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authorJohn MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>2021-08-01 10:29:47 -0600
committerJohn MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>2021-08-01 10:29:47 -0600
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Add a faq about the "Cannot allocate memory" error on M1 macs.
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may be fine for many purposes.)
+## Converting to PDF on an M1 Mac, I get a "Cannot allocate memory" error.
+
+We are not sure why this happens, but we have found that
+fully specifying the `pdflatex` path avoids the error. For
+example,
+
+ pandoc -o my.pdf --pdf-engine=/Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex
+
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