http://www.edna.narrabilis.com Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:07:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.edna.narrabilis.com/2006/04/21/the-pesky-texinputs/ http://www.edna.narrabilis.com/2006/04/21/the-pesky-texinputs/#comments Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:04:35 +0000 ednawig http://www.edna.narrabilis.com/2006/04/21/the-pesky-texinputs/ pdflatex was giving this error:

   Error: pdflatex (file pdftex.cfg): cannot open config file
  ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished!

This was on a linux system, with tetex installed from rpms, so was puzzling.
Turns out some users had TEXINPUTS set. As it was set /usr/share/texmf/tex, latex worked ok, but pdflatex bombed. At least was easy to fix!

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Click here to see a (very simplified) example. Note that the directory where the files are created has to be writable by apache (assuming that is the owner of the web server processes). And it really should be outside of the DocumentRoot.

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