General ⇒ latex=>DVI just creates pdf file [solved]

[ulli.winter]

hi,
i´v updated to miktex 2.5, and since then each time i try to compile a dvi file, it is not created - but the according pdf file.

any suggestions?

[ulli.winter]

ok...
it was some strange template whicht caused the compiler to do so....

[streawkceur]

So how did you fix the problem?
I've got the same problem here with MikTeX 2.5.2580 and TeXnicCenter 1 Beta 7.01.

In LaTeX => DVI mode it seems to create a pdf and no dvi. The log says

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This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.6-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.5) (preloaded format=latex 2007.2.23)  23 FEB 2007 17:32
entering extended mode
[...]
Output written on out.pdf (7 pages, 59291 bytes).

Which doesn't make much sense as I want a DVI...

[ulli.winter]

i used the report template...
in it a lot of
"\newif\ifpdf
\ifx\pdfoutput\undefined
\pdffalse %%normales LaTeX wird ausgeführt
\else
\pdfoutput=1
\pdftrue %%pdfLaTeX wird ausgeführt
\fi"
stuff
seems to decide by itself whether it creates a dvi or pdf

to make it short...
i deleted all "*pdf*" stuff
)

[streawkceur]

I've had this code in my sources:

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% will be used further below.
\newif\ifpdf 
	\ifx\pdfoutput\undefined 
	\pdffalse    % we are not running pdflatex 
	\else 
	\pdfoutput=1 % we are running pdflatex 
	%\pdfcompresslevel=9     % compression level for text and image;
	\pdftrue 
\fi

...

\ifpdf
	\usepackage[pdftex,pdfauthor={\autor},pdftitle={\titel}]{hyperref}
\fi

It seems as LaTeX would automatically create a PDF when the package hyperref is loaded with the option pdftex.
But this package should only be loaded when we're running pdflatex. So apperently the pdflatex-detection (ifpdf) seems to be wrong.

So I removed the code for the detection and just loaded this package, which does the same:

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\usepackage{ifpdf}

Now the code at the bottom works and I get DVI and PDF as wanted.