Troubleshooting

BibTeX and MakeIndex do not work from TeXnicCenter

The error message may include a phrase ...blg: Forbidden to open for writing. Tightened security means that bibtex and makeindex can no longer write to arbitrary places in the filesystem. In particular, absolute pathnames are no longer allowed. Go to Build / Define Ouput Profiles. Check for each profile the (La)TeX tab the entries Command line arguments to pass to BibTeX and Command line arguments to pass to MakeIndex and replace "%bm" with "%tm". This should be fixed in a future release of TeXnicCenter.

TeXnicCenter can no longer find LaTeX or Ghostscript or Acrobat

If you use the RuG TeX Live installation, close the program and rerun the appropriate reconfiguration utility in the Start / Programs / TeX Live 2012 / Utilities menu.

If you use TeXnicCenter with your own TeX installation, choose from the menu successively Build and Define Output Profiles, then press the Wizard button at the bottom left of the window.

LuaTeX or XeTeX hangs

Probably LuaTeX or XeTeX is just busy generating or updating a font cache. This can take several minutes.

 

RuG TeX pages last revised on December 18 2012