Installing Latex/PdfLatex on Ubuntu. PdfLatex is a tool that converts Latex sources into PDF. This is specifically very important for researchers, as they use it to publish their findings. latextopdf.com offers the capability to convert your tex file to PDF online for free. No registration, installation and email address required. It is free and safe to perform latex to pdf conversion process. Using Cygwin has the major advantage that it provides a Unix like environment which the Rockbox build environment assumes to be present. Building the manual on Windows natively should be All current free TeX distributions including TeX Live, MacTeX and MiKTeX include pdfTeX (Plain TeX) and pdfLaTeX (LaTeX). ConTeXt was originally designed around use of pdfTeX pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode -synctex=1 $$i. Click Modify (otherwise the change will be discarded). This change is needed to make MikTeX produce a FILE.synctex.gz synchronisation file. The pdflatex utility. PDFLATEXCOM. The string displayed when calling the pdflatex utility. If this is not set, then $PDFLATEXCOM (the command line) is displayed. Hi, Pdflatex prompts me that sidecap.sty, wrapfig.sty, are missing. Where should be installed these sty files? I mean into the $HOME or ~/ directory. $pdf_previewer = 'open -a Skim'; $pdflatex = 'pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode'; @generated_exts = (@generated_exts, 'synctex.gz'); This uses Skim as preview application, which Do you have experiences with pdflatex in Cygwin ? Something like setup_current.exe ? Or would you recommend to change to Cygwin since the cygwin setup.exe has an URL that does not change? So whenever pdflatex is mentioned without mention of the other programs (4) Under cygwin, some com-plications happen, since cygwin amounts to a complicated merging of UNIX and MS-Windows. And when I ignore that, open the file and use the pdflatex tool I get a messsage that says: 'No information for exporting the format PDF (pdflatex).'