[Ipe-discuss] pdf latex error

[Keith Emmert]

--- Johan Ingvast <ingvast at md.kth.se> wrote:
> 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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> 

Yeah, I tried the command line...I can run PDFLatex. 
IPE won't even save the files that I create since it
seems to want to run PDFLatex before it is saved.

---> Keith E. Emmert


		
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