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Installed Prawn

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Problem

This noon, I tried to use the kramdown command line utility to generate PDF files, but failed.

$ kramdown test.tex -o pdf > test.pdf
/home/owner/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.2/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/ke
rnel_require.rb:55:in `require': cannot load such file -- prawn (LoadError)
	from /home/owner/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.2/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.1.0/rubygem
s/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
	from /home/owner/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/kramdown-1.4.1/lib/kramdown/c
onverter/pdf.rb:10:in `<top (required)>'
	from /home/owner/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/kramdown-1.4.1/lib/kramdown/d
ocument.rb:119:in `const_defined?'
	from /home/owner/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/kramdown-1.4.1/lib/kramdown/d
ocument.rb:119:in `method_missing'
	from /home/owner/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/kramdown-1.4.1/bin/kramdown:6
1:in `block in <top (required)>'
	from /home/owner/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/kramdown-1.4.1/bin/kramdown:6
1:in `each'
	from /home/owner/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/kramdown-1.4.1/bin/kramdown:6
1:in `<top (required)>'
	from /home/owner/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/bin/kramdown:23:in `load'
	from /home/owner/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/bin/kramdown:23:in `<main>'
	from /home/owner/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:15:in `e
val'
	from /home/owner/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:15:in `<
main>'

Attempt

I searched Google for “kramdown pdf”, and find this question useful. It linked to a page introducing Prawn.

I used the testing code there to figure out that the above problem had arised because I didn’t install the Ruby gem.

$ gem install prawn
Fetching: ttfunk-1.4.0.gem (100%)
Successfully installed ttfunk-1.4.0
Fetching: pdf-core-0.4.0.gem (100%)
Successfully installed pdf-core-0.4.0
Fetching: prawn-1.3.0.gem (100%)

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  A lot has changed recently in Prawn.

  Please read the changelog for details:

  https://github.com/prawnpdf/prawn/wiki/CHANGELOG


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Successfully installed prawn-1.3.0
3 gems installed

But I still can’t run the sample code correctly. Finally, I use pandoc.

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