July 30. 2005 01:56

why dont you put protext onto a dvd?
g. szeidl

Gyorgy SZEIDL

July 30. 2005 04:44

I am not the producer of the ProTeXt CD. MiKTeX is just a part of ProTeXt.

Christian Schenk

November 30. 2005 08:30

You wrote:

you loose the ability to share MiKTeX in a network environment

you mean "lose", rather than "loose"

David Tulett

January 26. 2006 05:43

I agree with the DVD option. Go for it and pack everything on it.

For MiKTeX's setup, first copy all files into the temp directory and then install. Installing from a CD or DVD is a pain and takes forever. So move everything in one batch (have one enormous CAB file with all packages and just move that to temp, then extract. It's faster).

It would be useful to have tools for authors where fonts need to be embedded in the PDF ready for sending to the printer. Can dvipdfm or pdftex have an option for embedding everything? I'm not quite sure how to extract the type 1 fonts from the font binary archives and add them to the WINDOWS\font directory for the Acrobat distiller. It would be nice not to have to rely on distiller.

Also, can we have a MiKTeX for x86-64/Win64? I would be happy to produce this if someone can help me through the process of building a MiKTeX distribution.

James Buchanan

March 2. 2006 16:29

I would like to add the cmolddig package to my installation on Windows 2000 but cannot make it work. I found the package on CTAN and downloaded and unzipped it into what looked to me like proper TDS dictories but MIKtex says it isn't a proper repository.

I had it working in the old TexLive environment which I no longer use.

I would be very appreciative of your help. I have been TUG member for about 5 years.

George Stewart

February 28. 2007 16:15

A DVD would be useless for the many people whose machines only have a CD.

Peter Flynn