[OS X TeX] Silly puzzle, log file

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Oct 9, 2019, at 2:54 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Oct 9, 2019, at 1:22 PM, Ross Moore <ross.moore at mq.edu.au> wrote:
>> 
>> George,
>> 
>> your image file has the same name as your \jobname ,
>> that is, the PDF that you are building.
>> 
>> Silly indeed.
>> 
>> On 10/10/2019, at 0:14, "gratzer via MacOSX-TeX" <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> A few days ago, I posted this silly puzzle:
>>> 
>>> I'm writing a paper, swing.tex. I drew a nice illustration in Illustrator, swing.eps, converted it with TeXShop to pdf. It is included in the tex file with 
>>> 
>>> \begin{figure}[htb]
>>> \centerline{\includegraphics[scale = .9]{swing}}
>>> \caption{Illustrating a swing}\label{F:swingillustration}
>>> %Figure~\ref{F:swingillustration}
>>> \end{figure}
>>> 
>>> Cannot typeset the file. Silly puzle: why?
>>> 
>>> To my surprise, nobody had the obvious answer. So now I am giving it away with the log file:
>>> 
>>> (/usr/local/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/tex/latex/microtype/mt-euf.cfg) [1{/usr/loc
>>> al/texlive/2019/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]Syntax Error: Couldn't read xref table
>>> Syntax Warning: PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table...
>>> Syntax Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
>>> Syntax Error: Couldn't read xref table
>>> 
>>> Does this help?
>>> 
>>> George
>>> 
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Ross, what a perfect solution!!!
> 
> An interesting thing is that if swing.eps wasn't converted to swing.pdf directly recent (quite a few years now) pdflatex engines would have automatically converted the .eps file to swing-eps-converted-to.pdf using ghostscript and there would have been no problem. Sometimes habits come back to bite you! :-) I believe one of the solutions to the problem gave this solution but no explanation.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)

Howdy,

Sigh... I just realized that there still would have been a problem if

\includegraphics[scale = .9]{swing}

was used but not if 

\includegraphics[scale = .9]{swing.eps}

was used.

PS: I've got my system set up to have the automatic conversion be file.eps->file.pdf so I would have gotten bitten!!! Well, maybe not since I also `prepend' the extension to the list.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)