Re: [SL] Printing and saving pdf in Windows

[Kristjan K. <kri...@gm...>]

2008/1/6, Stroller <lin...@my...>:
>
>
> On 4 Jan 2008, at 21:45, Kristjan Kaljund wrote:
> >
> > ...  I finally got SL working on Windows server (Win XP +
> > Apache2triad + all those DBD and DBI things),...
> >  - I'm unable to print or save in pdf-format any of the
> > invoices. After several more hours of online search I have proTeXt
> > installed
> > and the pdf+postscript options show nicely in the appropriate pulldown
> > menus, but no actual result - SL simply refreshes the screen as if
> > it's done
> > something or just gives a simple 'Error' message.
>
> Hi Kristjan,
>
> I'd guess - but it's only a guess - that Ghostscript might be required.
>
> (Update: http://faculty.smu.edu/barr/latex/ seems to confirm this)
>
> Can you make a PDF using a simple test .tex file?
>
> I haven't used LaTeX on Windows, but the comp.text.tex newsgroup [1]
> is VERY helpful.
> The FGA (frequently given answer) there is "Can you recreate the
> problem in a minimal example and post it?"
>
> For example, one of my problems was in the past resolved by basing
> future revisions on the following tex markup:
>     \documentclass[pdftex]{article}
>     \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
>     \usepackage[pdftex]{geometry}
>     \geometry{a4paper,landscape,
>                 nohead,nofoot,
>                 left=15mm,right=15mm,top=1cm,bottom=1cm}
>       \usepackage{longtable}
>       \begin{document}
>     \thispagestyle{empty}
>     \noindent
>     ABC\hfill this XYZ\par
>
>     \vfill\noindent
>     ABC\hfill XYZ
>
>     \end{document}
>
> Under Linux I would place this in a file called " test.tex" and run
> `latex test.tex`. This gives a foo.dvi output file, which I would
> convert to pdf using `dvipdf foo.dvi `. I'm not sure how you
> undertake this on Windows, but you need to convert a .tex file to PDF
> before you start chasing problems with LedgerSMB.
>
> Stroller.
>
>
> [1] http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/


Hi,

Thanks for you reply. Ghostscript in installed and following your
instruction I managed to create a .pdf from the quoted .tex file, the only
difference being that the command in my case is not 'dvipdf test.dvi, but
'dvipdfm test.dvi'. I guess I would need to change that somewhere in the SL
configuration as well? I just don't know where - the sql-ledger.conf files
just says:

# if the server can't find gzip, latex, dvips or pdflatex, add the path
$ENV{PATH} .= ":/usr/local/bin";

but running dvips or pdflatex from command line seems to work fine.

Kristjan