[tex-live] TeXLive 2008 on a USB stick - Problems with dviout

Christine Kremsmayr c.kremsmayr at gmx.net
Wed Apr 8 13:47:44 CEST 2009


Hello everyone,

I have installed TeXLive 2008 to an USB stick according to the 
recommended steps at http://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html.

The installation procedure was as follows:
1) I mounted the ISO file and gave it the drive letter 'X'
2) Then I copied all the top-level files and the contents of the bin, 
texmf, texmf-dist, and tlpkg directories to the stick.
My stick has the drive letter 'H', so I copied all the stuff into 
H:\PortableApps\TeXLive2008\.
3) I ran tl-portable.bat from the root of the stick.
4) Then I created the path variable in Windows: 
H:\PortableApps\TeXLive2008\bin\win32;
5) Now I updated tlmgr as described at 
http://tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html. Afterwards I created all format files 
and refreshed the file name database (ls-R).
6) From now on commands like latex filename.tex were executed 
successfully. No errors. Dvi files were generated as well as pdf files 
(when I startet pdflatex).

7) BUT: I don't know why dviout is not working. When I want to open a 
dvi file with dviout the program says the it cannot resolve fonts. I 
configures the install.par like described in the readme file of dviout. 
The content of the original install.par is as follows:

---
dpi=600
TEXROOT="C:\Documents and 
Settings\XXX\.texlive2008\texmf-var\fonts;C:\Program 
Files\texlive\2008\texmf-var\fonts;C:\Program 
Files\texlive\2008\texmf-dist\fonts;C:\Program 
Files\texlive\2008\texmf\fonts"
TEXPK=^r\tfm\\^s^tfm;^r\pk\\^s.^dpk;^r\vf\\^s.vf;^r\ovf\\^s.ovf;^r\tfm\\^s.tfm
gsx="C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\tlpkg\tlgs\bin\gswin32c.exe"
gen="`C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\bin\win32\mktexpk.exe --mfmode / 
--dpi ^d --bdpi ^D --mag ^M ^s"
---

After my configuring the content is:
---
dpi=600
TEXROOT="H:\PortableApps\TeXLive2008\texmf-var\fonts;H:\PortableApps\TeXLive2008\texmf-dist\fonts;H:\PortableApps\TeXLive2008\texmf\fonts"
TEXPK=^r\tfm\\^s^tfm;^r\pk\\^s.^dpk;^r\vf\\^s.vf;^r\ovf\\^s.ovf;^r\tfm\\^s.tfm
gsx="H:\PortableApps\TeXLive2008\tlpkg\tlgs\bin\gswin32c.exe"
gen="`H:\PortableApps\TeXLive2008\bin\win32\mktexpk.exe --mfmode / --dpi 
^d --bdpi ^D --mag ^M ^s"
---

Could it be that dviout expects a local folder C:\Documents and 
Settings\christine\.texlive2008\texmf-var\fonts?
But why? I have used the script tl-portable.bat!

I hope I have explained my problem goog enough, pardon for my English.

Christine


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