[Tex/LaTex] pdflatex-fmt-doesnt-match-pdftex-pool

fmtutilkilepdftextexlive

Using Kile 2.1 beta 4, TeXlive2010 on Ubuntu 10.04 the call of pdflatex from kile fails with the error "pdflatex-fmt-doesnt-match-pdftex-pool" as it has been reported here.

However, I can compile from the command line without any problems.

Looking at the log-file I found this odd entry

***** This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) restricted \write18
enabled.

kpathsea: Running mktexfmt
pdflatex.fmt fmtutil: running `pdftex
-ini -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdflatex.ini' … This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (TeX Live
2010) (INITEX) restricted \write18
enabled.
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/web2c/cp227.tcx)

It seems that Kile calls the old texlive 2009 (was never installed on the system). I installed Kile without recommended dependencies to overcome the texlive 2009/2010 problem and just after installation everything worked fine from the command line and using Kile. Deleting texmf-var folder and running fmtutil --all did not solve my problem.

Did something change the configuration after system restart, if yes what and why?

Is there a way to re-configure Kile or do I have to uninstall it, build the dummy package and reinstall Kile in oder to use it with TeXLive2010?

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A solution is to build Kile from source. After doing so it works perfectly with TeXLive2010

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You can try creating your graphics using the tikzDevivce which lets TeX handle all of the typesetting. This will hopefully sidestep any font issues you are having as the text in your graphics will use the same font as the body text of your paper, which is displaying fine.

To install the package in R:

install.packages('tikzDevice')

Then make your graph as usual, except use tikz() instead of pdf() to start the plot output:

require(tikzDevice)
tikz('myAwesomeRPlot.tex')

# Your plotting code here

dev.off()

The output of the tikzDevice is a .tex file containing commands required to construct your plot using TikZ---an excellent graphics package for TeX, LaTeX and ConTeXt (however, our output is currently only compatible with LaTeX). To include your plot in a paper, use \input instead of \includegraphics:

% In your preamble:
\usepackage{tikz}

% Later on in your paper...
\begin{figure}
  \input{myAwesomeRPlot}
  \caption{Check out the spread on that distribution!}
\end{figure}

You can also pass the standAlone=TRUE option to tikz() and the resulting .tex file will be self-contained and can be typeset by LaTeX without including it in another document.

For more information and examples, check out the package vignette.

Hope this helps!

Addendum

It should be noted that the tikzDevice treats all plot text as LaTeX code. This allows you do do things like:

curve({x^2 / 2},-1,1,main="Plot of $y=\\frac{x^2}{2}$",ylab="$\\frac{x^2}{2}$")

And LaTeX will typeset the equations in your plot. This behavior has some consequences:

The backslash at the beginning of each LaTeX command must be escaped by another backslash as R treats backslashes as escape characters.
Any character that is special to LaTeX, such as #, $, %, ^, _, etc, must be escaped if you don't want it treated as a LaTeX command:
```
plot(...,main="I really want the dollar sign in \\$2.99!")
```
If LaTeX code in your plot text requires special packages, you need to make the tikzDevice aware of this. See the documentation of tikzLatexPackages in section 3.1 of the vignette for details.

[Tex/LaTex] TeX Live 2010 and Thunderbird add-on LaTeXIt! don’t cooperate

The problem line appears to be in content/main.js, line 144 (line number accurate as of 2011/07/22, may be different in the future). Try the following steps:

Find the LaTeX-It xpi file. It's actually a renamed .zip file, so you'll need to uncompress it to edit its files. 7-Zip will extract the file without renaming, but worst case, you can rename the .xpi file to a .zip extension and then uncompress it into its own folder.
In the file content/main.js, replace lines 144-147 with var temp_dir="c:\\temp"; temp_file = init_file(temp_dir); where the first statement refers to any writable temporary folder with a simple path. Make sure to double any backslashes in the path, since Javascript uses the backslash character to escape things like newlines, tabs, etc.
Recompress the extracted folder into a .zip, then rename it to have a .xpi extension. Replace the old .xpi file with your updated one.
At the author's GitHub site, post a bug report asking for better support of tildes in paths, or a feature request asking for the ability to override the default temporary folder with one of your choosing.

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