Re: [SL] Printing and saving pdf in Windows

[Michael H. <mh...@it...>]

As an interim workaround should be able to just add the path and then  
make a copy of the dvipdfm.exe with the name that's expected, dvipdf.exe


Thanks,

Michael



On Jan 6, 2008, at 8:17 AM, Kristjan Kaljund wrote:

> 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
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