How to do shell escape?

Question

I read the answers and I'm not getting it. Some of them tell me to use preferences, others tell me to input

%!TEX option = --shell-escape

at the start.

Here's what my screen looks like, to show you that Idk where the Preferences tab is.

Basically want to convert that pic to png.

For efficiency in providing solutions, I'll provide the code in case there may be anything wrong with it:

\documentclass[convert=true]{standalone}

\usepackage{amsmath, amssymb}

\begin{document}
\(\{P,Q\}\vdash R \)
\end{document}

It would be a great help to fix this. Thanks.

EDIT. Here's the result after adding the --enable-18 as requested.

Is this really a question about shell-escape or do you just not have imagemagick or ghostscript? You need one of those to do the conversion (see manual of standalone). — TeXnician, May 06 '17 at 12:58
Then you are probably not failing with shell-escape. Please read the manual! — TeXnician, May 06 '17 at 13:00
Sorry. Good point. Technically, I thought standalone was simple enough that reading the package would be unnecessary. I guess not. — Osama Kawish, May 06 '17 at 13:09

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 06 '17 at 12:46

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Here's a quick answer utilizing this post (following picture comes from it):

tm shell escape

You can just add --enable-write18 (or --shell-escape respectively) to your pdflatex command.

answered May 06 '17 at 12:46

TeXnician

Please check the edit. The conversion still failed. – Osama Kawish May 06 '17 at 12:56
@OsamaKawish Have you also tried --shell-escape? – TeXnician May 06 '17 at 12:57
Yes. I attempted both. – Osama Kawish May 06 '17 at 12:58

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