TeXstudio generates “plain text” when using Build&View (Debian+XFCE)

I saw this closed question and I'm experienceing something similar: for .tex documents, when I press the f5 key, which triggers the macro "Build and view", I get an output .pdf file that is treated by Thunar as a "plain text" file; I doulbe-click on it and the text editor is executed. I use the embedded pdf viewer in TeXstudio.

Running pdflatex on a terminal or using another editor, the problem doesn't occur; even on TeXstudio, if I only use the Build macro and then the view command, I get a proper .pdf file.

I even ran the Build > View on the following file:

    documentclass{article}



    usepackage{lipsum}



begin{document}

    lipsum

end{document}

The Build > View command produced a proper PDF from the above.

Any ideas on how to know what is going on? Thank you!

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asked Feb 4 at 19:13

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Running pdflatex on a terminal or using another editor, the problem doesn't occur; even on TeXstudio, if I only use the Build macro and then the view command, I get a proper .pdf file.

I even ran the Build > View on the following file:

    documentclass{article}



    usepackage{lipsum}



begin{document}

    lipsum

end{document}

The Build > View command produced a proper PDF from the above.

Any ideas on how to know what is going on? Thank you!

edited 24 mins ago

asked Feb 4 at 19:13

Óscar Guajardo

199110

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Running pdflatex on a terminal or using another editor, the problem doesn't occur; even on TeXstudio, if I only use the Build macro and then the view command, I get a proper .pdf file.

I even ran the Build > View on the following file:

    documentclass{article}



    usepackage{lipsum}



begin{document}

    lipsum

end{document}

The Build > View command produced a proper PDF from the above.

Any ideas on how to know what is going on? Thank you!

edited 24 mins ago

asked Feb 4 at 19:13

Óscar Guajardo

199110

Running pdflatex on a terminal or using another editor, the problem doesn't occur; even on TeXstudio, if I only use the Build macro and then the view command, I get a proper .pdf file.

I even ran the Build > View on the following file:

    documentclass{article}



    usepackage{lipsum}



begin{document}

    lipsum

end{document}

The Build > View command produced a proper PDF from the above.

Any ideas on how to know what is going on? Thank you!

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edited 24 mins ago

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F5 is the default shortcut for Build & View, check if this is your current shortcut in Options/Configure TeXstudio.../Shortcuts/Menus/Tools.

Build & View is defined in Options/Configure TeXstudio.../Build/Build & View. Please check the value of this. The default value is txs:///compile | txs:///view. If this is different, please set it back to that.

txs:///compile is defined just below Build & View, please check that the value is txs:///pdflatex

txs:///pdflatex is defined in Options/Configure TeXstudio.../Commands/PdfLaTeX and the default value is pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex. If this is different, please set it back to that.

If this does not solve, could you describe some more the "plain-text .pdf file" contents?

answered Feb 5 at 16:10

Ilario Gelmetti

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The configuration is as you describe it. I cannot tell you about the contents of the file because when trying to open it (on Mousepad, in my case) I get a window with the error "The document was not UTF-8 valid"; changing the encoding doesn't allow me to open it either. However, in trying to get into the contents, I typed on terminal cat output.pdf > output2.pdf (just as an example) and this produced a proper PDF file. Again, the faulted PDF is produced only when I run Build & View.

– Óscar Guajardo
Feb 6 at 2:10

I can't understand how this could happen, there seems to be a problem with TeXstudio as one button works and the other doesn't and there seems to be a problem with your Debian deciding that two seemingly identical (cat just identically copies the content from one file to the other, no modification of the content, just the creation date, the permissions and other non-important things will be different) files should be opened in two different ways. Can you share the faulty pdf?

– Ilario Gelmetti
Feb 6 at 10:21

I was about to share the file but I started experimenting; I had defined a 'theorem' for Remarks, and I named it rem; it was this that was causing trouble; I just renamed it and everything works fine! Apparently rem is some sort of internal command for TeXstudio: sourceforge.net/p/texstudio/discussion/907839/thread/09d48286 Thanks for the interest! :)

– Óscar Guajardo
Feb 6 at 17:48

This is weird... Maybe it's a TeXstudio bug or something like that. If you can provide a MWE with this behaviour it would be interesting. Just adding that newtheorem in a document of mine is not enough for reproducing the weird behaviour.

– Ilario Gelmetti
Feb 7 at 15:40

What version of TeXstudio do you use? Mine is 2.12.14 from the Debian testing repos.

– Óscar Guajardo
Feb 7 at 18:17

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Apparently the problem was an environment whose call word was rem (I used it to define a Remark 'theorem': newtheorem{rem}{Remark}). I just renamed it and now running Build&View produces a true PDF file.

