# Empty PDF in IEEE Communication Template

I am stuck in a very weird problem. When I just write a line $I_E(0)$ in the attached IEEE template, I get an empty PDF. If I remove this line, I get perfect compile and PDF output.

\documentclass[journal,comsoc]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}% optional T1 font encoding
\usepackage{amsmath}
\interdisplaylinepenalty=2500
\usepackage[cmintegrals]{newtxmath}
\hyphenation{op-tical net-works semi-conduc-tor}
\begin{document}
\title{Bare Demo of IEEEtran.cls for\\ IEEE Communications Society Journals}
\author{Michael~Shell,~\IEEEmembership{Member,~IEEE,}
John~Doe,~\IEEEmembership{Fellow,~OSA,}
and~Jane~Doe,~\IEEEmembership{Life~Fellow,~IEEE}% <-this % stops a space
\thanks{M. Shell was with the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta,
GA, 30332 USA e-mail: (see http://www.michaelshell.org/contact.html).}% <-this % stops a space
\thanks{J. Doe and J. Doe are with Anonymous University.}% <-this % stops a space
\thanks{Manuscript received April 19, 2005; revised August 26, 2015.}}
\markboth{Journal of \LaTeX\ Class Files,~Vol.~14, No.~8, August~2015}%
{Shell \MakeLowercase{\textit{et al.}}: Bare Demo of IEEEtran.cls for IEEE Communications Society Journals}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
The abstract goes here.
\end{abstract}
\begin{IEEEkeywords}
Communications Society, IEEE, IEEEtran, journal, \LaTeX, paper, template.
\end{IEEEkeywords}
\IEEEpeerreviewmaketitle
\section{Introduction}
$I_E(0)$
\end{document}


PS: I have removed the unnecessary comments from the original file available at: IEEE Template

• It doesn't compile because I don't have the package newtxmath. Could this package - even if you have it installed, which I assume - be the reason for strange behavior with math expressions? – engineer Dec 28 '17 at 11:57
• @ubaabd Interestingly, I can reproduce your problem using pdflatex while your MWE works fine if I use latex+dvips+ps2pdf. – leandriis Dec 28 '17 at 12:45