That means emacs is not finding pdflatex on your path. A little more information might help. 1. In a terminal, if you type: > which pdflatex to you get anything? 2. How do you launch emacs? If you are launching it from some icon, you might not be getting the same path environment as from a shell. John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 4:37 PM, Dereje Tefera wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > thank you very much for the response. > > Rishabh, yes i have check the link you mentioned. > > the error says "'pdflatex"' is not recognized as an internal or external > command, > operable program or batch file." but i have that in my init.el file > configured. > > > > > > > Regards > > Dereje > > > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 6:28 AM, R Jain wrote: > >> Hi Dereje, >> >> Have you already looked at (8) from https://orgmode.org/worg/ >> org-tutorials/org-latex-export.html? >> >> --Rishabh >> >> On Mar 12 2018, at 5:40 pm, Dereje Tefera wrote: >> >>> Dear good team of Org-mode, >>> >>> I am using org-mode in the Emacs, but I have a problem exporting to >>> Latex, PDF. >>> >>> "I always have this message that says, PDF was not produced, when i try >>> to export to latex pdf. >>> >>> >>> I can export to HTML or tet latex but not to pdf. >>> >>> >>> Any help would be highly appreciated. >>> >>> >>> Thank you for your time. >>> >>> >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Dereje >>> >>> >>> >