Re: [SLUG] Re: Creating PDFs
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 01:47:48PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
[terryc@owl 2002]$ pdftex 20020417-perm.tex
You're running TeX (well, pdftex)...
(20020417-perm.tex[/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg]
Babel v3.6Z and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
ngerman, i
talian, portuges, russian, spanish, nohyphenation, loaded.
! Undefined control sequence.
l.4 \documentclass
[a4paper,12pt]{report}
?
And it repeats for every latex command
...but you say it's a LaTeX document.
Do you get the same problem if you use pdflatex instead of pdftex?
If not, does it work, or what error does it give?
-Andrew.
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Re: [SLUG] Re: Creating PDFs
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 03:14:12PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: Angus Lees wrote: On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 01:12:29PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: Angus Lees wrote: At Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:39:31 +1000, marty wrote: what tools are people using to create PDFs? i use pdftex (or rather, pdflatex). Can I ask how? both pdftex pdflatex just reject all the latex stuff with !undefined control sequence and the doco is no help. hmm.. it just works for me (unless you do something silly like try and use pstricks) Okay, that means I'm fundamentally doing the correct thing. Just a few crinkles involved what version of pdftex (--version) ? [terryc@owl 2002]$ pdftex -version pdfTeX (Web2C 7.3.1) 3.14159-0.13d 0.13d is *ancient* (by pdftex standards) my (standard debian unstable tetex packages) have: pdfTeX (Web2C 7.3.7) 3.14159-1.00a-pretest-2004-ojmw iirc, the latest pdftex release is 1.00b-pretest and included in tex live. its possible to compile a newer pdftex and drop it over an existing install (i've done it). you have to remember to rebuild the pdflatex format, and install the relevant .pool files - not just the pdftex binary. which tex installation? version? (distro?) Whatever came on the RH7.1 CDs from Everything Linux. I haven't upgraded anything yet. redhat use the latest stable release of tetex. everyone else (suse, debian, tex live) are using tetex-beta. the only places where tex is evolving fast enough these days for that to be a problem is pdftex and context. if you need either of these, always look around for a newer version. it looks like thomas esser will be releasing a new stable version of tetex fairly soon though. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Re: Creating PDFs
Terry Collins wrote:
Mike Lake wrote:
Terry wrote
! Undefined control sequence.
l.4 \documentclass
[a4paper,12pt]{report}
?
And it repeats for every latex command
Well, at least the first 10.
What does it do if you try latex ie not pdflatex ?
Works fine for latex.
Right then we do have a valid LaTeX file not a Tex file.
By going latex - dvips - ps2pdf - I can get a pdf with fuzzy text. So
I'm assuming that there is nothing wrong with the document.
Thats a different problem. The fonts in the PDF are
bitmapped and that can be solved easy. We will tackle that
later by embedding the fonts or using PS TYpe 1 fonts
instead.
.
Is there anything in the file before \documentclass that might be
causing the error?
% This is /home/terryc/latex/terryc/resumes/2002/20020417.tex
% Updated by Terry Collins on 20020417.
Thats OK.
That is the $64K question. I can not see anything, but latex
occcassionally seems to find phantoms. Retyping those lines made no
difference. Removing those lines made no difference. Guess I just have
to wait for the wind to change {:-). Following Gus's suggestion, I will
just start with a simple one pager, then two, etc until I work out what
it doesn't like.
Yep. Just have one paragraph after the begin{document} and
before the \end{document}. See if it barfs on that.
Mike
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Re: [SLUG] Re: Creating PDFs
Angus Lees wrote:
At Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:39:31 +1000, marty wrote:
what tools are people using to create PDFs?
i use pdftex (or rather, pdflatex).
Can I ask how?
both pdftex pdflatex just reject all the latex stuff with !undefined
control sequence and the doco is no help.
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Re: [SLUG] Re: Creating PDFs
Terry Collins wrote: Can I ask how? both pdftex pdflatex just reject all the latex stuff with !undefined control sequence and the doco is no help. Details -- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical. UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER = This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. = -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Re: Creating PDFs
Michael Lake wrote:
Terry Collins wrote:
Can I ask how?
both pdftex pdflatex just reject all the latex stuff with !undefined
control sequence and the doco is no help.
Details
[terryc@owl 2002]$ pdftex 20020417-perm.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-13d (Web2C 7.3.1)
(20020417-perm.tex[/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg]
Babel v3.6Z and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
ngerman, i
talian, portuges, russian, spanish, nohyphenation, loaded.
! Undefined control sequence.
l.4 \documentclass
[a4paper,12pt]{report}
?
And it repeats for every latex command
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Re: [SLUG] Re: Creating PDFs
Terry wrote
! Undefined control sequence.
l.4 \documentclass
[a4paper,12pt]{report}
?
And it repeats for every latex command
What does it do if you try latex ie not pdflatex ?
What does it do if you use article class instead of report for latex or
pdflatex.
Is there anything in the file before \documentclass that might be
causing the error?
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Re: [SLUG] Re: Creating PDFs
Mike Lake wrote:
Terry wrote
! Undefined control sequence.
l.4 \documentclass
[a4paper,12pt]{report}
?
