[OS X TeX] Re: paths for graphics files

[Arthur Snoke]

If it is not going to work properly, why does it continue as though all 
was okay?

It was embarrasing when I came up with the blank image in class.

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 30.01.2006 um 16:15 schrieb Arthur Snoke:
>
>> One thing that works on the Sun but not on the Mac is a relative path to a 
>> graphics file.  On the sun, it works fine:
>> 
>> [1] [2] [3] <../images/ccd2.eps> [4] [5] (otoday.aux) )
>> (see the transcript file for additional information)
>
> This is for security reasons! dvips is not allowed to search/look 'upwards' 
> for a file to include. The -R option is connected to this behaviour. I think 
> this behaviour cannot be switched off ...
>
> Maybe it works when you get an elder version of dvips (TeX Live 2004).
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