Migrated from https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/issues/2657.

@Alcampopiano reports:

Hello,

When converting notebook to pdf via command line with: jupyter nbconvert --to pdf mynotebook.ipynb

or when using the notebook GUI,

I get lots of output with an error: xetex-def could not be found

I have these dependencies installed with conda (4.3.22): miktex version is 2.9.5987 pandoc version is 1.19.2 jupyterlab version is 0.24.1

In my miktex package manager, I can see that xetex.def is there but perhaps conda doesn’t see it.

However, I do have xetex according to the output: xetex --version is 3.14159265-2.6-0.99996

Any ideas how to fix this so I can use nbconvert to make pdfs?

Allan

Full Output: nbconvert failed: PDF creating failed, captured latex output: This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99996 (MiKTeX 2.9.6100) entering extended mode (notebook.tex LaTeX2e <2016/03/31> Babel ❤️.9r> and hyphenation patterns for 75 language(s) loaded.

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Unfortunately, the package xetex-def could not be installed.Please check the log file: C:/Users/campopianoal/AppData/Local/MiKTeX/2.9/miktex/log/xelatex.log

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