Re: [SL] Printing and saving pdf in Windows

[John H. <jo...@hu...>]

You can always just use Print to PDF not as elegant but works everytime

Armaghan Saqib wrote:
> On 1/7/08, Kristjan Kaljund <kri...@gm...> wrote:
>   
>> That didn't work, even using it from command line gives errors. I understand
>> that dvipdf is no longer developed and replaced with dvipdfm or even
>> dvipdfmx, which is the newest and recommended choice. Does anybody know
>> which .pl files in SL directory have these commands? Maybe it would be
>> sufficient to just edit the command there. Or is there anybody out there at
>> all who has got printing and/or creating pdf working on Windows
>> installation?
>> Thankful for any hints,
>>     
>
> Staring from line number 838, in SL/Form.pm
>
>     if ($self->{format} eq 'pdf') {
>       system("pdflatex --interaction=nonstopmode $self->{tmpfile} >
> $self->{errfile}");
>       while ($self->rerun_latex) {
>         system("pdflatex --interaction=nonstopmode $self->{tmpfile} >
> $self->{errfile}");
>         last if ++$r > 4;
>       }
>
>       $self->{tmpfile} =~ s/tex$/pdf/;
>       $self->error($self->cleanup) if ! (-f $self->{tmpfile});
>     }
>
>