Re: [SL] Printing and saving pdf in Windows

[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/