[OS X TeX] eps figure into document

[David Derbes]

I don't know if you're using TeXShop, but if you are, the drill is a  
little non-intuitive.

First, you open the EPS with TeXShop, and this calls ImageMagick or  
GhostScript or something which turns the EPS into a PDF.
(The experts will tell you and me, too.)

When you choose the EPS file with File->Open, you will see eventually  
the EPS image rendered as a PDF. Close the image file.

Then, in the LaTeX file, you say, as you did,

\includegraphics{filename}

Do NOT include the .PDF extension.

And that should do it, at least if you are generating a PDF file with  
LaTeX.

Anyway, that's what I've been doing for years.

David Derbes
U of Chicago Laboratory Schools

On Nov 3, 2008, at 2:04 PM, Caitlyn Phillips wrote:

> 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 ()
>
> Thanks!
> Caitlyn
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