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F5 is the default shortcut for Build & View, check if this is your current shortcut in Options/Configure TeXstudio.../Shortcuts/Menus/Tools.

txs:///compile is defined just below Build & View, please check that the value is txs:///pdflatex

If this does not solve, could you describe some more the "plain-text .pdf file" contents?

answered Feb 5 at 16:10

Ilario Gelmetti

New contributor

The configuration is as you describe it. I cannot tell you about the contents of the file because when trying to open it (on Mousepad, in my case) I get a window with the error "The document was not UTF-8 valid"; changing the encoding doesn't allow me to open it either. However, in trying to get into the contents, I typed on terminal cat output.pdf > output2.pdf (just as an example) and this produced a proper PDF file. Again, the faulted PDF is produced only when I run Build & View.

– Óscar Guajardo
Feb 6 at 2:10

I can't understand how this could happen, there seems to be a problem with TeXstudio as one button works and the other doesn't and there seems to be a problem with your Debian deciding that two seemingly identical (cat just identically copies the content from one file to the other, no modification of the content, just the creation date, the permissions and other non-important things will be different) files should be opened in two different ways. Can you share the faulty pdf?

– Ilario Gelmetti
Feb 6 at 10:21

I was about to share the file but I started experimenting; I had defined a 'theorem' for Remarks, and I named it rem; it was this that was causing trouble; I just renamed it and everything works fine! Apparently rem is some sort of internal command for TeXstudio: sourceforge.net/p/texstudio/discussion/907839/thread/09d48286 Thanks for the interest! :)

– Óscar Guajardo
Feb 6 at 17:48

This is weird... Maybe it's a TeXstudio bug or something like that. If you can provide a MWE with this behaviour it would be interesting. Just adding that newtheorem in a document of mine is not enough for reproducing the weird behaviour.

– Ilario Gelmetti
Feb 7 at 15:40

What version of TeXstudio do you use? Mine is 2.12.14 from the Debian testing repos.

– Óscar Guajardo
Feb 7 at 18:17

|
show 2 more comments

F5 is the default shortcut for Build & View, check if this is your current shortcut in Options/Configure TeXstudio.../Shortcuts/Menus/Tools.

txs:///compile is defined just below Build & View, please check that the value is txs:///pdflatex

If this does not solve, could you describe some more the "plain-text .pdf file" contents?

answered Feb 5 at 16:10

Ilario Gelmetti

New contributor

The configuration is as you describe it. I cannot tell you about the contents of the file because when trying to open it (on Mousepad, in my case) I get a window with the error "The document was not UTF-8 valid"; changing the encoding doesn't allow me to open it either. However, in trying to get into the contents, I typed on terminal cat output.pdf > output2.pdf (just as an example) and this produced a proper PDF file. Again, the faulted PDF is produced only when I run Build & View.

– Óscar Guajardo
Feb 6 at 2:10

I can't understand how this could happen, there seems to be a problem with TeXstudio as one button works and the other doesn't and there seems to be a problem with your Debian deciding that two seemingly identical (cat just identically copies the content from one file to the other, no modification of the content, just the creation date, the permissions and other non-important things will be different) files should be opened in two different ways. Can you share the faulty pdf?

– Ilario Gelmetti
Feb 6 at 10:21

I was about to share the file but I started experimenting; I had defined a 'theorem' for Remarks, and I named it rem; it was this that was causing trouble; I just renamed it and everything works fine! Apparently rem is some sort of internal command for TeXstudio: sourceforge.net/p/texstudio/discussion/907839/thread/09d48286 Thanks for the interest! :)

– Óscar Guajardo
Feb 6 at 17:48

This is weird... Maybe it's a TeXstudio bug or something like that. If you can provide a MWE with this behaviour it would be interesting. Just adding that newtheorem in a document of mine is not enough for reproducing the weird behaviour.

– Ilario Gelmetti
Feb 7 at 15:40

What version of TeXstudio do you use? Mine is 2.12.14 from the Debian testing repos.

– Óscar Guajardo
Feb 7 at 18:17

|
show 2 more comments

F5 is the default shortcut for Build & View, check if this is your current shortcut in Options/Configure TeXstudio.../Shortcuts/Menus/Tools.

txs:///compile is defined just below Build & View, please check that the value is txs:///pdflatex

If this does not solve, could you describe some more the "plain-text .pdf file" contents?

answered Feb 5 at 16:10

Ilario Gelmetti

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F5 is the default shortcut for Build & View, check if this is your current shortcut in Options/Configure TeXstudio.../Shortcuts/Menus/Tools.

txs:///compile is defined just below Build & View, please check that the value is txs:///pdflatex

If this does not solve, could you describe some more the "plain-text .pdf file" contents?

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The configuration is as you describe it. I cannot tell you about the contents of the file because when trying to open it (on Mousepad, in my case) I get a window with the error "The document was not UTF-8 valid"; changing the encoding doesn't allow me to open it either. However, in trying to get into the contents, I typed on terminal cat output.pdf > output2.pdf (just as an example) and this produced a proper PDF file. Again, the faulted PDF is produced only when I run Build & View.

