RE: Failure in conversion to pdf/ps/dvi

[Gary Stainburn <gary dot stainburn at ringways dot co dot uk>]

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)

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-----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) 


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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) 


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"db2rtf" and "db2html" work O.K. 


I'd appreciate any thoughts. 


Thanks a lot. 


Howard

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