General ⇒ TexStudio Cant create valid pdfs.

[pufik]

Hi, I have recently started using latex to write my math documents. When I try to save the document, it saves it as a pdf, but when I try to open it I get this message. "does not look like a valid pdf document.. " although texstudio created it, when I try to compile latex i get this weird popup "Could not start Recompile Bibliography:PdfLaTeX:
pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode "nierówności".tex." three times. I am on mac, any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the forum!

Can you post the .log file here, as attachment to a post? The "Attachments" link is below the text edit field, when you write a post.

Thanks!

Stefan

[pufik]

Hi, thank you for the reply. I have attached the file to the post:)

[Stefan Kottwitz]

That's a pretty short log, there's an error (that I don't see) and no PDF is produced, so you cannot open it (or it's an older damaged PDF).

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! Emergency stop.
<*> nierówności.tex
                       
*** (job aborted, file error in nonstop mode)
...
!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

Can you post a reduced copy of your document here? Without your text content, small enough but producing that error. If it's complete enough, we should be able to see the cause.

Stefan

[pufik]

Um the thing is this happens for all documents, new and old. For example even this.

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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Hi!
\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

There are special characters in the file name, can you test with simple ASCII characters in a file name?

Stefan

[pufik]

I tried that, making the name "test" still creates a corrupted pdf.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

What happens if you run it at the command prompt (terminal, cmd)? What is displayed when you run the command "pdflatex test"? Because, from the TeXbook:

TeX makes an "emergency stop" if it needs input from the terminal; this happens when a necessary file cannot be opened, or when no \end command was found in the input document.

Stefan

[pufik]

Could you please specify what I should run? In my tryings to make latex run, I decided to install vs code, and run it there. I get, I think the same weird error.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Do you have an idea why a file called "com" is requested, from your own documents? That's not a part of LaTeX. Something in your installation is an issue. As it can be caused by packages (modified or old) in the project folder, can you try compiling a document in an otherwise empty, other folder?

Stefan