Bug 957876

Did you install the pandoc-pdf package?

Perhaps it needs to be more discoverable...

Yes sir, I do:

[thoraxe@t510dora ~]$ yum list installed '*pandoc*' '*pdf*'
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
ghc-pandoc-types.x86_64                                                         1.9.1-5.fc18                                                                            @fedora 
libreoffice-pdfimport.x86_64                                                    1:3.6.6.2-3.fc18                                                                        @updates
pandoc.x86_64                                                                   1.9.4.5-2.fc18                                                                          @fedora 
pandoc-pdf.x86_64                                                               1.9.4.5-2.fc18                                                                          @fedora 
texlive-pdftex.noarch                                                           2:svn29349.1.40.11-20.fc18                                                              @updates
texlive-pdftex-bin.x86_64                                                       2:svn27321.0-20.20130321_r29448.fc18                                                    @updates
texlive-thumbpdf.noarch                                                         2:svn26689.3.15-20.fc18                                                                 @updates
texlive-thumbpdf-bin.noarch                                                     2:svn6898.0-20.20130321_r29448.fc18                                                     @updates
[thoraxe@t510dora ~]$ rpm -ql pandoc-pdf | grep ifluatex
[thoraxe@t510dora ~]$

Looks like it comes from this:
1:texlive-ifluatex-1.3.svn26725-8.fc18.noarch

Perhaps that needs to be required by pandoc-pdf?

After installing ifluatex, you then get this error:
[thoraxe@t510dora sme]$ pandoc -o sme-meeting-130429.pdf sme-meeting-130429.md 
pandoc: Error producing PDF from TeX source.
! LaTeX Error: File `pdftex.def' not found.

Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: def)

Enter file name: 
! Emergency stop.
<read *> 
         
l.131 ...d{ver@\Gin@driver}{\input{\Gin@driver}}{}

Which is provided by:
texlive-pdftex-def

And after installing that, it finally works.

Looks like there are some dependency chains here not met well.

Thanks for reporting this.

I guess the recent texlive updates changed/broke it.

I did some testing with:

$ echo hello | pandoc -o test.pdf

and found that the simplest though not smallest solution
seems to be to install texlive-collection-latexrecommended:
but texlive-collection-latex + texlive-ec seems
to be sufficient for basic pdflatex use with T1 font encoding.

So for now I will just make pandoc-pdf depend on
texlive-collection-latex and  texlive-ec I think.

For --latex-engine=xelatex, texlive-collection-xetex is needed,
and for lualatex, texlive-collection-luatex.

This is should be fixed in pandoc-1.11.1-2.fc19.
F18 backport is still pending.

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