Nbconvert: DataFrames output in Jupyter notebook - nbconvert to pdf error

[clayms]

migrated from DataFrames and jupyter-js-notebook as this is likely the more appropriate place to post this issue.

Converting output of Jupyter notebook with DataFrames output to a pdf with nbconvert causes the a 500 error. reporting Unknown Unicode character 9474 = U+2502,.

When I clear the DataFrame output that generates these characters, nbconvert works just fine. However, nbconvert should be able to deal with this unicode character.

[minrk]

The switch from pdflatex to xelatex in master may fix this.

[Shaun1818]

Thanks @minrk . I am having the same issue. Could you explain what you mean by ' master may fix this'

[clayms]

@Shaun1818 look at use xelatex by default

I updated nbconvert but still get this

[NbConvertApp] Running pdflatex 3 times: ['pdflatex', 'notebook.tex']
[NbConvertApp] CRITICAL | p failed: pdflatex notebook.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (MiKTeX 2.9 64-bit)

from jupyter nbconvert --help-all, one of the options under PDFExporter options is

--PDFExporter.latex_command=<List>
    Default: ['pdflatex', '{filename}']
    Shell command used to compile latex.

So from the console

jupyter nbconvert --to pdf --PDFExporter.latex_command=(xelatex Example.ipynb)

where Example.ipynb is the name of your notebook.

However, this just opens up the notebook in TeXworks.

[takluyver]

To set that config option, one of the arguments actually needs to be {filename}. Nbconvert will generate a .tex file from the notebook file and then pass that filename to latex in place of {filename}. It's probably easier to set it in a config file than to work out what combination of quoting and escapes you need to pass it at the command line.

[clayms]

Thanks @takluyver

Setting up a config file nbConvertConfig.py in the same directory as the notebook that contains the following:

c = get_config()
c.PDFExporter.latex_command = ['xelatex', '{filename}']

then running jupyter nbconvert --to pdf --config nbConvertConfig.py Example.ipynb from the console worked.

[takluyver]

Great, I'm glad you got it working. In that case, I think this should be fixed by changing the default to xelatex, so I'll close this issue.