Download of notebooks as PDF is running into 500-Internal Server Error
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Description
Hello, the following issue describes the PDF via LaTeX Export of a notebook from jupyter which is running into an error.
**Describe the bug**
PDF via LaTeX Export of a notebook is running into 500-Internal Server Error.
**To Reproduce**
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
1. Create a simple Notebook
2. Fill a row with "print('hello')" out
3. Click on File -> Download as... -> PDF via LaTeX
4. See error (attaached to this issue)
**Expected behavior**
- Working PDF Export
**Screenshots**
see attached error message
[PDF-Export-Error.txt](https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/files/8177104/PDF-Export-Error.txt)

**Desktop**
- OS: any OS and any OS version
- Any browser and any browser versions
**Server Side**
- OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
- OS Version: 7.9 (Maipo)
- Patchlevel: latets
- Notebook server version: 6.0.3
- Python version: 3.7.6
Deeper investigation unfortunatly not possible. Thank you in advance for any advice and hint in resolution of that issue
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the File → Download as... → PDF via LaTeX workflow described in the issue, using the attached PDF-Export-Error.txt as the initial error evidence. Trace the server-side export failure and verify that the simple notebook produces a working PDF instead of a 500 error.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- jupyter-notebook, latex, python
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100