[Ipe-discuss] pdf latex error

[Johan Ingvast]

On Wed, 4 May 2005, Keith Emmert wrote:

> Hey all...I'm also fairly new to IPE.  I've received
> the same sort of message.  IPE seems to work fine when
> text is not included.  When it is included, I receive
> a message that basically says that IPE cannot find
> PDFLatex.
> 
> I am using PCTeX, but downloaded MiKTeX so that I have
> some version of PDFLatex.  That didn't work.  I
> modified the environment variable.  That didn't work. 
> I added a specific path statement which pointed to
> PDFLatex...that didn't work either.
> 
> The really odd thing is that IPE works at home where I
> run Windows XP, but does NOT work at the office where
> I run Windows XP Pro.  The XP Pro machine is part of a
> network.  I had the network guru log in with his admin
> account and it wouldn't work.  We tried installing IPE
> on another machine (also running XP Pro) and that
> didn't work.
> 
> Ideas?
First thing I wonder! Does pdflatex work from the command line?
Try 
    pdflatex test.tex

Where the test.tex is simply

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
This is a test
\end{document}

If not the problem is not within IPE.

Does it work, try to find the tex file generated by IPE called text.tex
On *nix systems those can be found at $HOME/.ipe/latexrun and I guess it
is called something similar on XP.

Process test.tex with pdflatex and see what happens

just some thoughts

/johan
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