Re: org2pdf export broken on parabola

[Divan Santana <divan@santanas.co.za>]

Hi Aaron,

Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Divan,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> 2016ko abuztuak 28an, Divan Santana-ek idatzi zuen:
>>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>>
>> My initial post was a lacking detail, sorry...
>>
>> So, on parabola Linux, a simply org file, like this:
>>
>> QUOTE
>> * Test
>>
>> Testing org export to pdf via latex, on parabola Linux.
>> END QUOTE
>>
>> If I try export via C-c C-e l p
>>
>> results in a blank PDF.
>>
>> The *Org PDF LaTeX Output* buffer contains this:
>>
>> QUOTE
>> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.17 (TeX Live 2016/Parabola) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
>>  restricted \write18 enabled.
>> entering extended mode
>> (/home/admin/ownCloud/documents/org/test.tex
>> LaTeX2e <2016/03/31> patch level 3
>> Babel <3.9r> and hyphenation patterns for 83 language(s) loaded.
>> (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
>> Document Class: article 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
>> (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size11.clo))
>> (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
>> (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/utf8.def
>> (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/t1enc.dfu)
>> (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ot1enc.dfu)
>> (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/omsenc.dfu)))
>> (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
>> (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)
>> kpathsea: Running mktextfm ecrm1095
>> mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1095
>> This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182818 (TeX Live 2016/Parabola) (preloaded base=mf)
>>
>> kpathsea: Running mktexmf ecrm1095
>>
>> ! I can't find file `ecrm1095'.
>> <*> ...ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1095
>
> [...snip the rest...]
>
> This log indicates that the problem occurs during the loading of the
> fontenc package.  Fontenc is a good package to load, apparently:
> <https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/664/why-should-i-use-usepackaget1fontenc>.
>
> You can probably fix this error by either removing the entry for the
> fontenc package from org-latex-default-packages-alist, or setting
> org-latex-compiler to either lualatex or xelatex (newer latex compilers
> neither of which use fontenc).  Of course, either of these might uncover
> further problems (the parabola approach to packaging texlive seems
> pretty haphazard), but I believe either step would fix the problem you
> have reported.

Brilliant. Simple work around. Glad to have this working.

Thanks a ton!