can't make the pdf

[liwei-lai]

When I generate the pdf of the cn version of this book, following error will occur:

markdown2pdf: /tmp/pandoc/redis.log: hGetContents: invalid argument (invalid UTF-8 byte sequence)

I am already search google and some documents, but i can't solve the problem. How should i do for it?

And i can use pandoc to generate the epub successfully.

[arturdryomov]

This issue should be fixed now.

[fgm]

Same problem here (on Ubuntu 12.04): cannot build PDF, even with various fixes over the initial error, but the EPUB builds normally.

[arturdryomov]

@FGM Do you have required dependencies installed? If yes, please provide an errors log.

[fgm]

Yes, the dependencies are installed. After a few tweaks (missing Menlo font, notably), I'm stuck with this error:

cd en && pandoc --latex-engine xelatex --template ../common/pdf-template.tex --listings redis.md -o redis.pdf pandoc: Error producing PDF from TeX source. This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) entering extended mode (/tmp/tex2pdf5895/input.tex LaTeX2e <2009/09/24> Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh yphenation, loaded. (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/book.cls Document Class: book 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/bk10.clo)) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/fontspec/fontspec.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/ifxetex/ifxetex.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/tools/calc.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkeyval.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/xkeyval/xkeyval.tex (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/xkeyval/keyval.tex))) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/euenc/eu1enc.def) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/euenc/eu1lmr.fd)) fontspec.cfg loaded. (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/fontspec/fontspec.cfg)) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/sectsty/sectsty.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/polyglossia/polyglossia.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/etoolbox/etoolbox.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/etex-pkg/etex.sty))) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/polyglossia/gloss-english.ldf) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/preprint/fullpage.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/setspace/setspace.sty Package: `setspace' 6.7 <2000/12/01> ) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/ltxmisc/parskip.sty) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/xcolor/xcolor.sty (/etc/texmf/tex/latex/config/color.cfg) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/xetex-def/xetex.def)) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/listings/listings.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/listings/lstmisc.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/listings/listings.cfg)) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/hyperref/hyperref.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifpdf.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifvtex.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/oberdiek/hycolor.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/oberdiek/xcolor-patch.sty)) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/hyperref/pd1enc.def) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/oberdiek/etexcmds.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/oberdiek/infwarerr.sty)) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/xetexconfig/hyperref.cfg) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/oberdiek/kvoptions.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/oberdiek/kvsetkeys.sty)) Implicit mode ON; LaTeX internals redefined (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/ltxmisc/url.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/oberdiek/bitset.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/oberdiek/intcalc.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/oberdiek/bigintcalc.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/oberdiek/pdftexcmds.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifluatex.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/oberdiek/ltxcmds.sty)))) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/oberdiek/atbegshi.sty)) hyperref using driver hdvipdfm (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/hyperref/hdvipdfm.def) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty) (/etc/texmf/tex/latex/config/graphics.cfg))) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/tools/enumerate.sty) No file input.aux. (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/hyperref/nameref.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/oberdiek/refcount.sty))

Package hyperref Warning: Rerun to get /PageLabels entry.

<use "title.png" > [0] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7 * WARNING * Invalid glyph name index number: 1305 (>= 1305) * WARNING * Invalid version 2.0 'post' table * ERROR * Could not obtain necessary font info.

Output file removed.

make: *\ [en/redis.pdf] Erreur 43

[arturdryomov]

@FGM It seems strange… Are Microsoft fonts installed? You mentioned Menlo, but does Verdana exist?

[fgm]

Yes Verdana exists. Turns out the problem was with the Menlo replacement: Menlo is an Apple font, not available on Linux by default (is it actually free anyway?), so I had used "Ubuntu Mono". Switching to "Liberation Mono" solved the problem for me. Maybe this would be worth a mention in the config file: not all platforms have access to the same fonts and some fonts may have a problem with this source (missing glyph ?).

[dloureiro]

For the french translation of the book (dloureiro / the-little-redis-book) I got the same problem. Working on linux and mac at the same time I choose to go for DejaVu font (not yet pushed on the repo btw). It looks good and seems close to Menlo (in a way:)). And of course works on linux and mac.

[arturdryomov]

Well, it was @karlseguin’s decision to use these fonts. @karlseguin, what do you think about this? I support @FGM’s proposition—to mention possible fonts problems in the readme file. I could prepare this small pull request if everybody will be happy and the problem will be considered as solved.

[karlseguin]

Yes please.

Writing another one (shhhh) and I'd love to be able to incorporate a better build into it.