[OS X TeX] Silly puzzle, log file

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Oct 9, 2019, at 3:11 PM, Ross Moore <ross.moore at mq.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi Herb,
> 
>> On 10 Oct 2019, at 7:05 am, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>> > 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}
> 
> There is another possible issue here, related to where the image is stored.
> It better not be in the same directory as your main document,
> else it will be clobbered by pdfTeX writing out the current job.
> 
> Thus you’ll need a  \graphicspath  entry to find its actual directory.
> 
> 
>> 
>> 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)

Howdy,

Further thinking about it shows that prepending won't fix the problem since the file still gets overwritten.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)