Converting EPS about latextools

[msiniscalchi]

Pls see my reply to your earlier message.

[msiniscalchi]

[Copied from my earlier message for ease of reference]

Hmm... sorry to hear this. Couple of things: is the testimg file in the same directory as test.tex? Second, is this a simple one-file tex document, or is there a root file + included files? Finally, just to be sure, could you try running latexmk as follows:

latexmk -e "$pdflatex = 'pdflatex %O -synctex=1 %S'" -f -pdf epstest

which is the exact line used by the ST2/LaTeXTools build system?

[chrispx]

Hi,

msiniscalchi: is the testimg file in the same directory as test.tex?
chrispx: It happens when the file is in the same dir and also when a path is given with "graphicspath"

msiniscalchi: is this a simple one-file tex document, or is there a root file + included files?
chrispx: root file + included files, but it also happens with simple file structure.

msiniscalchi: try running latexmk as follows: latexmk -e "$pdflatex = 'pdflatex %O -synctex=1 %S'" -f -pdf epstest
chrispx: This gives the following error

chrispsmbai5:epstest chrisp$ latexmk -e "$pdflatex = 'pdflatex %O -synctex=1 %S'" -f -pdf
Latexmk: Stopping because executing following code from command line
= 'pdflatex %O -synctex=1 %S'
gave an error:
syntax error at (eval 15) line 1, near "="

[msiniscalchi]

Sorry, I messed up: the command line should be

latexmk -e "$pdflatex = 'pdflatex %O -synctex=1 %S'" -f -pdf epstest

Also, could you attach the simplest possible test file(s), i.e. one eps picture, a single tex file?

[chrispx]

This line (latexmk -e "$pdflatex = 'pdflatex %O -synctex=1 %S'" -f -pdf epstest) works fine and produces the pdf from the eps file as expected. I immediately double checked with SL2 and it did not. The same error is shown as before:

/Users/chrisp/Desktop/test/epstest/epstest.tex:15: Package pdftex.def Error: File `cc-eps-converted-to.pdf' not found. [\includegraphics{cc}]

Under [1] the tex, eps and the log file can be downloaded.

[1] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/41850/epstest.zip

[msiniscalchi]

This looks bad. I can definitely reproduce the issue. What's more, TeXworks has no problem compiling this (selecting the latexmk "engine"). As far as I can tell, I am passing the exact same command line to latexmk as TeXworks (it was a little different, but I now made it exactly the same). Yet, no PDF is created.

The problem is that it seems like the (r)epstopdf command is never actually invoked. The log file states that running the appropriate system command is allowed / safe, but then somehow nothing happens...

I'll dig some more as soon as I can, and report back.

[chrispx]

Thanks for the feedback. I will stay tuned in order to test your ideas...

[msiniscalchi]

OK, I have confusing news. I wrote a python script that duplicates the commands in the make_pdf.py file, except in a linear way. I ran it from the command line: bingo, no problem at all. The file gets compiled, the eps file is converted, and latexmk is happy as a clam.

However, if I run the exact same script from the console in Sublime Text, it fails---the eps file does not get converted. Inspecting the log shows that epstopdf was invoked, but did not actually run---exactly what happens when I build from ST2.

I suspect there's something funny going on when a process launched from an ST2 plugin in turn invokes another process. But, I'm surprised, as "make" and indeed "latexmk" surely run a host of other processes!

I'll have to ask jps.

[chrispx]

Thanks for the reply! I hope the issue will be solved soon. Because at the moment I have to switch all the time to the command line...

Best
Christian

[chrispx]

Any news on this issue, msiniscalchi?

[msiniscalchi]

I'm really sorry... I've been pestering jps in the tech support forum:

http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3459

however, to date, there is no answer. I'll try a couple more things,
plus a bit of "social engineering" :-) The trouble is, if it's a ST2
limitation, there's nothing I can do about it.

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:41 AM, chrispx
[email protected]
wrote:

Any news on this issue, msiniscalchi?

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Marciano Siniscalchi
Economics Department, Northwestern University
http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~msi661

[chrispx]

Any news on this issue?

[chrispx]

Just played a bit more.

It now seems like to be a latexmk issue in connection with the restricted -shell-escape for e.g. epstopdf when eps files are in a different directory as the main tex file. What I did.

I used TextMate added the option "-shell-escape" and compiled with pdflatex my tex file (with eps files on a different path on dropbox) and it worked fine (no extra "epstopdf" package loading in the tex file). "pdflatex" from the command line w/o the -shell-escape does not work.

Then, I used the latexmk in TextMate and the conversion of the eps to a pdf file failed.

Two ideas: Could you please provide different build engines as TeXworks or TeXShop (pdflatex, biblatex with biber etc.)? If you could build in the -shell-escape then with pdflatex it should work.

