[racket-dev] scribble pdf

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Tue May 24 00:23:21 EDT 2011

It is hard to read that lots, tho. What I typically do in those situations is:

  scribble --latex --dest junk file.scrbl  ; cd junk ; pdflatex file

and then pdflatex will stop in the middle somewhere in a relevant
place so you can see what is going on.

Robby

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> Three minutes ago, Jay McCarthy wrote:
>> 2011/5/23 Eli Barzilay <eli at 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.
>
> Should be *before* it, not after.
>
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