Your version of MiKTeX seems to be a little bit outdated.
My current version is:
pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.15 (MiKTeX 2.9)
, yours is
pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (MiKTeX 2.9)
.
Please update your tex distribution.
If your MikTeX is well installed the following is working:
- Open Windows terminal
- Change to the directory with test file
HelloWorld.tex
: cd test
. You will see something like (I didn't change the language German, no problem here):
Verzeichnis von C:\Users\Internet\Desktop\LaTeX\TeX.SX\test
Test, that the file is there: dir Helloworld.*
. Should result in:
08.02.2015 23:06 76 HelloWorld.tex
1 Datei(en), 76 Bytes
Type: pdflatex HelloWorld
. The last two lines on sreen are:
Output written on HelloWorld.pdf (1 page, 12439 bytes).
Transcript written on HelloWorld.log.
Check result: dir HelloWorld.*
. You should see:
Verzeichnis von C:\Users\Internet\Desktop\LaTeX\TeX.SX\test
08.02.2015 23:20 9 HelloWorld.aux
08.02.2015 23:20 5.317 HelloWorld.log
08.02.2015 23:20 12.439 HelloWorld.pdf
08.02.2015 23:06 76 HelloWorld.tex
4 Datei(en), 17.841 Bytes
0 Verzeichnis(se), 427.102.679.040 Bytes frei
The simple MWE HelloWorld.tex
for this is:
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\begin{document}
Hello World!
\end{document}
There should be no need to give the path for pdflatex. Windows should recognize the right path to the program pdflatex.exe
. If not you have a problem with your installation and I would suggest to install the current MiKTeX!
Hope this helps you ...
text.tex
in?dir
command in the folder where your file should be, show?