[Ipe-discuss] pdf latex error

[Short, Tom]

In Ipe, under Help | Preferences | Search Paths, do the pdflatex paths and
configuration path seem okay? 

Under a network configuration in windows, Ipe (partly) uses the HOMEDRIVE
variable to find the configuration file. The HOMEDRIVE variable set is by
windows networking, and it will override your HOME variable. I ended up
putting a copy of _ipecfg on my network "HOMEDRIVE", so it would find it
there. Note, I'm not exactly sure on this, as it has been awhile since I had
the problem.

- Tom


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Emmert [mailto:magicnmath at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 09:54
> To: Carlos Davila
> Cc: ipe-discuss at cs.uu.nl
> Subject: Re: [Ipe-discuss] pdf latex error
> 
> 
> 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?
> 
> --> Keith E. Emmert
> 
> 
> 
> --- Carlos Davila <cedavila at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Ryan, sounds like a similar problem to one I had a
> > short time 
> > ago...first, what error is returned? What operating
> > system are you 
> > using? What version of Latex are you using? What is
> > the error message?
> > 
> > CD
> > 
> > Ryan Clary wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm new to ipe. It seems to create pdf's just fine
> > if there is no text 
> > > included. If text is included, the run latex
> > returns an error without 
> > > explanation except to look in a log file that does
> > not exist. I can 
> > > run pdflatex on the created text.tex file ok, but
> > then what? ipe still 
> > > doesn't include it. I've tried using IPEPDFLATEX
> > environment variable 
> > > to redefine the search path for pdflatex (the
> > default seems to be 
> > > wrong) but ipe doesn't respect the new environment
> > variable. Can 
> > > anyone help? I hope that this mailing list is the
> > correct forum to 
> > > make this request, because I couldn't find any
> > other forum.
> > >
> > > Ryan
> > > mrclary at gmail.com
> > >
> >
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