MiKTeX 2.8 Known Issues
This page lists the biggest stumbling blocks you may come across when you install and use MiKTeX 2.8.
TeXnicCenter compatibility
LaTeX terminates with "GUI framework cannot be initialized" if invoked from TeXnicCenter (1.0 Stable Release Candidate 1). This happens when a missing package needs to be installed and the pop-up window cannot be displayed.
Remedy: start MiKTeX Options and choose either Yes or No (but not "Ask me first") for the option "Install missing packages on-the-fly".
LaTeX produces PDF (not DVI)
If you experience that
latex foo
produces foo.pdf (instead of foo.dvi), then you should check your preamble code. For example, the following code does not work as expected because the primitive \pdfoutput is always defined:
\newif\ifpdf%
\ifx\pdfoutput\undefined%
\pdffalse%
\else%
\pdfoutput=1%
\pdftrue%
\fi%
Instead of the above code, you should use the ifpdf package:
\usepackage{ifpdf}
This package provides a working \ifpdf macro.
ConTeXt Mark II requires Ruby
Symptom: texexec --version outputs nothing.
Some ConTeXt scripts are written in Ruby. In order to make use of these ConTeXt scripts, you must install Ruby.