[Ipe-discuss] Re: Ipe and Windows 7 RC?

Otfried Cheong otfried at ipe.airpost.net
Tue May 12 15:18:19 CEST 2009


> 2) Ipe wants to write TeX sources for running pdflatex
> to a temporary file in the Ipe directory tree.
> If that directory or file is not writable
> by the current user, then ipe will fail
> to run pdflatex.
> I remember it cost me some time to figure out how
> to make that directory writable un Windows Vista.
> (I think I had to modify the status of all parent directories)

You can ask Ipe to use a different directory by setting the environment
variable IPELATEXDIR.

Otfried





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