Org-mode, love it.
I’ve been trying to set up the mac to export anything to pdf. No easy way yet.
First there’s org-export-as-pdf which first exports to pdf then generates a pdf.
I get “pdflatex: command not found”, fair enough… stumped.
Other option is org-export-as-docbook-pdf which exports as DocBook XML then pdf.
In this case I get “XSLT processor command is not set correctly”.
In both cases the .tex and .xml files are generated.
In both cases I get through enough reading to think: “there must be an easier way”, and here I am.
Thanks.
Mac OS X 10.6.7
Emacs.app 23.2.1
Org-mode 7.4
I think the short answer is that you’ll need to install either of the missing tools. In my case, I use LaTeX extensively, so I have TeX Live installed. That will give you pdflatex which will let org-export-as-pdf work properly. However, TeX is a huge system (several hundred megabytes to download), so if your only need for it is org-mode, you might rather install a docbook processor.
I’m not an expert on org-mode, so maybe there’s a way around it. You could generate HTML and convert that to PDF using the method of your choice, but I’m guessing the optimum path is to install one of the processors needed.