[OS X TeX] Beginner's problem with TeXShop and .eps figures
Adrian Heathcote
adrian.heathcote at philosophy.usyd.edu.au
Sat Jun 19 01:18:34 EDT 2004
On 19/06/2004, at 3:07 PM, Sameer Agarwal wrote:
> 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..
True enough :)
>
> 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?
>>>>
>>>> Peter Young
>>>> --
>>>> Centre for Research on Environmental Systems and Statistics
>>>> CRESearch LANCASTER UNIVERSITY
>>>> Prof. Peter Young Director, CRES
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