Re: Exporting PDF (new setup)

[Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>]

Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> writes:

> Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> writes:
>
>> On Mon, May 01 2017, Peter Davis wrote:
>>> I'm running Org 8.2.10 on a new MacBook with El Capitan as the OS. I can't seem to get PDF export working. I get these messages:
>>>
>>> Processing LaTeX file ./blahblahblah.tex...
>>> /bin/bash: pdflatex: command not found [3 times]
>>> org-latex-compile: PDF file ./blahblahblah.pdf wasn’t produced
>>>
>>> I did install basictex, and when I enter pdflatex on the command line, it works with no problems. Any clues why org export isn't
>>> finding the executable?
>>
>> This:
>>
>> https://github.com/purcell/exec-path-from-shell
>>
>> perhaps?
>
> Ah! Thank you. That's gotten me past the first problem.
>
> Now I'm getting:
>
> Wrote /Users/peterdavis/Dropbox/Org/blahblahblah.tex
> Processing LaTeX file ./blahblahblah.tex...
> org-latex-compile: PDF file ./blahblahblah.pdf wasn’t produced: [LaTeX error]
>
> I suppose I have to have to debug this like any LaTeX file.
>
> Thank you, Joost.
>

As a first step, switch to buffer *Org PDF LaTeX Output* and check for errors.

-- 
Nick