<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I don't know if you're using TeXShop, but if you are, the drill is a little non-intuitive.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">First, you open the EPS <I>with TeXShop</I>, and this calls ImageMagick or GhostScript or something which turns the EPS into a PDF. </SPAN></DIV><DIV>(The experts will tell you and me, too.)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">When you choose the EPS file with File->Open, you will see eventually the EPS image rendered as a PDF. Close the image file.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Then, in the LaTeX file, you say, as you did,</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>\includegraphics{filename}</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Do NOT include the .PDF extension.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>And that should do it, at least if you are generating a PDF file with LaTeX.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Anyway, that's what I've been doing for years.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>David Derbes</DIV><DIV>U of Chicago Laboratory Schools</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><DIV><DIV>On Nov 3, 2008, at 2:04 PM, Caitlyn Phillips wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">I can not get my file to compile with an eps figure in it. Just a simple source code of what I'm using: <DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><DIV>%!TEX TS-program = latex</DIV><DIV>\documentclass[12pt]{article}</DIV><DIV>\usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}</DIV> <DIV>\begin{document}</DIV><DIV>Some text \includegraphics{graphA} and some more.</DIV><DIV>\end{document}</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>and then the error message that I keep getting is:</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><DIV>### Saving intermediary ps file /tmp/altpdflatex.12057-1225742897/Please <A href="http://work.ps">work.ps</A> as Please <A href="http://work.ps">work.ps</A></DIV> <DIV>### ps2pdf13 /tmp/altpdflatex.12057-1225742897/Please <A href="http://work.ps">work.ps</A> /tmp/altpdflatex.12057-1225742897/Please work.pdf</DIV><DIV>/usr/texbin/simpdftex: line 495: ps2pdf13: command not found</DIV> <DIV>### FAILED to generate /tmp/altpdflatex.12057-1225742897/Please work.pdf ()</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Thanks!</DIV><DIV>Caitlyn</DIV></DIV></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">TeX FAQ: <A href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">List Reminders and Etiquette: <A href="http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/list/">http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/list/</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">List Archive: <A href="http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/">http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">TeX on Mac OS X Website: <A href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org">http://mactex-wiki.tug.org</A>/</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">List Info: <A href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>