[Macpartners] help with pdflatex?
Annika Pfluger
annika at csail.mit.edu
Thu Jan 20 15:16:28 EST 2005
HI Ken,
Try putting this macro before your \begin{document} command.
-Annika
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%This is a macro to convert eps to pdf files on the fly.
% make sure figure syntax uses graphicx syntax NOT epsfig syntax
\ifx\pdfoutput\undefined
% we are running LaTeX, not pdflatex
\usepackage{graphicx}
\else
% we are running pdflatex, so convert .eps files to .pdf
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\fi
*****************************************
At 3:03 PM -0500 1/20/05, Ken Pierce wrote:
>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
>
>--------------------
>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
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