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+====== Troubleshooting ======
+It is inevitable.  Tex is such a monster that you are going to have troubles of one sort or another.  Here we can collectively have an archive of the most common solutions!
+&&Note that with the console open, most of the time you can either push ``enter`` when the console printout pauses with a message to skip over the error or warning and just continue, OR you can push ``Q`` to just finish the script in silence.  Either way you will see the resulting PDF.&&
+=====Topics=====
+  *[[#Missing Begin Document]]
+  *[[#Option Clash for Geometry]]
+  *[[#Cannot Extract Embedded Font AND/OR Hieroglyphs]]
+====Missing Begin Document====
+<code>! LaTex Error: Missing \begin{document}.</code>
+**Solution:**
+...or you can just push ``return`` and continue, hoping it turns out okay anyway (it just might!).
+====Option Clash for Geometry====
+<code>! LaTex Error: Option clash for package geometry.</code>
+**Solution:**
+...or you can just push ``return`` and continue, hoping it turns out okay anyway (it just might!).
+====Cannot Extract Embedded Font AND/OR Hieroglyphs====
+When you open the pdf in Adobe Acrobat, you get a warning:
+<code>Cannot extract the embedded font 'ZMIZFF+greciliae'. Some characters may not display or print correctly.</code>
+{{:gregowiki:hieroglyphs.png?nolink&400|}}
+When you open the pdf file in Adobe Acrobat you may see hieroglyphs - Characters that look like they are pulled and smeared along the page or long parenthesis-looking characters that are not supposed to be there.
+[[http://choorucode.com/2010/02/02/adobe-acrobat-embedded-font-error/|This is a popular error]].
+These errors have to do both with the fonts themselves and with the way TexLive embeds the fonts.  I've noticed that these funny marks print if I embed the pdf inside another pdf using InDesign.  If I open it directly there is no problem.
+**Workarounds**
+ - Open the pdf file in Adobe Acrobat and save it as a .ps (postscript) file.  Then open the .ps file in Adobe Distiller to reconvert it to pdf.  This should solve the error message.
+ - In Adobe Reader, when you enter the print dialogue, click on //Advanced// and then check the box for //Print as Image//.
+ - Open the pdf that TexLive created and save it as a jpeg and include that in your InDesign document!  [[http://www.xnview.com/en|XnView]] is free and does a good job of converting pdfs to jpegs.
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