Wiki source code of Convert a LaTeX Package to PDF
Last modified by Vincent Massol on 2026/08/30 19:36
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| 1 | The **LaTeX** format of the [[export menu>>doc:documentation.extensions.user.latex.export-page.WebHome]] gives you a ZIP of LaTeX sources, not a finished document. Compile it into a PDF yourself when your wiki offers no **PDF (LaTeX)** entry because it has no [[PDF conversion>>doc:documentation.extensions.admin.latex.pdf-conversion.WebHome]] set up, or when you want to edit the sources before compiling them. | ||
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| 3 | The commands below run ##pdflatex## inside a Docker container, so the only thing you have to install is Docker itself. | ||
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| 5 | 1. Unzip the package and put yourself at its root. Download the helper script of the [[blang/latex~-docker project>>https://github.com/blang/latex-docker]] next to ##index.tex##, and make it executable.((( | ||
| 6 | {{code language="bash"}} | ||
| 7 | wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blang/latex-docker/master/latexdockercmd.sh | ||
| 8 | chmod +x latexdockercmd.sh | ||
| 9 | {{/code}} | ||
| 10 | ))) | ||
| 11 | 1. Compile ##index.tex## by running the helper **twice**. A single run leaves the table of contents empty, [[for the reason the wiki's own PDF conversion also compiles twice>>doc:documentation.extensions.admin.latex.pdf-conversion.WebHome]].((( | ||
| 12 | {{code language="bash"}} | ||
| 13 | ./latexdockercmd.sh pdflatex -shell-escape index.tex | ||
| 14 | ./latexdockercmd.sh pdflatex -shell-escape index.tex | ||
| 15 | {{/code}} | ||
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| 17 | {{image reference="generated-pdf-contents.png" size="large" alt="The table of contents of the generated PDF, filled in by the second pdflatex run"/}} | ||
| 18 | ))) | ||
| 19 | 1. Open ##index.pdf##, next to ##index.tex## at the root of the package. It holds the exported pages typeset, with their images and the table of contents in front of them.((( | ||
| 20 | {{image reference="generated-pdf-page.png" size="large" alt="A page of the generated index.pdf, showing an exported wiki page typeset by pdflatex"/}} | ||
| 21 | ))) |
