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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Subject: Re: Rebuilding orgcard for US Letter
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 18:01:33 -0400
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Marc Oscar Singer <elf@synapse.com> wrote:

> I'd like to rebuild the orgcard.tex file into
> a US letter sized document.
> 
>    elf@zealous ~...gtd/org-6.03 > make doc/orgcard.pdf
>    (cd doc; tex orgcard.tex)
>    This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>    kpathsea: Running mktexfmt tex.fmt
>    I can't find the format file `tex.fmt'!
>    make: *** [doc/orgcard.dvi] Error 1
> 
> I have tex installed, but I'm not sure if this file
> should be part of the orgmode package, or part of
> my distribution.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 

Your TeX installation seems to be misconfigured/incomplete.
This is what I get:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
$ make doc/orgcard.pdf
(cd doc; tex orgcard.tex)
This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.5)
(./orgcard.tex [3 columns per page] [1] [2] )
Output written on orgcard.dvi (2 pages, 20304 bytes).
Transcript written on orgcard.log.
dvips -q -f -t landscape doc/orgcard.dvi | gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=doc/orgcard.pdf -c .setpdfwrite -
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

It *should* be the case that you can find the tex.fmt file
somewhere on your machine - try:

          kpsewhich tex.fmt

mktexfmt should actually be able to make it and install it - if
you don't find it in the above step, try making it:

          mktexfmt tex.fmt

and see where it ends up.

If this doesn't work, maybe somebody else has more/better ideas!-)

Regards,
Nick