[Ipe-discuss] ipe on Windows with TeXLive on Cygwin

Jari Lappalainen jari.lappalainen at iki.fi
Tue May 24 16:37:01 CEST 2016


Thanks, I'll give this a try.

Have you checked the log file in the ipe latex directory? Maybe there's a
problem with fonts set-up, for example.


On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Kostas Oikonomou <ko at research.att.com>
wrote:

> Only to some extent.   The following link
>
> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/41382/how-to-use-linux-commands-in-windows-with-cygwin/
>
> describes how to add the Cygwin path to the Windows path.  That solved
> half of the problem.  The remaining problem is that Ipe now runs, but the
> .pdf file it produces has a problem with text.  If your picture includes
> any text, ipe says "There was an error trying to run pdflatex".  I can run
> pdflatex by hand on the .tex file, and the result is a blank page.   So it
> looks like ipe is producing an incorrect .pdf file.
>
>                                 Kostas
>
> On 05/20/2016 12:39, Jari Lappalainen wrote:
>
> Kostas,
>
> Did you ever solve this?
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 6:34 PM, OIKONOMOU, KOSTAS N (KOSTAS N) <
> <ko at research.att.com>ko at research.att.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 8/16/2015 10:35 PM, Otfried Cheong wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015, at 23:38, Kostas Oikonomou wrote:
>>
>> I have Ipe 7.1.8 for/on Windows 7.  I also have Cygwin with a TeXlive
>> 2015 installation.
>> But I can't make ipe work with this TeXlive.  It insists that it can't
>> find "pdflatex".
>> I tried adding c:\cygwin64\bin to the Windows PATH, but it doesn't help.
>>
>> I don't see any reason why this should not work, but you probably need
>> to investigate more systematically.
>>
>> 1) Open a Windows Command shell (Windows+R and type CMD), and check that
>> you can run "pdflatex".
>>
>> Something strange is going on. (I don't understand Windows, I'm using it
>> only because I have to).
>> In File Explorer, I can see \cygwin64\bin\pdflatex System File) and
>> pdftex.exe (Application).
>> Yet in the Windows command shell,
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
>> Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>>
>> C:\Windows\System32>\cygwin64\bin\pdflatex
>> '\cygwin64\bin\pdflatex' is not recognized as an internal or external
>> command,
>> operable program or batch file.
>>
>> C:\Windows\System32>\cygwin64\bin\pdftex
>> Access is denied.
>>
>> C:\Windows\System32>\cygwin64\bin\pdftex.exe
>> Access is denied.
>>
>> C:\Windows\System32>\cygwin64\bin\ls
>>
>> <long output>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> I've just tried this on my Windows computer:  In a CMD shell, I can run
>> \cygwin\bin\ls without adding anything to my path.
>>
>> 2) Once you have this working, go to the Ipe Latex directory (check Help
>> -> Show configuration - In my case this is
>> C:\Users\otfried\AppData\Local\Ipe).   This directory will contain a
>> batch file "runlatex.bat".  Check that you can execute this batch file
>> from a Windows command shell.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>  Otfried
>>
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