Re: Using Latex to create PDFs

[Dave Coventry <..hidden..>]

Stroller wrote:
>  The email button should be at the foot of the page when you're
>  preparing a new Sales Invoice (under AR). On L-SMB it should be after
>  the "Update", "Print", "Post" & "Ship to" buttons but before the
>  "Schedule" button.
>
>
>  Ok, cool.
>
>  From the last line "if the server can't find gzip, latex, dvips or
>  pdflatex, add the path" - I assume this is set correctly.

Yes. All the apps listed are accessible in /usr/bin which is on the $PATH.

>  That's probably a Clupea Rubra - LaTeX allows you to install many
>  additional packages for extra features, and I'm pretty sure that's
>  what this is referring to. It simply looks like the document you
>  chose happens to have included a template to format it according to
>  the page-layout & typographical conventions of the Royal Astronomical
>  Society newsletter.
>  <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/nonfree/macros/latex/contrib/mnras/>
>
>
>  Nevertheless, the above seems to suggest you have LaTeX installed
>  properly.
>
>  <much searching later...>
>
>  Seems like my suggestion to "try any .tex file you can Google" was a
>  little flip.
>
>  Try this:
<http://meos.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/meos/eoslx/kernel/doc/Documentation/devices.tex>
>  The invoice templates in Ledger-SMB (& SL) use only LaTeX's standard
>  features, as does the above.

Pretty much the same result for that document:
=================== snip ==========================
bayserver:~ # latex devices.tex && dvipdf devices.dvi
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
entering extended mode
(./devices.tex
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
ngerman, b
ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch,
esperanto, e
stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin, magyar,
norsk, polis
h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish,
swedish, tur
kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded.

! LaTeX Error: File `latex209.def' not found.

Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: def)

Enter file name: x

dvips: ! Couldn't find header file tex.pro

=================== snip ==========================

>  I have to admit that you have pretty much exhausted my capacity to
>  help. All that should be required for emailing PDFs is LaTeX to be
>  installed correctly and for it to be enabled in the .conf file.
>
>  Is sendmail (or a /usr/sbin/sendmail substitute such as Postfix or
>  SSMTP) installed correctly? What does `grep -i sendmail
>  /usr/local/ledger-smb/ledgersmb.conf` say? (or the SL equivalent, I
>  mean)

I believe sendmail is installed correctly:
=================== snip ==========================
bayserver:~ # which sendmail
/usr/sbin/sendmail
bayserver:~ # grep -i sendmail /opt/sql-ledger/sql-ledger.conf
use vars qw($userspath $spool $memberfile $templates $sendmail $language
$sid $latex %printer $gzip);
# location of sendmail
$sendmail = "| /usr/sbin/sendmail -t";
=================== snip ==========================

>  When you're composing an invoice do you see a set of 3 drop-downs at
>  the foot of the page? The first says "Invoice", "Pick List", "Packing
>  List" and the last lists configured printers. Does the middle
>  drop-down give you Postscript & PDF options? There's also an HTML
>  option on my system.

see attached screenshots.
The first has "Transaction" and "Receipt", no mention of  "Invoice",
"Pick List", "Packing List".

>  Stroller.


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