Re: ipe on Windows with TeXLive on Cygwin

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) <[email protected] > 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,

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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>

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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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