[Macpartners] help with pdflatex?

[Ken Pierce]

Greetings,

Greg Dancer, the computer tech support person in HST, suggested I 
send a message to macpartners.  I'm looking for someone who might be 
able to help me troubleshoot problems with pdflatex on a mac.  I'm 
not able to get pdflatex to work as it's supposed to with included 
eps files -- apparently it calls epstopdf to create a pdf file if one 
doesn't exist, but the pdf never gets made, or gets put somewhere 
that pdflatex doesn't look.  Other than that, pdflatex seems to work 
fine.

I've tried variations of this problem using the fink installation of 
tetex and gs, with similar results.

Below are details.  I'd welcome your advice, if you have the time and 
inclination to offer it.

Thanks,

Ken

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Trying to use pdflatex to make a pdf file from testpdf2.tex.  The 
file includes the line

\includegraphics{circle}

Here's a directory listing:

>  [rgm-assist:6.022j-2005/test/testdisplay] kpierce% ls -l
>  total 552
>  -rwxr-xr-x  1 kpierce  unknown  258920 20 Jan 14:12 circle.eps
>  -rw-r--r--  1 kpierce  unknown       8 20 Jan 14:39 testpdf2.aux
>  -rw-r--r--  1 kpierce  unknown     304 20 Jan 14:11 testpdf2.dvi
>  -rw-r--r--  1 kpierce  unknown    4293 20 Jan 14:39 testpdf2.log
>  -rw-r--r--  1 kpierce  unknown     424 20 Jan 14:00 testpdf2.tex
>

When I try to run pdflatex, I get an error message:


>  [rgm-assist:6.022j-2005/test/testdisplay] kpierce% pdflatex testpdf2.tex
>  This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3)
>  output format initialized to PDF
>  entering extended mode
>  (./testpdf2.tex
>  LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
>  Babel <v3.8c> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, 
>spanish, swedish,
>  nohyphenation, loaded.
>  (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/article.cls
>  Document Class: article 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
>  (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/size12.clo))
>  (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
>  (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
>  (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
>  (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
>  (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.cfg)
>  (/Users/kpierce/Library/texmf/tex/latex/KPTeX/inputs/pdftex.def)))
>  (/Users/kpierce/Library/texmf/tex/latex/KPTeX/inputs/epstopdf.sty)
>  (./testpdf2.aux)
>  (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.tex
>  (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/supp-mis.tex
>  loading : Context Support Macros / Miscellaneous (2004.10.26)
>  )
>  loading : Context Support Macros / PDF (2004.10.26)
>  )
>  epstopdf circle.eps
>
>  Error: pdflatex (file circle.pdf): cannot find image file
>   ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished!
>

But I can use epstopdf to create a pdf file from the eps:

>  [rgm-assist:6.022j-2005/test/testdisplay] kpierce% epstopdf circle.eps
>

After which pdflatex runs without complaint:

>  [rgm-assist:6.022j-2005/test/testdisplay] kpierce% pdflatex testpdf2.tex
>  This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3)
>  output format initialized to PDF
>  entering extended mode
>  (./testpdf2.tex
>  LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
>  Babel <v3.8c> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, 
>spanish, swedish,
>  nohyphenation, loaded.
>  (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/article.cls
>  Document Class: article 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
>  (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/size12.clo))
>  (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
>  (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
>  (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
>  (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
>  (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.cfg)
>  (/Users/kpierce/Library/texmf/tex/latex/KPTeX/inputs/pdftex.def)))
>  (/Users/kpierce/Library/texmf/tex/latex/KPTeX/inputs/epstopdf.sty)
>  (./testpdf2.aux)
>  (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.tex
>  (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/supp-mis.tex
>  loading : Context Support Macros / Miscellaneous (2004.10.26)
>  )
>  loading : Context Support Macros / PDF (2004.10.26)
>  ) <circle.pdf, id=1, 132.495pt x 130.4875pt> <use circle.pdf> 
>[1{/usr/local/teT
>  eX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map} <./circle.pdf>]
>  (./testpdf2.aux) 
>)</usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cm
>  r12.pfb>
>  Output written on testpdf2.pdf (1 page, 5673 bytes).
>  Transcript written on testpdf2.log.
>
>  [rgm-assist:6.022j-2005/test/testdisplay] kpierce% ls -l
>  total 576
>  -rwxr-xr-x  1 kpierce  unknown  258920 20 Jan 14:12 circle.eps
>  -rw-r--r--  1 kpierce  unknown    1090 20 Jan 14:41 circle.pdf
>  -rw-r--r--  1 kpierce  unknown       8 20 Jan 14:41 testpdf2.aux
>  -rw-r--r--  1 kpierce  unknown     304 20 Jan 14:11 testpdf2.dvi
>  -rw-r--r--  1 kpierce  unknown    4293 20 Jan 14:41 testpdf2.log
>  -rw-r--r--  1 kpierce  unknown    5673 20 Jan 14:41 testpdf2.pdf
>  -rw-r--r--  1 kpierce  unknown     424 20 Jan 14:00 testpdf2.tex