21 Nov
2020
21 Nov
'20
5:29 p.m.
Hi Erik,
On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 12:29:02PM +0100, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
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,
Pete
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That's correct: the directory is transient and
that makes this a bit hard
to diagnose. The reason the log file is being opened for input (by
LedgerSMB) is that it tries to establish whether a re-run would be required
to resolve any references within the document. This isn't usually the case
for invoices, but the driver is a generic LaTeX runner, so for other types
of documents this may matter (and we cannot exclude people using documents
where it *does* matter).
That all makes sense - thanks.
What I usually do to see what the problem could be, is
to download the
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:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
entering extended mode
(./goagain.tex
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, b
ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, e
stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin, magyar, norsk, polis
h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish, swedish, tur
kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/koma-script/scrartcl.cls
Document Class: scrartcl 2004/09/16 v2.9t LaTeX2e KOMA document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/koma-script/scrlfile.sty
Package scrlfile, 2004/09/16 v2.9t LaTeX2e KOMA package
Copyright (C) Markus Kohm
) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size11.clo)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/koma-script/typearea.sty
Package typearea, 2004/09/16 v2.9t LaTeX2e KOMA package
Copyright (C) Frank Neukam, 1992-1994
Copyright (C) Markus Kohm, 1994-2002
)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/xypic/xy.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/xypic/xy.tex Bootstrap'ing: catcodes, docmode,
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/xypic/xyrecat.tex)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/xypic/xyidioms.tex)
Xy-pic version 3.7 <1999/02/16>
Copyright (c) 1991-1998 by Kristoffer H. Rose <krisrose(a)ens-lyon.fr>
Xy-pic is free software: see the User's Guide for details.
Loading kernel: messages; fonts; allocations: state, direction,
utility macros; pictures: \xy, positions, objects, decorations;
kernel objects: directionals, circles, text; options; algorithms: directions,
edges, connections; Xy-pic loaded)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/xypic/xyframe.tex
Xy-pic option: Frame and Bracket extension v.3.7 loaded))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/tools/tabularx.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/tools/array.sty))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/tools/longtable.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latin1.def))
LaTeX Warning: Unused global option(s):
[a4wide].
No file goagain.aux.
Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 52--102
Overfull \hbox (298.76408pt too wide) in alignment at lines 145--151
[] [] [] [] [] [] []
Package longtable Warning: Column widths have changed
(longtable) in table 1 on input line 151.
Package longtable Warning: Table widths have changed. Rerun LaTeX.
Overfull \hbox (6.98332pt too wide) has occurred while \output is active
|[]
Overfull \vbox (4.47362pt too high) has occurred while \output is active
[1] (./goagain.aux) )
(see the transcript file for additional information)
Output written on goagain.dvi (1 page, 1984 bytes).
Transcript written on goagain.log.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This has produced a .dvi file and I can convert that to postscript with
dvips just fine.
Just as a side-note, which version of LaTeX::Driver
are you using? (`perl
-MLaTeX::Driver -e 'print "$LaTeX::Driver::VERSION\n";'` should tell
you.)
It is version 0.300.2.
Ok. This looks good in terms of the number of newline
characters at the end.
Great - we can rule that out.
I would
appreciate any further insight you might have. If there is
up-to-date documentation for the templates that would be good to see also.
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.