[OS X TeX] eps images in pdflatex

[Peter Nillius]

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le lundi, 30 sep 2002, à 14:18 Europe/Paris, Peter Nillius a écrit :
>
> It took me some time to find where this file epstopdf.sty lives (I had
> not rebuilt Locator's database for 78 days!), here it is:
>
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/latex/oberdiek/epstopdf.sty
>
> Looking at the file, it seems to rely on shell-escape:
>
> > % Required:  * The program `epstopdf'.
> > %            * The feature `\write18' has to be enabled to get
> > %              the conversion via the program epstopdf work:
> > %              * command line option: -shell-escape
> > %                example: pdflatex -shell-escape test.tex
> > %              * configuraton file `texmf.cnf': shell_escape = 1
>
>  From previous emails on this list, isn't there a problem with shell
> escapes under OS X 10.2?
>
> In any case I just tried this esptopdf.sty package, it doesn't work for
> me, the .log file says:
>
> > epstopdf Figures/surfgen.eps
> > system()...disabled.
> >
> >
> > Error: pdftex (file Figures/surfgen.pdf): cannot find image file
>
> Could it be that you have Fink installed, or that you have customized
> your shell initialisation file?
>


You're right it does require the (pdflatex) option --shell-escape.
With that option though it seems to work fine.

I do have fink installed but I don't really use it and I tried to run
pdflatex whithout 'source /sw/fink/bin.init.sh' in my
'rc.mine' file. It still worked.

Peter



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