[OS X TeX] Beginner's problem with TeXShop and .eps figures

[Sameer Agarwal]

Actually when I wrote my reply, yours hadn't arrived in my mailbox just 
yet.
That said, a simple solution can only be phrased in so many ways..

sameer

On Jun 18, 2004, at 6:54 PM, Adrian Heathcote wrote:

> Sameer
>
> was that a strange coincidence that you answered that question in 
> almost identical words to those I'd used an hour before??
>
> Or are we running on the princple that no one ever reads the first 
> reply, only ever the second?
>
> A.H.
>
>
>
> On 19/06/2004, at 11:13 AM, Sameer Agarwal wrote:
>
>> Hi Peter,
>> TeXShop by default uses pdfTeX to process your documents. Hence the 
>> error about eps files.  In the Typeset menu choose TeX+Ghostscript 
>> instead of Pdftex and and everything should work.
>>
>> sameer
>>
>>
>> On Jun 18, 2004, at 4:43 PM, Peter C. Young wrote:
>>
>>> I am a relative beginner in the art of Latex but I have used it in 
>>> Textures for some time and found Textures to be a very well designed 
>>> and useful implementation of Latex for a mathematically inclined 
>>> scientist like me. However, I have been a little disappointed that 
>>> BlueSky have not yet produced a native OSX version of Textures. As a 
>>> result, I was attracted by references to TeXShop in tidbits-talk and 
>>> downloaded all the the software suggested necessary by the
>>>
>>> http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html
>>>
>>> web-site (a rather longer process than I had expected). In order to 
>>> test out TeXShop I then opened a large co-authored paper that was 
>>> prepared in Textures but has also compiled without difficulty or 
>>> changes in the PC-based Latex compiler of my co-author. I was 
>>> impressed by the look and feel of TeXShop but, to my surprise, the 
>>> paper did not compile fully in TeXShop, with the console informing 
>>> me that that it could not typeset an \includegraphics.. figure 
>>> instruction because of
>>>
>>> !Latex Error: unknown graphics extension: .eps.
>>>
>>> I got no complaint if I changed this to a \epsfxsize.. instruction 
>>> but no figures appeared in the output despite this.
>>>
>>> Since I cannot believe that a Latex compiler is unable to recognize 
>>> an .eps extension and process a standard figure instruction 
>>> containing this, I must be doing something wrong. I would be most 
>>> grateful, therefore, if one of the TeXShop/Latex experts on the 
>>> mailing list could advise me on what I need to do to overcome this 
>>> difficulty? Perhaps I have to download still more software?
>>>
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