And it repeats for every latex command
Well, at least the first 10.
What does it do if you try latex ie not pdflatex ?
Works fine for latex.
By going latex - dvips - ps2pdf - I can get a pdf with fuzzy text. So
I'm assuming that there is nothing wrong with the document.
What does it do if you use article class instead of report for latex or
pdflatex.
Same problem
Is there anything in the file before \documentclass that might be
causing the error?
% This is /home/terryc/latex/terryc/resumes/2002/20020417.tex
% Updated by Terry Collins on 20020417.
That is the $64K question. I can not see anything, but latex
occcassionally seems to find phantoms. Retyping those lines made no
difference. Removing those lines made no difference. Guess I just have
to wait for the wind to change {:-). Following Gus's suggestion, I will
just start with a simple one pager, then two, etc until I work out what
it doesn't like.
Thanks.
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Re: [SLUG] Re: Creating PDFs
Terry Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[terryc@owl 2002]$ pdftex 20020417-perm.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-13d (Web2C 7.3.1)
(20020417-perm.tex[/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg]
Babel v3.6Z and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
ngerman, i
talian, portuges, russian, spanish, nohyphenation, loaded.
! Undefined control sequence.
l.4 \documentclass
[a4paper,12pt]{report}
?
And it repeats for every latex command
pdftex is equivalent to tex and can only run with plain TeX. If your
LaTeX document doesn't include any EPS/PS, pdflatex should work. Here is
template so that you can run both latex and pdflatex:
%% Preamble
\ifx\pdfoutput\undefined% We're not running pdftex
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report}
\else
\documentclass[pdftex,a4paper,12pt]{report}
%% More options described in pdfTeX manual
\pdfcompresslevel=9
\pdfinfo
{ /Title (Title of Document)
/Author (Your Name)
/Subject (???)
/Keywords (???)
}
\fi
...
\begin{document}
...
%% Example of including figures: pdflatex supports PDF, PNG and JPEG graphics
\begin{figure}
\centering
\ifx\pdfoutput\undefined
\includegraphics{fig.eps}
\else
\includegraphics{fig.pdf}
\fi
\end{figure}
...
\end{documnent}
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Re: [SLUG] Re: Creating PDFs
At Fri, 5 Apr 2002 19:27:50 +1000, marty wrote: $author = Angus Lees ; At Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:39:31 +1000, marty wrote: what tools are people using to create PDFs? i use pdftex (or rather, pdflatex). it usually produces pdf's of higher quality (conformance to pdf standard and general layout) than the adobe tools themselves. i never used latex before, any good tools or primers on it? LyX is probably the best gui editor for producing TeX, but writing the source directly isn't that hard either. after you've installed the relevant TeX packages (probably something involving the string tetex), have a look for a document called lshort.dvi (or maybe .ps). if it wasn't installed do a web search for it (its The Not So Short Guide to LaTeX2e). that will give you the basics. for further stuff, start looking at individual installed packages (find a texmf/doc directory or use texdoctk (if available)), packages you don't have - but could if you wanted (on ctan.org), and maybe at the mailing lists on www.tug.org. and feel free to ask questions on the slug list too. -- - Gus And, if you are writing anything longer than a note to Mum, I recommend Emacs + Auctex + Reftex. Fantastic author support for longer documents. Cheers, Alan -- -- Alan L Tyree[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~alant Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 419 638 170 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Re: Creating PDFs
$author = Angus Lees ; At Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:39:31 +1000, marty wrote: what tools are people using to create PDFs? i use pdftex (or rather, pdflatex). it usually produces pdf's of higher quality (conformance to pdf standard and general layout) than the adobe tools themselves. i never used latex before, any good tools or primers on it? the tool doesn't need to work with .doc's, just any format i can save from abiword in... i presume abiword can save a plain text file ? it can, it can do quite a few formats... there were quite a few suggestions to use ps2pdf, but absent from the save as list was postscript... it took a decent whack from the self applied clue stick to realise that printing to a file produced postscript output... however the resulting PDF chopped half a character from the ends of a couple of lines... but i was at the point where close enough was good enough... marty -- Skirwan - And if pigs can fly, and I can ride one, and they fly me to hell, and it just froze over, and we all have ice cream... [1] talonyx - I really need to stop reading Slashdot while on codeiene... [2] [1] - http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=28984cid=3113144 [2] - http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=28984cid=3113355 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Re: Creating PDFs
Hi Martin On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 19:27:50 +1000 Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there were quite a few suggestions to use ps2pdf, but absent from the save as list was postscript... it took a decent whack from the self applied clue stick to realise that printing to a file produced postscript output... however the resulting PDF chopped half a character from the ends of a couple of lines... but i was at the point where close enough was good enough... marty I'm sorry you didn't understand my previous post (repeated below) Quick and dirty :- Output from Abiword to a Postscript file. (Print to file) eg. myfile.ps run ps2pdf ps2pdf myfile.ps fymile.pdf Also when you print from Abiword, choose the option to embed fonts. (available in 0.9.2 which I have) You can try creating up to 5 online with adobe site http://cpdf.adobe.com/index.pl/511146710.26606?BP=E or http://www.ps2pdf.com/convert/index.htm Chris -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
