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.&&

• Missing Begin Document
• Option Clash for Geometry
• Cannot Extract Embedded Font AND/OR Hieroglyphs

! LaTex Error: Missing \begin{document}.

Solution:

…or you can just push ``return`` and continue, hoping it turns out okay anyway (it just might!).

! LaTex Error: Option clash for package geometry.

Solution:

…or you can just push ``return`` and continue, hoping it turns out okay anyway (it just might!).

When you open the pdf in Adobe Acrobat, you get a warning:

Cannot extract the embedded font 'ZMIZFF+greciliae'. Some characters may not display or print correctly.

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.

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! XnView is free and does a good job of converting pdfs to jpegs.

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