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diff --git a/content/posts/ecrm1000.tfm-latex-issues.md b/content/posts/ecrm1000.tfm-latex-issues.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0ee4a2d --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/ecrm1000.tfm-latex-issues.md @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +--- +title: "Pandoc TXT to PDF exporting ecrm1000.tfm issues" +date: 2018-11-26T10:41:00 +tags: ["formats", "linux", "snippets", "software"] +--- + +Recently I was experimenting with [paperless](https://github.com/danielquinn/paperless) and importing a number of files to see how the software handled things. Over the course of this experiment the only files that didn't seem to be accepted were plain txt files. + +A simple solution (or so I thought) would be to convert these to PDF, and just run the import again. Pandoc is my goto choice for all types of textual documentation management, so I threw the files through the following command: + +``` +for i in *.txt; do pandoc "$i" -o "${i%txt}pdf"; done +``` + +Which helpfully gave me: +``` +pdflatex not found. Please select a different --pdf-engine or install pdflatex +``` +This can be remedied via: +``` +sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-recommended +``` +Which then nets you: +``` +Error producing PDF. +! Font T1/cmr/m/n/10=ecrm1000 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. +``` + +This incredibly helpful message can be resolved via: +``` +sudo apt-get install texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-latex-recommended +``` + +Which finally produces acceptable PDF files using the very first command. Phew.
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