TeXlive2009

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. updated to texlive 2009
2. added path to texlive 2009 binaries in system
3. re-ran make file

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected to have my shiny pdf file at least

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
TexLive2009 on Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10

Please provide any additional information below.

I've been running my latex without probless using the stock files that 
ubuntu ships via apt-get install texlive-full or something. i didn't know 
that those files where out dated hence when the news that texlive2009 was 
out i did an install of it. It turns out that this breaks my compile with 
the following error. Do pardon me if this is not specific to the make file.

! Package pdftex.def Error: PDF mode expected, but DVI mode detected!
(pdftex.def)                If you are using `latex', then call `pdflatex'.
(pdftex.def)                Otherwise check and correct the driver options.
(pdftex.def)                Error recovery by switching to PDF mode.

the above happens three times after whic the compile fails.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by uduo...@gmail.com on 14 Nov 2009 at 5:01

Attachments:

• uduthesis.log

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Ah, yes.  I think this means that your document class needs to explicitly say 
"dvips" in 
its options.  If not, let me know, and I'll fiddle with it.

Original comment by shiblon on 15 Nov 2009 at 4:38

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Try this, also:

Create a Makefile.ini file with the following line:

LATEX := latex -output-format dvi

If that doesn't work, change "latex" to "pdftex" and let me know what happens.

Original comment by shiblon on 15 Nov 2009 at 4:42

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Incidentally, I think that issue 17 is related to this one.  Are you using 
hyperref by any 
chance?  If so, you need to specify the ps2pdf option to make it compatible 
with the 
makefile.

Original comment by shiblon on 19 Nov 2009 at 7:04

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Hi, Yes I'm using hyperref. I did resolve the problem by changing the ?= latex 
line
in the makefile to pdflatex. I did test the suggestions you proposed in comment2
without success. Hence pdflatex is now the default compiler in my Makefile. 
Thanks

Original comment by uduo...@gmail.com on 19 Nov 2009 at 8:46

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Be aware that changing the compiler name to pdflatex is not going to work for 
you 
with this makefile.  Here's how you fix this:

- change the ?= line back to latex

  (by the way, don't change ?= lines in the makefile since they can be overridden in 
your own Makefile.ini instead)

- change your hyperref package to include "ps2pdf" as one of the options, e.g.

  \usepackage[ps2pdf]{hyperref}

Everything should work after that.  "latex" is just a link to "pdflatex" on 
many 
systems, but it knows how it's invoked (via argv[0]) and changes options in 
important 
ways when it is run as "latex" vs. "pdflatex".  The makefile only works with a 
dvi-
>ps->pdf translation, so changing to pdflatex is definitely going to break 
stuff 
unless you explicitly tell it to change the output format as described above.

In short, I think this entire issue boils down to the missing "ps2pdf" option 
in the 
hyperref package.  Fix that and everything should work fine.

Original comment by shiblon on 19 Nov 2009 at 8:53

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changing the option in hyperref to ps2pdf and changing the LATEX ?= pdflatex 
line
back to LATEX ?= latex yeilds the same errors.

! Package pdftex.def Error: PDF mode expected, but DVI mode detected!
(pdftex.def)                If you are using `latex', then call `pdflatex'.
(pdftex.def)                Otherwise check and correct the driver options.
(pdftex.def)                Error recovery by switching to PDF mode.

make: *** [uduthesis.dvi] Error 1

! Package pdftex.def Error: PDF mode expected, but DVI mode detected!
(pdftex.def)                If you are using `latex', then call `pdflatex'.
(pdftex.def)                Otherwise check and correct the driver options.
(pdftex.def)                Error recovery by switching to PDF mode.

make: *** [uduthesis.dvi] Error 1

and won't compile. strange when i change it back to pdflatex, everything 
compiles OK.
Also, pdflatex works well with both ps2pdf and pdflatex option in hyperref.

I've attached the log and the abridged tex source showing the preamble of the
document for your perusal.(rename texfile.tex > uduthesis.tex)

Original comment by uduo...@gmail.com on 20 Nov 2009 at 1:12

Attachments:

• uduthesis.log
• texfile.tex

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Wow, I'm totally baffled, but gratified that you got it working for you.

So, again, I would suggest that you *not* edit the makefile directly, since 
then you'll 
have to be super careful if you ever update it.  Instead, create a file called 
"Makefile.ini" in the same directory, and put the following line in it:

LATEX := pdflatex

The ?= construct in the makefile means "set this if it hasn't already been set 
outside", 
and it will include your Makefile.ini in the right way, allowing you to do 
these kinds of 
overrides safely, while not having to worry about patching every new version of 
the 
makefile as it comes down.

Best wishes, and I'm glad you got it working.

Original comment by shiblon on 20 Nov 2009 at 2:49

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BTW, I uploaded r26679dd06711 which changes the default build strategy to 
pdflatex.  
HTH.  Marking fixed - if it works, grand.

You can get the pdflatex version 2.2.0-alpha1 from the downloads page if you 
want to 
give it a spin.  It probably has bugs.

Original comment by shiblon on 9 Mar 2010 at 8:24

• Changed state: Fixed

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The same error occurs for me,

! Package pdftex.def Error: PDF mode expected, but DVI mode detected!
(pdftex.def)                If you are using `latex', then call `pdflatex'.
(pdftex.def)                Otherwise check and correct the driver options.
(pdftex.def)                Error recovery by switching to PDF mode.

but when I comment \usepackage{graphicx} latex command works fine, but pdflatex 
command works fine without commenting \usepackage{graphicx}. 

I am using the latest version of texlive in ubuntu 10.10 and I use texmaker as 
the tex editor if it helps!

I need to generate a post script file and a dvi with Images

please help me!

Original comment by Rusiru.B...@gmail.com on 10 Jan 2011 at 6:01