2011/5/23 Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org>: > 8 minutes ago, Jay McCarthy wrote: >> Most of the time when I run scribble to get PDF output, I get something like: >> >> /texmf-texlive-dist/fonts/type1/urw/times/utmb8a.pfb></opt/local/share/texmf-te >> xlive-dist/fonts/type1/urw/times/utmr8a.pfb></opt/local/share/texmf-texlive-dis >> t/fonts/type1/urw/times/utmri8a.pfb> >> Output written on main.pdf (8 pages, 272591 bytes). >> PDF statistics: >> 1061 PDF objects out of 1200 (max. 8388607) >> 736 compressed objects within 8 object streams >> 17 named destinations out of 1000 (max. 500000) >> 271 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 10000 (max. 10000000) >> >> run-pdflatex: got error exit code > > This error should be printed after the full error log is displayed, so > you should see some error message. (This is done by the code in > "collects/scribble/private/run-pdflatex.rkt".) Such an error message > should be much better than opening a broken PDF and trying to find > where it's broken...
There is nothing after what I pasted. > > >> I'm guessing that it is because there is something like missing >> cross-references or something? But scribble deletes the PDF, so I >> can't look at it even though latex says it made it, and there's no >> other useful message. > > The latex file and the pdf generation is done from a temporary > directory that is deleted at the end of the work. This is done by > "collects/scribble/private/indirect-renderer.rkt". > > I'm not sure that it's a good idea to copy the pdf out even if there > was an error. It fits the *tex model of compile-what-you-can, but it > doesn't fit the racket compilation convention. I think that this > difference can lead to broken assumptions made by people who are used > to the latter. Finding out what problem you have might clarify if > it's a good idea or not. > > (Adding some command line flag will be problematic, since there's no > setup for renderer-specific flags, I think, although some of them are > not doing much in pdf mode.) > > BTW, for reference, the relevant picture is: > > 1 latex-render.rkt renders latex files > 2 private/run-pdflatex knows how to run (and iterate) pdflatex > 3 private/indirect-renderer.rkt > can combine two tools to create a new renderer > pdf-render.rkt uses 3 to combine 1->2 into a pdf renderer > > -- > ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: > http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! > -- Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
