as "miktex\bin" should follow the installation directory, > which would lead to "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.5\miktex\bin" as pointed > above. Indeed, it looks like I glossed this over too hastily and missed the fact that "miktex\bin" was mentioned. It still sounds maybe a little bit ambigious to me (almost as if "miktex\bin" is the subdirectory where the files will be searched for, and that "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.5" might be the directory to enter -- which is of course not accepted by TeXnicCenter). But this is no big deal as far as I'm concerned. > - Make sure you'll find the following entries on the right side of the mask: > > Path to the (La)TeX-Compiler: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.5\miktex\bin > Command line arguments... : --src -interaction=nonstopmode "%Wm" The command line arguments are as above. But the path was actually "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.5\miktex\bin\latex.exe". I removed the last part, such that only the parent folder of latex (bin) was present: "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.5\miktex\bin" -- just to test. That gave an almost identical error: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.5\miktex\bin<two non printable characters here>Cannot execute the command.<non printable character>Error:<two non printable characters>%1 is not a valid Win32 application. I've double-checked again that "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.5\miktex\bin" has the "latex.exe" and that it can be launched manually. The non-printable characters sprinkled throughout the path in the output window manifest themselves as rectangles. I'm starting to suspect that they might be related to the problem somehow, although I don't know why they would get into the path in the first place. I tried to run ProcessMon to see what files were attempted to be executed and with what arguments, but didn't actually find any instance of latex being executed. Regards, Robert _______________________________________________ protext mailing list http://tug.org/protext/
