Re: Ancestor Tree PDF failing to generate

Turns out this is "sort of" a user error.

In reading through the list of Third-Party Addons at
https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/5.1_Addons, I noticed the Tree
Reports in *bold *indicates you need *texlive/texlive pictures*, and
*texlive-fontsextra.*
A quick check for me reveals I did not have these installed.

Once installed the PDF files are now generating.

In essence however the plugin does appear to be throwing the wrong error,
it really should be warning the user that the texlive packages are a
requirement.

thanks

Matt


On Sun, 13 Mar 2022 at 23:55, Les B <[email protected]> wrote:

> Adrian
>
> The directory that I am sending the report to does exist and it was set up
> by using the browse icon. I never set up by typing in the directory
> filename. Other reports work file being sent to the same directory.
>
> I have even renamed an old pdf file with the filename for the Tree report.
> It asks if I want to override (so it is linking to the directory) but still
> returns the same error.
>
> Cheers
>
> Les
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrian Davey <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, 14 March 2022 10:28 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Gramps-users] Ancestor Tree PDF failing to generate
>
> I can confirm that all the "Reports > Graphical reports" output options
> definitely do work with output to pdf [or other formats] in 5.1.4, at least
> in the WinAIO version.
>
> I suspect there is a path issue here. I don't think it will work [for any
> output file format] unless the folder you specify to write the pdf into
> already exists.
>
> [It works fine if a pdf FILE of the specified name does not yet exist
> within the specified folder, or if one does, it asks whether you want to
> overwrite it.]
>
> But the fact you are specifying a folder path "/MyReports/" but the error
> message gives a location "/tmp/tmpk3u3eaxo/" suggests there is no real
> folder yet in existence on the path you specified? Else maybe your path
> specification is incomplete? I cannot remember much Linux syntax, but I
> suspect you may be omitting prefix text from your specified path [e.g.
> "~"], or alternatively that you should NOT be including the commencing
> slash?
>
> If you click on the file explorer button at the right end of the [output]
> filename you should be able to navigate to the folder you want to use,
> rather than editing the path within the filename field.
>
> On Windows at least, failure to correctly specify the folder generates an
> error message to that effect before it even attempts to create the file.
>
> Adrian Davey
>
>
>
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