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From: Robert Klein <roklein@roklein.de>
Subject: Re: minimal testing setup for pdf export?
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 08:14:03 +0200
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To: Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>
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On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 21:20:53 -0400
Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:

> Can someone point me to a minimal setup for testing PDF export with
> "emacs -Q"? I am unable to produce a pdf with default settings and I
> am pretty sure  that the latex is invalid... but I'm having trouble
> testing it since I 9still) know so little about latex.
>=20
> Thanks everyone!
>=20
> Matt

What is in your *messages* buffer after the export attempt?

Whats the result when you export a blank =E2=80=9Cempty.org=E2=80=9D file t=
o LaTeX (C-c
C-e l l)? I get

--- snip ---
% Created 2019-08-27 Tue 08:10
% Intended LaTeX compiler: pdflatex
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{grffile}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{capt-of}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\author{Robert Klein}
\date{\today}
\title{}
\hypersetup{
 pdfauthor=3D{Robert Klein},
 pdftitle=3D{},
 pdfkeywords=3D{},
 pdfsubject=3D{},
 pdfcreator=3D{Emacs 26.2 (Org mode 9.1.9)},=20
 pdflang=3D{English}}
\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\end{document}
--- snip ---

Just in case, do you have latex/pdflatex installed and in your path?

Best regards
Robert