[racket] Generating PDF from Scribble on Windows

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 11 14:31:12 EDT 2015

The issue appears to be that DrRacket doesn't know how to open a pdf on windows.

Can this person use the command-line:

  "scribble --pdf file.scrbl"

will produce file.pdf.

Robby

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Prabhakar Ragde <plragde at uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> I'm working with our online/distance-learning people to set up a course, and
> creating my slides in Scribble using the "Scribble PDF" button. A change in
> personnel is coming up, and the new developer is using Windows. My current
> developer is using OS X like I am, and he reports with some alarm that
> DrRacket in Windows is missing the "Scribble PDF" button when editing a
> Scribble file. The buttons that are visible (I have a screenshot if anyone
> needs it) are Debug, Check Syntax, Macro Stepper, Scribble HTML, Run, Stop.
> The Windows machine has LaTeX installed. Can anyone diagnose this issue?
> Thanks. --PR
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