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Why has pdflatex stopped working?

April 26, 2017pdflatex stopped working

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Why has pdflatex stopped working?

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After updating to Gerben Wierda’s latest teTeX distribution you might discover that the pdflatex item in OzTeX’s Tools menu no longer works. The problem is that teTeX no longer supports the pdflatex.fmt file. The LaTeX team have decreed that e-TeX is to be the default typesetting engine and so pdflatex now runs pdfetex with a format called pdflatex.efmt. The best solution is to edit TeX/Configs/Default and replace the existing extra_tools entry for pdflatex: “unix,pdftex -shell -fmt=pdflatex -int=nonstopmode %f,pdflatex,tex” | with this: “unix,pdflatex -shell -int=nonstopmode %f,pdflatex,tex” | I’ll be making this change in the next release of OzTeX so it’s quite okay to modify the supplied Default file.