Re: [O] minimal testing setup for pdf export?

[Matt Price]

My empty.tex is very similar:

% Created 2019-08-27 Tue 06:25
% 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}
\date{\today}
\title{}
\hypersetup{
 pdfauthor={},
 pdftitle={},
 pdfkeywords={},
 pdfsubject={},
 pdfcreator={Emacs 27.0.50 (Org mode 9.1.9)},
 pdflang={English}}
\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\end{document}

Th pdf is still not being produced:

org-compile-file: File "/home/matt/empty.pdf" wasn’t produced.  See "*Org PDF LaTeX Output*" for details

Org LDF LaTeX Output says:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019/Arch Linux) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
! I can't find file `empty.tex'.
<*> empty.tex
             
(Press Enter to retry, or Control-D to exit)
Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> empty.tex
             
!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Transcript written on .//texput.log.

However, empty.tex is clearly present.  Latex and pdflatex are both in my $PATH. 

Maybe this is a problem with pdflatex?

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 2:14 AM Robert Klein <address@hidden> wrote:

On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 21:20:53 -0400
Matt Price <address@hidden> 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.
>
> Thanks everyone!
>
> Matt

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

Whats the result when you export a blank “empty.org” file to 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={Robert Klein},
 pdftitle={},
 pdfkeywords={},
 pdfsubject={},
 pdfcreator={Emacs 26.2 (Org mode 9.1.9)},
 pdflang={English}}
\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

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

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

Best regards
Robert