VS Code: Quarto - mermaid - docx

[younits]

Hello everybody,

This is my first issue report ever, so please be gentle if I may have done something very wrong.

I have created a Quarto document that also includes a Mermaid diagram and want to render it to a docx. It works by rendering it to an HTML document, but nothing gets it working into a docx file (-> very slow with throwing an error)

This is the error message:

ERROR: Couldn't find open server.
Chrome process error: 

Stack trace:
Chrome process error: 
    at criClient (file:///C:/Users/Y/AppData/Local/Programs/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:39317:15)
    at eventLoopTick (ext:core/01_core.js:153:7)
    at async file:///C:/Users/Y/AppData/Local/Programs/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:39279:22
    at async Semaphore.runExclusive (file:///C:/Users/Y/AppData/Local/Programs/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:38956:29)
    at async Object.createPngsFromHtml (file:///C:/Users/Y/AppData/Local/Programs/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:39544:42)
    at async makePng (file:///C:/Users/Y/AppData/Y/Programs/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:74827:70)
    at async makeDefault (file:///C:/Users/Y/AppData/Local/Programs/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:74887:24)
    at async Object.cell (file:///C:/Users/Y/AppData/Local/Programs/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:74910:20)
    at async Promise.all (index 0)
    at async Object.document (file:///C:/Users/Y/AppData/Local/Programs/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:39839:25)

I have made a dummy program, so you see my problem.

---
title: "Hello"
format: docx
---


{{< pagebreak >}}

## Title 1 {.unnumbered}



{{< pagebreak >}}

## Title 2

This is a very, very big text.

{{< pagebreak >}}

## Title 3
### Title 3.1



```{mermaid}
flowchart TD

    X[X]
    Y[Y]
    A[A]
    B[B]
    C[C]
    D[D]
    E[E]

    X--> A
    Y--> A
    A-->|BLABLA|B
    B--> C
    B-->|BLABLA WHY|D
    B-->|BLABLA WHY WHY|E

I have also really googled and could find #1822, where you should do this:

wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
apt install ./google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

However, here an error for apt is coming up:
"apt : The term 'apt' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling
of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again."
(wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb - works but did not solve the problem)

I do not know what to do anymore. Any rendering of the mermaid does not work in Quarto anymore.
(I also have a college with the same set up, same quarto version but rendering works.)

Here also Quarto check - I do not know if there is a problem in there:

Quarto 1.5.56
[>] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
      Pandoc version 3.2.0: OK
      Dart Sass version 1.70.0: OK
      Deno version 1.41.0: OK
      Typst version 0.11.0: OK
[>] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[>] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.5.56
      Path: C:\Users\Y\AppData\Local\Programs\Quarto\bin
      CodePage: 1252

[>] Checking tools....................OK
      TinyTeX: v2024.06
      Chromium: 869685

[>] Checking LaTeX....................OK
      Using: TinyTex
      Path: C:\Users\Y\AppData\Roaming\TinyTeX\bin\windows\
      Version: 2024

[>] Checking basic markdown render....OK

WARN: Specified QUARTO_PYTHON '/usr/bin/python3' does not exist
WARN: No python binary found in specified QUARTO_PYTHON location '/usr/bin/python3'
[>] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
      Version: 3.12.4
      Path: C:/Users/Y/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python312/python.exe
      Jupyter: (None)

      Jupyter is not available in this Python installation.
      Install with py -m pip install jupyter

[>] Checking R installation...........OK
      Version: 4.3.2
      Path: C:/Users/Y/AppData/Local/Programs/R/R-4.3.2
      LibPaths:
        - C:/Users/Y/AppData/Local/Programs/R/R-4.3.2/library
      knitr: 1.47
      rmarkdown: 2.27

[>] Checking Knitr engine render......OK

Is there anything I am missing? or should install ?

Thank you in advance!

[cscheid]

This is a duplicate of quarto-dev/quarto-cli#10573, etc. Upgrade to 1.5.57 and that should go away.

[younits]

@cscheid Thanks for the tip - unfortunately, I am still having the same problem after updating to 1.5.57. What do I need to do now ?

[cscheid]

Are you positive you're using 1.5.57? I ask because, to be frank, your comment indicates you don't have a ton of experience with your computing setup:

However, here an error for apt is coming up:
"apt : The term 'apt' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling
of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again."
(wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb - works but did not solve the problem)

at criClient (file:///C:/Users/Y/AppData/Local/Programs/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:39317:15)

C:/Users/... indicates that you're running Windows. apt is a Linux program. I think you have more fundamental issues you're confused about here.

[ruipcarvalho]

@cscheid, I'm getting the same error, and I have upgraded to 1.5.57 (I am on Windows 11)

Essentially, Quarto takes very long time to parse files with mermaid diagrams and eventually gives the error:

ERROR: Couldn't find open server.
Chrome process error:

Stack trace:
Chrome process error:
at criClient (file:///C:/Program%20Files/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:39317:15)
at eventLoopTick (ext:core/01_core.js:153:7)
at async file:///C:/Program%20Files/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:39279:22
at async Semaphore.runExclusive (file:///C:/Program%20Files/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:38956:29)
at async Object.createPngsFromHtml (file:///C:/Program%20Files/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:39544:42)
at async makePng (file:///C:/Program%20Files/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:74827:70)
at async makeDefault (file:///C:/Program%20Files/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:74887:24)
at async Object.cell (file:///C:/Program%20Files/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:74910:20)
at async Promise.all (index 0)
at async Object.document (file:///C:/Program%20Files/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:39839: