Re: How to generate report with Mathematica script from command line (no front end)
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- Subject: [mg121288] Re: How to generate report with Mathematica script from command line (no front end)
- From: Murta <rodrigomurtax at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 05:41:30 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi James I have the same problem. By what I know, it's not possible to generate pdf using the kernel without front end... Let me know if you get it! Tks Murta On Sep 6, 5:05 am, james rund <janju... at googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > first of all: am overwhelmed by the loads of useful tricks on this mailing list! > > Now, my current problem is the following, perhaps you can help: > I want to use Mathematica to make pretty reports of our data analysis. > I have a mathematica notebook that will load data from a specified file and generate a PDF and CDF accordingly. > Now I want to turn this into a command line script to do the same job, where the input parameter is the filename of the file that contains the data. > > However, the script does not to anything sensible. It does not write the PDF and CDF files. > I use CreateDocument and NotebookSave for that in the notebook version of the script. > > What could be going wrong? > Do I need to have an open front end all the time? > if yes -> how to I load something via a shell command to the front end? > > The only solution I came up with so far is pretty bad: > Have a loop in a front end notebook running ALL THE TIME which checks for a specific file. If the file exists it will generate a report accordingly. > > However, this is an embarrassing solution.....don't judge me on that.... ;-)) > > Please tell me a better trick if you know one. > > Many thanks, > > james