Re: ipe on Windows with TeXLive on Cygwin

You did everything right - unfortunately the last issue has to be fixed
in Ipe itself (the log file looks a bit different since latex on cygwin
doesn't bake the format into the binary).

I'll make a maintenance release in two weeks when I'm back from
traveling.

Cheers
 Otfried
 
On Thu, May 26, 2016, at 16:39, Jari Lappalainen wrote:
> Ok, thanks, I'll try a different set-up in the meanwhile.
> 
> I did get it working - almost. I had to 1) make a copy of cygwin
> pdftex.exe
> with a name of pdflatex.exe (cygwin uses a symbolic link to achieve the
> same goal but that does not work with batch files) and 2) change windows
> Path environment variable so that it points to the pdflatex.exe file.
> 
> Then the ipe latex directory batch file runs fine. Also the ipetoipe
> command executes that batch file (the log file indicates it ran fine and
> there is a new non-empty pdf file in the same directory) but it still
> stops
> with "There was an error trying to run Pdflatex" message and produces no
> input.
> 
> So it feels like it was very close but not quite.
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 10:55 PM, Otfried Cheong
> <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Tue, May 24, 2016, at 16:37, Jari Lappalainen wrote:
> > > Thanks, I'll give this a try.
> >
> > I've looked at the problem, and it seems that it's not possible to use
> > pdflatex from cygwin in this version of Ipe.   I will fix this in the
> > next release.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >   Otfried
> >
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