Re: [SL] Printing and saving pdf in Windows

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

This is a good point, though a VMware image would probably be even  
quicker and easier to set up and use...


Thanks,

Michael



On Jan 7, 2008, at 10:48 PM, Paul Tammes wrote:

> Do a dual boot install, i have my windows machine that way, and  
> reboot into
> linux to do the finances.
> Extra bonus: not accessible for kids / wife /others who do not know  
> how to
> boot linux ;-)
>
> 2008/1/7, Kristjan Kaljund <kri...@gm...>:
>>
>> Still no luck. Seems to me SL uses commands 'dvips' for postscript  
>> and
>> 'pdflatex' for pdf - both run fine from command line, but SL still  
>> gives
>> the
>> 'Error!' message. And since there are no logs in SL it's hard to tell
>> where
>> the problem is. But since it runs from command line, I can't blame  
>> Latex,
>> seems to have something to do with SL after all. I'd install  
>> Linux, but
>> can't, since I need to run some Windows programs on the same  
>> machine as
>> well.
>> Any other ideas, anyone?
>>
>> Kristjan Kaljund
>>
>> 2008/1/7, Armaghan Saqib <sa...@le...>:
>>>
>>> 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});
>>>     }
>>>
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