[OS X TeX] eps figure into document

Maarten Sneep maarten.sneep at xs4all.nl
Mon Nov 3 16:39:46 EST 2008


On 3 nov 2008, at 22:33, Joseph C. Slater PE, PhD wrote:

> On Mon 3rd Nov, 2008 at 14:04, Caitlyn Phillips seems to have written:
>
>> I can not get my file to compile with an eps figure in it. Just a  
>> simple
>> source code of what I'm using:
>> %!TEX TS-program = latex
>> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
>> \usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}
>> \begin{document}
>> Some text \includegraphics{graphA} and some more.
>> \end{document}
>>
>> and then the error message that I keep getting is:
>>
>> ### Saving intermediary ps file /tmp/altpdflatex.12057-1225742897/ 
>> Please
>> work.ps as Please work.ps
>> ### ps2pdf13 /tmp/altpdflatex.12057-1225742897/Please
>> work.ps/tmp/altpdflatex.12057-1225742897/Please work.pdf
>> /usr/texbin/simpdftex: line 495: ps2pdf13: command not found
>> ### FAILED to generate /tmp/altpdflatex.12057-1225742897/Please  
>> work.pdf ()
>>
>
>
> I agree with Clea. Spaces are bad in filenames. Start with that.

Nope, simpdftex is spaces-in-filenames safe. There is no reason to  
avoid spaces in filenames with the software that is supplied with  
TeXShop, or my BBEdit scripts.

Maarten



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