I encountered the same issue. As people previously stated, the problem lies in that xlatex isn't found in your PATH environment variable.
A solution that worked for me was to run the following from the notebook:
!export PATH=/Library/TeX/texbin:$PATH
Or in a command line simply:
export PATH=/Library/TeX/texbin:$PATH
And then run the export to pdf from a command line (within your virtual environment if there is one in place) as follows:
jupyter nbconvert your_notebook.ipynb --to pdf
This should create a pdf of your notebook on the same directory it is running.
Answer from Nico on Stack OverflowI encountered the same issue. As people previously stated, the problem lies in that xlatex isn't found in your PATH environment variable.
A solution that worked for me was to run the following from the notebook:
!export PATH=/Library/TeX/texbin:$PATH
Or in a command line simply:
export PATH=/Library/TeX/texbin:$PATH
And then run the export to pdf from a command line (within your virtual environment if there is one in place) as follows:
jupyter nbconvert your_notebook.ipynb --to pdf
This should create a pdf of your notebook on the same directory it is running.
In terminal type
$ sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-plain-generic
just as Nico mentioned. run the following commands
$ export PATH=/Library/TeX/texbin:$PATH
to convert notebook to pdf run
$ jupyter nbconvert your_notebook.ipynb --to pdf
Converting from Jupyter Notebook to PDF
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Hey guys,
I'm trying to switch from MATLAB to Python. I heard that Jupyter had a great markdown function and could publish to PDF to LaTeX like MATLAB. Anyway, when I go to the dropdown menu and click File > Export Notebook to LaTeX I get the following error:
nbconvert failed: xelatex not found on PATH, if you have not installed xelatex you may need to do so. Find further instructions at https://nbconvert.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html#installing-tex
I am operating on a Mac on 10.15 Catalina and as far as I can tell, I have installed MacTex. I have looked at Stack Exchange but either don't understand the solutions or they don't work for me. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Hey everyone,
Getting this error when trying to export a Jupyter notebook to PDF from VS Code:
'xelatex' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
It's the nbconvert step that fails.
Here's what's confusing:
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I have MiKTeX installed (Win11).
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xelatex --versionworks fine in a regular Windows command prompt. -
I checked and fixed my system PATH, it includes the MiKTeX bin folder.
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After restarting VS Code,
xelatex --versionalso works fine in the VS Code integrated terminal. -
I updated MiKTeX databases (
Update FNDB, etc.) yesterday, and it seemed to work for a little while, but now the error is back. -
Looked through my
settings.json, didn't find anything that looks like it would mess with command paths.
The error only shows up specifically when doing the "Export to PDF" from the notebook itself. It's like that specific export process isn't seeing xelatex even though everything else is.
Anyone know what might be going on or have ideas on how to fix this? It's pretty frustrating.
Thanks!