[msiniscalchi]

That's easy to do: open the file named

LaTeX.sublime-build

and look in the "osx" section, specifically the "cmd" setting. Change
the line that says

"-e", "$pdflatex = q/pdflatex -synctex=1 %O %S/",

so it reads

"-e", "$pdflatex = q/pdflatex -shell-escape -synctex=1 %O %S/",

[the comma at the end is important]. This simply tells latexmk to add
the -shell-escape switch when running pdflatex.

Now, I still think there's something weird going on, because the
-shell-escape is not needed when (1) running from the terminal, and
(2) running a python script launched from the terminal that in turn
invokes the latexmk command, as I did in my tests. Also, I feel a bit
queasy about enabling -shell-escape by default. I'd rather add a
comment in the README about it.

Hopefully Jon will get back to me at some point.

BTW, are you "trinix" in the ST2 forums? Or is there another user with
the exact same problem you are having?

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:52 AM, chrispx
[email protected]
wrote:

Just played a bit more.

It now seems like to be a latexmk issue in connection with the restricted -shell-escape for e.g. epstopdf when eps files are in a different directory as the main tex file. What I did.

I used TextMate added the option "-shell-escape" and compiled my tex file (with eps files on a different path on dropbox) and it worked fine (no extra "epstopdf" package loading in the tex file).

Then, I used the latexmk in TextMate and the conversion of the eps to a pdf file failed.

Two ideas: Could you please provide different build engines as TeXworks or TeXShop (pdflatex, biblatex with biber etc.)? If you could build in the -shell-escape then with pdflatex it should work.

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Marciano Siniscalchi
Economics Department, Northwestern University
http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~msi661

[chrispx]

In my case, this is not working because latexmk is used. As I said, in my tests it only worked with pdflatex...

BTW:
The line in my "LaTeX.sublime-build" look as follows:

"cmd": ["latexmk",
"-e", "$pdflatex = 'pdflatex %O -synctex=1 %S'",
"-f", "-pdf"],

Best
Christian (trinix)

[msiniscalchi]

Sure, latexmk invokes pdflatex. The line I mentioned tells latexmk
which flags to pass to pdflatex.

Also, sorry---your line looks fine: I think I just tried /q.../ to see
if it made a difference, and forgot to revert it back on my machine at
work. Just try

"cmd": ["latexmk",
                               "-e", "$pdflatex = 'pdflatex %O
-shell-escape -synctex=1 %S'",
                               "-f", "-pdf"],

In the meantime I'm also trying something else jps suggested. I'll
report back...

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:31 PM, chrispx
[email protected]
wrote:

In my case, this is not working because latexmk is used. As I said, in my tests it only worked with pdflatex...

BTW:
The line in my "LaTeX.sublime-build" look as follows:

"cmd": ["latexmk",
                               "-e", "$pdflatex = 'pdflatex %O -synctex=1 %S'",
                               "-f", "-pdf"],

Best
Christian (trinix)

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Marciano Siniscalchi
Economics Department, Northwestern University
http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~msi661

[msiniscalchi]

SOLVED!

epstopdf runs ghostscript to do its magic. Unfortunately, gs is
installed in /usr/local/bin on OSX. This directory is added to the
PATH in the Terminal (shell), but not if you run ST2 from the dock or
finder. Hence the problems we are experiencing.

Solution: open LaTeX.sublime-build and, in the "osx" section, add
"/usr/local/bin" to the "path" variable. In the end, your line should
be something like:

"path" : "$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin",

[note the comma at the end]. This fixed the issue for me.

Yay! I'll push the change as soon as I have some time.

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Marciano Siniscalchi
[email protected] wrote:

Sure, latexmk invokes pdflatex. The line I mentioned tells latexmk
which flags to pass to pdflatex.

Also, sorry---your line looks fine: I think I just tried /q.../ to see
if it made a difference, and forgot to revert it back on my machine at
work. Just try

"cmd": ["latexmk",
                               "-e", "$pdflatex = 'pdflatex %O
-shell-escape -synctex=1 %S'",
                               "-f", "-pdf"],

In the meantime I'm also trying something else jps suggested. I'll
report back...

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:31 PM, chrispx
[email protected]
wrote:

In my case, this is not working because latexmk is used. As I said, in my tests it only worked with pdflatex...

BTW:
The line in my "LaTeX.sublime-build" look as follows:

"cmd": ["latexmk",
                               "-e", "$pdflatex = 'pdflatex %O -synctex=1 %S'",
                               "-f", "-pdf"],

Best
Christian (trinix)

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Marciano Siniscalchi
Economics Department, Northwestern University
http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~msi661

Marciano Siniscalchi
Economics Department, Northwestern University
http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~msi661

[chrispx]

EXELLENT!!!

