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DrRacket scribble pdf - could not find a pdflatex executable #553

Closed maymunashah closed 2 years ago

maymunashah commented 2 years ago

I am new to dr racket and was trying to use scribble documentation. Scribble html works perfectly for me but I tried to use scribble pdf button available to me but it gives me this error.

Welcome to DrRacket, version 8.4 [cs]. Language: scribble/base, with debugging; memory limit: 128 MB. scribble: loading xref scribble: rendering . . C:\Program Files\Racket\share\pkgs\scribble-lib\scribble\private\run-pdflatex.rkt:77:0: run-pdflatex: could not find a `pdflatex' executable

Any idea how to resolve this. Btw. Im using windows 10.

jryans commented 2 years ago

pdflatex is not included with Racket, so you'll need to install that separately if you want to generate PDFs. There are various options available, perhaps a LaTeX distribution from https://www.latex-project.org/get/ is a good path to try.

soegaard commented 2 years ago

Yes, download a TeX distribution.

I can recommend TeX Live: https://tug.org/texlive/

maymunashah commented 2 years ago

pdflatex is not included with Racket, so you'll need to install that separately if you want to generate PDFs. There are various options available, perhaps a LaTeX distribution from https://www.latex-project.org/get/ is a good path to try.

You were right i actually hadn't installed latex. I installed latex, copied pdflatex file from mktex directory and pasted in racket files. i can now generate pdfs easily. Bundle of thanks 😊

maymunashah commented 2 years ago

Yes, download a TeX distribution.

I can recommend TeX Live: https://tug.org/texlive/

I actually did mktex and it works now. Thankyou!