Re: LaTeX2rtf not running

anon k <nospam@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Wilfried Hennings wrote:
anon k <nospam@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Louie wrote:
On Mar 28, 9:19 am, anon k <nos...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Wilfried Hennings wrote:
anon k <nos...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I just installed LaTeX2rtf on WinXP and consistently get this error message:
Cannot execute C:\PROGRA~1\LATEX2RTF\LATEX2RT.EXE
Please cite exactly the complete error message (if there is any)
That is the entire error message. It doesn't offer any clues to a
tech-illiterate humanities person like me.

I just checked the executable from that site and it works fine on this
box.

Do you mind copying the paths written on the environment tab of the
GUI? It might be that the setup process went wrong.
Target: "C:\Program Files\latex2rtf\l2rshell.exe"
Start in: "C:\Program Files\latex2rtf"

I also tried adding an extra backslash to the 'start in' path, to no
visible advantage.

No, that is not the place Louie asked you to look at.

Indeed. The shell's running fine.

Configuration directory: C:\Program Files\latex2rtf\cfg
LaTeX: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.5\miktex\bin\latex.exe
ImageMagick: - not installed (?) -
GhostScript: - not installed (?) -

ImageMagick and GhostScript are indeed not installed.

The fact that ImageMagick and GhostScript are not installed only affects
the conversion of images and the conversion of equations to images, if
chosen. If your LaTeX file contains neither images not equations, it
doesn't matter.

However you should replace "C:\Program Files\" by "C:\PROGRA~1\" which
is the short (8.3) equivalent. The file accesses may fail if the path
contains spaces (blanks).
Same applies to the folder "MiKTeX 2.5". Open a command window and cd to
"Program Files", then do a "dir /X M*" which should display the 8.3
equivalent for the folder name "MiKTeX 2.5", and specify the short
equivalent in the environment tab of l2rshell.
Or, better, uninstall MiKTeX and reinstall it in a folder without a
space in the name, e.g. in "C:\MiKTeX2.5".

If you cannot start latex2rt.exe from the command line, your problem is
probably related to window, not to latex2rtf.

I don't know whether the error message comes from Windows or from
latex2rt when I try starting it from the command line. The error
message is simply uninformative.

What version of Windows do you run?

XP home.

OK, that eliminates the possibility of elaborated user access rights to
the files.

Do you run a 64bit CPU? latex2rtf is compiled for 32bit and may not run
on a 64bit system.

It's a Celeron of some sort inside a cheap Dell Inspiron notebook about
four years old... I would guess that it's 32-bit. The specs that I have
don't say.

Then you probably have a 32 bit system and no problem from this side.

Do you run a virus scanner which may prevent starting latex2rt.exe?

The virus scanner (Symantec) doesn't stop anything else from running so
I doubt that this is the cause. It is not issuing any warnings, as it
usually does, when suspicious things happen.

If no virus scanner but WinNT / 2000 / XP / 2003: What user rights are
assigned to the folder C:\Program Files\latex2rtf and to the files
installed in it?

I don't know how to tell but since this particular machine has only one
user profile, the so-called 'owner', it would seem likely that all
rights are assigned. None of the files or directories are set as 'read
only'.

User rights and "read only" are two different things. If you create a
new user in WinXP, you can give this user either full (administrative)
or limited rights. I did not yet test whether latex2rtf would run for a
user with limited rights.
But as you tell us that there is only one user profile, it is likely
that you have full rights and so the rights should not be a problem.

Can you please tell us exactly and literally what steps you do to "run
latex2rt.exe from the command line"?

Btw I will be out of office next week and unable to reply until after
easter.


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