Hi Stroller;
In 1.2.2-3, you should change the LaTeX templates to use the absolute
path to any custom logos. We cant really parse the LaTeX to know
which files to copy to /tmp/ and that would not be safe anyway.
Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
On 4/16/07, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone got any hints on logos for the .tex templates, please?
>
> Some background: a hard-drive failed on my SL (2.6.21ish) machine a
> couple of weeks ago - all my accounting data was intact in my daily
> pg_dumpall backup, but my highly customised invoice.tex (the one with
> the red go-faster stripes down the side) got chomped. I imported my
> data to a new machine but had a bit of trouble setting up L-SMB on my
> own, so just did a quick install of SL (2.6.27, I'm pretty sure) to
> get me "up & running quickly". This exhibited the symptoms I am about
> to describe, so I decided to migrate across to L-SMB - unfortunately
> that still does exactly the same thing.
>
> Basically, my logos don't print in the invoice. The logo shipped with
> L-SMB will print, but not mine - my best guess is that LaTeX is
> b0rking on the format of the logo files, somehow, but I have no idea
> how because the same logos print fine if I run `latex /path/to/
> invoice.tex` manually.
>
> I have tried a number of different versions of my logo - converted
> using both Adobe's software on my Mac & ImageMagick from the command-
> line on my Linux box. The original art files (from my graphic
> designers) are Adobe Illustrator format and I have tried exporting
> from Adobe as .ai & .eps (using various options, including those to
> make the output compatible with earlier versions of Adobe), BMP and
> PNG. I have tried logos of different sizes and I used the "-format
> png -depth 8" as parameters to mogrify.
>
> It really frustrates me, because trying with this invoice.tex:
>
> \documentclass{minimal}
> \usepackage[a4paper,landscape,dvips]{geometry}
> \geometry{a4paper,landscape,
> nohead,nofoot,
> left=15mm,right=15mm,top=1cm,bottom=1cm}
> \usepackage{graphicx}
> \begin{document}
> \noindent
> top-left\hfill top-right
> \noindent
> \includegraphics[height=2cm]{logo}
> \includegraphics[height=2cm]{logo-outline}
> \par \vfill
> \noindent
> bottom-left\hfill bottom-right
> \end{document}
>
> ... the logo shipped with Ledger-SMB (I created a new templates
> directory for my user, based on the demo templates; I have nor
> renamed or deleted or touched in anyway the L-SMB logos) prints fine,
> but my logo (logo-outline) does not.
>
> Permissions seem to be ok:
>
> # pwd
> /usr/local/ledger-smb
> # ls -l templates/stroller/logo*
> -rw-rw---- 1 apache apache 130059 Apr 16 06:10 templates/stroller/
> logo-outline.eps
> -rw-rw---- 1 apache apache 53379 Apr 16 06:10 templates/stroller/
> logo-outline.png
> -rw-rw---- 1 apache apache 32984 Apr 16 05:52 templates/stroller/
> logo.eps
> -rw-rw---- 1 apache apache 15928 Apr 16 05:52 templates/stroller/
> logo.png
> #
>
> Although it kinda confuses me that my eps logo is so much larger than
> L-SMB's - I'd have thought them to be comparibly simple vector line-
> art - I can't see that being significant because it's still actually
> only 128K and because EXACTLY THE SAME LOGO PRINTS PERFECTLY WHEN I
> COPY THIS FILE INTO MY HOME DIRECTORY & PROCESS IT BY HAND!! (using
> `rubber` or `latex && dvips` doesn't seem to make any difference).
>
> I am using the 3.0_p1-r3 version of Tetex, installed using the
> package manager (Portage) supplied by my distro (Gentoo). I am pretty
> sure that this is the same version I was using on my previous system
> - which worked - but if the minor versions are not exactly the same,
> certainly it was v3 on there (because I remember the upgrade from
> 2.0.2).
>
> Ideally, what I'd love to see is the output of the `latex` command as
> the invoice is compiled. Can anyone tell me if this is logged
> anywhere, or if it's possible to log it?
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
>
> Stroller.
>
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