Category: LaTeX
Launching Acrobat-Reader with Relative Filenames
Today I noticed once again, that texmaker only supports the following command to launch the newly generated .pdf file.
Actually AcrobatReader does not like that, since he won't find the .pdf file, since it is not a absolute path.
To fix that problem I wrote a small .bat-file called run_in_current_dir.bat and put that in my home directory.
Contents:
Now I put in the line for automatic pdf display the following:
Hope that helps anyone else expiriencing problems with relative filenames and acrobat reader.
Getting LaTeX to work on Windows
After I got the following errors:
when trying:
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\includegraphics{filename.jpg}
And those errors on a .tex file (a friend gave me):
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I found no \bibdata command
I found no \bibstyle command
and several other issues with my latex editors on windows machines, I finally figured out to convert that tex to pdf.
First of all I installed the miktex latex command line tools. I downloaded basic version here, worked fine.
TexnicCenter and LEd can't manage to edit UTF-8 files. So I needed to stick with texmaker (which works also on linux and mac os). To get utf-8 working there, I switched to Options -> Configure Texmaker and turned Font to utf-8.
After I got those issues with includegraphics tags, I changed the 'fast translation'-key F1 to PdfLatex -> ViewPDF (in options) and: It workes well, even with those images.
