[XeTeX] Re(2): no pdf?

[Willem]

Thanks for your reply; the console is attached.

I've actually never run xetex from the terminal window; what's the
command? runexetex <filename>? is a filepath necessary?

Willem

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Willem Smelik
University College London



12:45 Friday, September 7, 2007 Jonathan Jonathan Kew sent the following
message:

>On 7 Sep 2007, at 12:08 pm, Willem wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently installed the texlive-distribution, the complete thing
>> installed (so usr/local/texlive), with TeXshop and XeTeX. TeXshop
>> appears to work as usual (following the instructions for the
>> preferences), and tells me that it wrote the fielename.pdf away.
>>
>> However, no pdf appears in a separate window, nor is there any pdf- 
>> file
>> on my drive. Any advice?
>
>It sounds like an output driver problem of some kind.... xetex  
>reports "Output written to ...." in faith, trusting that the driver  
>will do as it's told, but if the driver crashes then you won't  
>actually get a file.
>
>Could you copy & paste the actual console output of the run? I  
>suspect there may be some clues there.
>
>What happens if you try running it from the command line in a  
>Terminal window, rather than through TeXShop?
>
>JK
>
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