Hi all, Using Org-mode version 8.2.5h (release_8.2.5h-829-g9665f8) from git, and GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2) of 2014-02-22 on king, modified by Debian
I think there is a bug in org-beamer-publish-to-pdf. The code of the function is: #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (defun org-beamer-publish-to-pdf (plist filename pub-dir) (org-publish-attachment plist (org-latex-compile (org-publish-org-to 'beamer filename ".tex" plist)) pub-dir)) #+END_SRC It seems to me that (org-publish-org-to 'beamer filename ".tex" plist) only returns filename.tex without the directory. Hence org-latex-compile wants to compile a .tex file in my home directory, (rather than at the base directory of the publishing) and fails at not finding it there. Certainly not the most elegant solution, but the following works for me. Although only with (setq org-latex-pdf-process '("texi2dvi -p -b -V %f")), since with the default setting for org-latex-pdf-process, still pdflatex complains about not being able to write to the log file. #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (defun org-beamer-publish-to-pdf (plist filename pub-dir) (org-publish-attachment plist (org-latex-compile (concat (plist-get plist :base-directory) (substring (org-publish-org-to 'beamer filename ".tex" plist) 1 nil) )) pub-dir)) #+END_SRC