From: Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>
Date: 2006-05-01T19:45:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Latex and Ruby

Jean-Etienne wrote:
> 
> I am looking for a library to convert Latex content to png and PDF. Does 
> anyone know a stable one?

Seems like most folks rely on having the pdflatex executable
laying around.

For example, see the generate_pdf method of lib/rtex/view.rb
in Bruce William's RTex Rails plugin,

  svn co http://codefluency.com/svn/codefluency/rails/plugins/rtex

and the convert_tex_to_pdf method in Instiki's app/controllers/
wiki_controller.rb, which you can see via,

  http://rubyforge.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/instiki/?root=instiki

Regards,
-- 
Bil
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