[texpoint-users] a weird error message

[Andreas Glatz]

Hi,

 could you do the following
1. update TexPoint to 2.8.1 and
2. update Office to 11.2

and let me know if the problem persists.
(For now it looks to me, that latex fails for some reason. You could do
the following after the first messagebox appeared (saying that the tex
file is written): do not close it, change to the Terminal and call:
> cd /Volumes/llee/Desktop/
> latex TP_tmp.tex
and check if there are errors.
)

Andreas.


Lie-Quan Lee wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> Thanks very much for investigating the problem. Here is the detailed
> information after I turned on debug being 2.
>
> First popup window: llee:Desktop:TP_tmp.tex written ...
>
> Second popup window: internal Tex2Bmp starts with llee:Desktop:TP_tmp
>   > calling latex next with param: 'TM_tmp.tex'
>
> Third popup window: File: llee:Desktop:lock written (max256 bytes shown).
> This file can be deleted.
>
> After that I got popup window:
> Error:
> Serious error while execution of maketheshape
> Press Cancel of Finish Later to exit to PowerPoint
>
> Here is the information from texpoint copied to clipboard.
>
> TexPoint Configuration Information
>
> Version: 2.7 (Mac) (October 17, 2005)
> running as AddIn: Texpoint.ppa
> TexPoint path: Macintosh HD:Applications:TexPoint2_7:
> Global Configuration File: TexPoint.mac
> Presentaion path: llee:Desktop:
> Presentation name: Presentation1.ppt
> current path: llee:Desktop
>
> PowerPoint 11.0 (Build 060202) on Macintosh 10.4.5
>
> Unix path to presentation: /Volumes/llee/Desktop/Presentation1.ppt
> your default shell: /bin/bash
> Bash path: bash is /bin/bash
> Latex path: latex is /sw/bin/latex
> dvips path: dvips is /sw/bin/dvips
> ghostscript path: gs is /sw/bin/gs
> If all paths are set, TexPoint is fully functional. In case an '<unknown>'
> is displayed, install the indicated software and/or check the bash path
> configuration in the appropriate 'profile' file.
>
>
> On 3/24/06 9:09 AM, "Andreas Glatz" <glatz at anl.gov> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>>  could you send us the complete content of the information box in the
>> configuration dialog? (Use the "Copy to clipboard" button)
>> Unfortunately this error message is rather generic so it would be useful
>> if you could specify at which point something goes wrong.
>> Therefore you should set the debug level (Configure->Global) to 2 and
>> then create a display.
>>
>> Andreas.
>>
>>
>> Lie-Quan Lee wrote:
>>     
>>> After I installed TexPoint 2.7 or 2.8 on PowerPoint 2004 Mac, I
>>> started to use it by creating display. However,  I got an error
>>> message saying that "Serious error while execution of maketheshape". I
>>> remembered that the lower version of TexPoint work on my Mac. Since
>>> then, I updated systems and Office 2004. And update TexPoint. Now this
>>> error message happened. I examined the path/information, it seems that
>>> latex/dvips/gs all can be found from path (installed from fink). Any
>>> hints what went wrong?
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot
>>> Rich Lee
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