– Óscar Guajardo
Feb 6 at 2:10

I can't understand how this could happen, there seems to be a problem with TeXstudio as one button works and the other doesn't and there seems to be a problem with your Debian deciding that two seemingly identical (cat just identically copies the content from one file to the other, no modification of the content, just the creation date, the permissions and other non-important things will be different) files should be opened in two different ways. Can you share the faulty pdf?

– Ilario Gelmetti
Feb 6 at 10:21

I was about to share the file but I started experimenting; I had defined a 'theorem' for Remarks, and I named it rem; it was this that was causing trouble; I just renamed it and everything works fine! Apparently rem is some sort of internal command for TeXstudio: sourceforge.net/p/texstudio/discussion/907839/thread/09d48286 Thanks for the interest! :)

– Óscar Guajardo
Feb 6 at 17:48

This is weird... Maybe it's a TeXstudio bug or something like that. If you can provide a MWE with this behaviour it would be interesting. Just adding that newtheorem in a document of mine is not enough for reproducing the weird behaviour.

– Ilario Gelmetti
Feb 7 at 15:40

What version of TeXstudio do you use? Mine is 2.12.14 from the Debian testing repos.

– Óscar Guajardo
Feb 7 at 18:17

|
show 2 more comments

The configuration is as you describe it. I cannot tell you about the contents of the file because when trying to open it (on Mousepad, in my case) I get a window with the error "The document was not UTF-8 valid"; changing the encoding doesn't allow me to open it either. However, in trying to get into the contents, I typed on terminal cat output.pdf > output2.pdf (just as an example) and this produced a proper PDF file. Again, the faulted PDF is produced only when I run Build & View.

– Óscar Guajardo
Feb 6 at 2:10

I can't understand how this could happen, there seems to be a problem with TeXstudio as one button works and the other doesn't and there seems to be a problem with your Debian deciding that two seemingly identical (cat just identically copies the content from one file to the other, no modification of the content, just the creation date, the permissions and other non-important things will be different) files should be opened in two different ways. Can you share the faulty pdf?

– Ilario Gelmetti
Feb 6 at 10:21

I was about to share the file but I started experimenting; I had defined a 'theorem' for Remarks, and I named it rem; it was this that was causing trouble; I just renamed it and everything works fine! Apparently rem is some sort of internal command for TeXstudio: sourceforge.net/p/texstudio/discussion/907839/thread/09d48286 Thanks for the interest! :)

– Óscar Guajardo
Feb 6 at 17:48

This is weird... Maybe it's a TeXstudio bug or something like that. If you can provide a MWE with this behaviour it would be interesting. Just adding that newtheorem in a document of mine is not enough for reproducing the weird behaviour.

– Ilario Gelmetti
Feb 7 at 15:40

What version of TeXstudio do you use? Mine is 2.12.14 from the Debian testing repos.

– Óscar Guajardo
Feb 7 at 18:17

The configuration is as you describe it. I cannot tell you about the contents of the file because when trying to open it (on Mousepad, in my case) I get a window with the error "The document was not UTF-8 valid"; changing the encoding doesn't allow me to open it either. However, in trying to get into the contents, I typed on terminal cat output.pdf > output2.pdf (just as an example) and this produced a proper PDF file. Again, the faulted PDF is produced only when I run Build & View.

– Óscar Guajardo
Feb 6 at 2:10

I can't understand how this could happen, there seems to be a problem with TeXstudio as one button works and the other doesn't and there seems to be a problem with your Debian deciding that two seemingly identical (cat just identically copies the content from one file to the other, no modification of the content, just the creation date, the permissions and other non-important things will be different) files should be opened in two different ways. Can you share the faulty pdf?

– Ilario Gelmetti
Feb 6 at 10:21

I was about to share the file but I started experimenting; I had defined a 'theorem' for Remarks, and I named it rem; it was this that was causing trouble; I just renamed it and everything works fine! Apparently rem is some sort of internal command for TeXstudio: sourceforge.net/p/texstudio/discussion/907839/thread/09d48286 Thanks for the interest! :)

– Óscar Guajardo
Feb 6 at 17:48

This is weird... Maybe it's a TeXstudio bug or something like that. If you can provide a MWE with this behaviour it would be interesting. Just adding that newtheorem in a document of mine is not enough for reproducing the weird behaviour.

– Ilario Gelmetti
Feb 7 at 15:40

What version of TeXstudio do you use? Mine is 2.12.14 from the Debian testing repos.

– Óscar Guajardo
Feb 7 at 18:17

|
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answered Feb 6 at 17:50

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199110

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answered Feb 6 at 17:50

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answered Feb 6 at 17:50

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199110

answered Feb 6 at 17:50

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answered Feb 6 at 17:50

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answered Feb 6 at 17:50

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