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  • From: Yin Wang <address@hidden>
  • To: address@hidden
  • Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] silent failure on PDF export (bug?)
  • Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:28:00 -0400

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:50 PM, François-Xavier Thomas
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Ah, the famous PDF export bug... If that's what I think it is, then I may
> have had the same issue. Just to check, but you're using the latest release
> (1.0.7.16 if I'm not mistaken), right?

Yes, it is 1.0.7.16.


> Also, does TeXmacs generate a .PDF file with PostScript content (which of
> course is wrong, but I believe this was fixed somewhat), or huge real PDF
> file with garbled images?

It just doesn't generate anything. No files, no error messages. Just
like nothing happened :-P


> - If the former, do you have GhostScript and all the dependencies
> installed? Versions?
> - If the latter, there's a patch available for that bug, and I hope I can
> make things move and get it integrated with the next release in one way or
> another!

Great. Thanks.


>
> Cheers,
> François-Xavier
>
> On Oct 13, 2012 9:09 AM, "Yin Wang" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The current Mac OS X version doens't generate any PDF files when I
>> select File->Export-PDF. I have to export to PS and then use ps2pdf. I
>> had the same issue with an earlier Windows version (before 1.7).
>>
>> Is it a bug or do I need to install something else? It probably just
>> need a small fix but I think this function needs to work out of box.
>> It is likely to scare new users away when they found that this doesn't
>> work.
>>
>> I'm not new user and I know how good TeXmacs is, so I'm staying with
>> it any way ;-)
>>
>>
>> -- Yin



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