On windows you have to download miktex: http://miktex.org/
I am not sure if miktex includes pdflatex. I only used it on linux but it should be easy to define it after miktex is installed. Anyway, I strongly recommend that you install cygwin. It includes python, latex, pdflatex and a bash (unix-like) shell. web2py runs great from that environment. massimo On Jan 1, 12:20 pm, Martin Weissenboeck <mweis...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am looking for something like pdflatex.exe. Google reports a lot of > links, but I did not find a trustable link for download. > > 2012/1/1 Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> > > > > > > > > > What is the problem exactly? Installing pdflatex? markmin2pdf cannot > > find pdflatex? can you see pdflatex outside of web2py? Does it make > > the latex at all? > > > On Jan 1, 11:25 am, Martin Weissenboeck <mweis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have found this description in the book: > > > > You can use markmin to generate HTML, LaTeX and PDF documents: > > > > m = "Hello **world** [[linkhttp://web2py.com]]" > > > > from gluon.contrib.markmin.markmin2html import markmin2html > > > > print markmin2html(m) > > > > from gluon.contrib.markmin.markmin2latex import markmin2latex > > > > print markmin2latex(m) > > > > from gluon.contrib.markmin.markmin2pdf import markmin2pdf > > > > print markmin2pdf(m)* # requires pdflatex* > > > > (the MARKMIN helper is a shortcut for markmin2html) > > > > There is a short line "requires pdflatex". > > > Sorry - I have tried it for some hours, but I could not install it. > > > Has anybody used markmin2pdf? > > > > Regards, Martin