21 Nov
2020
21 Nov
'20
8:35 p.m.
Hi Pete,
On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 6:29 PM Pete Houston <ph1(a)openstrike.co.uk> wrote:
[snip]
Ok. Then I'll keep my focus on helping you out with this problem, while
continuing down the path that I was already pursuing for other project work.
What I usually do to see what the problem could be, is
to download the
Ok. One of the things that comes to mind is that the PATH and other
environment settings differ between your invocation from the command line
and the invocation from the server. You can inspect the environment
variables defined in the server from setup.pl; after logging into your
company database from setup.pl, you can select the last button on the page
"System Info". On the resulting page, there's a section
"Environment". This
section indicates the environment variables your server is running with.
Mine has a PATH setting of
"/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/pgsql/bin"
which includes the pdflatex binary in /usr/bin.
If your environment doesn't include your `pdflatex` binary, please check
the "ledgersmb.conf" file you may (not) have. If you don't, there's an
example in doc/conf/ledgersmb.conf.default. This config file has an
"[environment]" section which also includes a PATH setting. You can use
that to override the path setting your server starts up with.
rendered template which is used as the latex
input. (The document without
the header and footer lines.) Then I run pdflatex manually on the server
with that file as its input. If there is a problem with the template or
with the pdflatex setup, running from a terminal shows 90% of the
problems.
I actually did that a couple of days ago when the printing returned the
latex source rather than the postscript - I was able to run that by hand
and it seemed to process fine. The resulting postscript looked OK and
there were no errors that I could determine.
I have re-done it now (having removed the 1st and last lines to allow
delivery of the latex to the user) and here is the full output:
I can't see anything specifically alarming about this output...
[snip]
The most up-to-date documentation for templating
that I have is:
https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/blob/master/doc/templating/templatin…
; recently I started to collect all available
template variables, with
the
intent to document them. The variables are
available (by name) at
https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/wiki/Template-variables.
Let me know where your priorities lie, that'll help focus the effort to
the
immediately useful.
Really, we need to get the postscript/pdf output working. Not being able
to generate printable invoices is a stopper. If there's any extra
debugging or similar that we can enable to track down why the latex
process is giving these failures that would be great.
In the meantime I will go through the templating guide
and see if there
is anything in there which I can use to solve this.
Thanks again,
You're welcome!
Regards,
--
Bye,
Erik.
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