Re: ipe on Windows with TeXLive on Cygwin

On 05/24/2016 11:18, Otfried Cheong
wrote:

On Mon, May 23, 2016, at 16:34, Kostas Oikonomou 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.

I cannot understand this. The message "There was an error trying to run
pdflatex" means that Ipe failed to run pdflatex - in such a situation
Ipe will not save into PDF format (which it cannot do without having
read the output of pdflatex). So how could it create an incorrect
.pdf file?

Yes, you are right, Ipe does not save a .pdf file. What I said
above was confusing.

What I meant to say is that I run pdlfatex by hand on the .tex file
made by Ipe, and the resulting .pdf file is a blank page.

Note that the latex input created by Ipe is in such a format that you
may not necessarily see anything interesting in the PDF output. Did you
check that you can run pdflatex through the .bat file created by Ipe?
So start a Windows command shell (Windows+R, type "cmd") and cd to the
directory indicated by Ipe as the latex directory (Ipe -> Help -> Show
Configuration). Do NOT use the cygwin shell.

The directory should contain a file "runlatex.bat". Try executing it
with "call runlatex" from the command shell.

Ok, please look at this:

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C:\cygwin64\home\ko\.ipe\latexrun>runlatex.bat

C:\cygwin64\home\ko\.ipe\latexrun>c:

C:\cygwin64\home\ko\.ipe\latexrun>cd
"c:/cygwin64/home/ko/.ipe/latexr

C:\cygwin64\home\ko\.ipe\latexrun>PATH c:/cygwin64/bin;C:\Program
Fil

A SecurID Token
Common;C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Windows

:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerSh

:\cygwin64\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\GTK2-Runtime\bin

C:\cygwin64\home\ko\.ipe\latexrun>pdflatex ipetemp.tex

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live
2015/Cygwin)

format=pdflatex)

restricted \write18 enabled.

entering extended mode

(./ipetemp.tex

LaTeX2e <2015/01/01>

Babel <3.9l> and hyphenation patterns for 79 languages loaded.

(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls

Document Class: article 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document
clas

(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))

(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xcolor/xcolor.sty

(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/color.cfg)

(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pdftex-def/pdftex.def

(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/infwarerr.sty)

(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ltxcmds.sty)))
(./ipetemp

(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.mkii

[Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).]

)

Overfull \hbox (170.0pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 59--60

[][]

[1{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]
(./ipetemp.aux

(see the transcript file for additional
information)</usr/share/texmf

s/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr10.pfb>

Output written on ipetemp.pdf (1 page, 10850 bytes).

Transcript written on ipetemp.log.

C:\cygwin64\home\ko\.ipe\latexrun>

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Result is a blank page.

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