Nice to hear, that the issue could be solved. Nevertheless, I still do need (what is ok for me) a -shell-escape as an option for compilation. Here my build code:

"cmd": ["latexmk",
"-e", "$pdflatex = 'pdflatex %O -shell-escape -synctex=1 %S'",
"-f", "-pdf"],

    "path": "$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin",

I think that is because of the directory structure I use for my LaTeX projects. I have a "teximg" folder for images on my Dropbox. This folder is symlink'ed (works fine with svn) to my LaTeX-project and used with "graphicspath". Now, when I compile a tex file with eps, the pdf needs to be created back via symlink in the original folder on Dropbox. This may cause the need for a -shell-escape. What do you think?

Create work and create support!

Thanks a lot,
Christian

[msiniscalchi]

Hm... I don't know; it may be necessary in your setup. I didn't need
it though. M

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 12:57 AM, chrispx
[email protected]
wrote:

EXELLENT!!!

Nice to hear, that the issue could be solved. Nevertheless, I still do need (what is ok for me) a -shell-escape as an option for compilation. Here my build code:

"cmd": ["latexmk",
                               "-e", "$pdflatex = 'pdflatex %O -shell-escape -synctex=1 %S'",
                               "-f", "-pdf"],

               "path": "$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin",

I think that is because of the directory structure I use for my LaTeX projects. I have a "teximg" folder for images on my Dropbox. This folder is symlink'ed (works fine with svn) to my LaTeX-project and used with "graphicspath". Now, when I compile a tex file with eps, the pdf needs to be created back via symlink in the original folder on Dropbox. This may cause the need for a -shell-escape. What do you think?

Create work and create support!

Thanks a lot,
Christian

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[chrispx]

Thanks!

[amr2393]

Hi,

I'm now having the same issue on Windows, and adding the path to ghostscript in LaTeX.sublime-build doesn't seem to help

This is the error message I get:

LaTeX Error: File `image1' not found. [...ne{\includegraphics[width=8.5cm]{image1}}]

Thanks in advance for any help

[msiniscalchi]

Are you on MikTeX or TeXlive?

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 5:06 AM, amr2393 [email protected] wrote:

Hi,

I'm now having the same issue on Windows, and adding the path to
ghostscript in LaTeX.sublime-build doesn't seem to help

This is the error message I get:

LaTeX Error: File `image1' not found.
[...ne{\includegraphics[width=8.5cm]{image1}}]

Thanks in advance for any help

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Economics Department, Northwestern University
http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~msi661

[amr2393]

I'm using MikTeX

[kasclark]

I was getting an error message about a syntax error when running the following build command.

-COMMAND-
latexmk -e $pdflatex = 'pdflatex %O -synctex=1 %S' -f -pdf document.tex

-ERROR-
Latexmk: Stopping because executing following code from command line
=
gave an error:
syntax error at (eval 15) line 1, near "="

I'm on a Mac using TexLive via MacPorts. This installs everything in /opt/local/bin/. I simply appended this to the path variable found in LaTeX.sublime-build (~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/LaTeXTools/) and the error message went away. Everything compiles just fine now.

[jintiangufei]

Hi,
I am using the sublime3 text's latex. Now i want to use eps files in the pdflatex. Having tried to use your proposed method, it still doesn't work. My latex.sublime_build file is as follows:

/* Let's not preview for now. This should be OK on Win/MikTeX, too (?) /
/ Make sure latexmk is on the $PATH, AND add it to .MacOSX/environment.plist */

{
"cmd": ["latexmk",
"-e", "\$pdflatex = 'pdflatex %O -shell-escape -file-line-error --max-print-line=200 -synctex=1 %S'",
"-e", "\$pdf_previewer = qq{if [ -n "ps axww | grep Skim | grep -v grep" ] ; then osascript -e 'tell app "Skim" to revert front document' ; else open -a Skim %O %S ; fi}",
//"-e", "\$pdf_previewer = qq{/Applications/Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport/displayline -g -r 0 %S}",
"-pv", "-pdf", "$file"],
"working_dir": "$file_path", /* crucial or latexmk will spew stuff in /!!! /
"file_regex": "^(...?):([0-9]+): ([0-9]*)([^\\.]+)",
"selector": "text.tex.latex",
"path" : "$PATH:/usr/local/bin",

// Windows-specific command
// ASSUMES sumatrapdf is default viewer
// Only problem is that it comes to the foreground
"windows":
	{
		"cmd": ["texify", "-b", "-p",
		"--tex-option=\"--synctex=1\"", 
		"--tex-option=\"--max-print-line=200\"", 
		"--tex-option=\"-file-line-error\"",
		"--run-viewer",
		"--viewer-option=\"-reuse-instance\"",
		"$file"]
	}

}
Please help me to solve the problem, thanks very much!