<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I am baffled. Since I joined the Mac OS TeX community, I was given a method for processing pictures in plain TeX, which has been working seamlessly—until today. <div class="">I had transitioned from TeXtures, which used the \special{…} command for inserting pictures, to a more transparent, and more universally accepted method.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In particular, I used</div><div class="">\input miniltx.tex</div><div class="">and next, something like</div><div class="">\RequirePackage{graphicx} </div><div class="">and then I inserted pictures using, for example</div><div class="">\includegraphics[height=60mm]{RubiKo}</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Today, to my surprise, I found the method is not working anymore.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As soon as the \input miniltx.tex is typeset, I get an error. The console displays:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class="">This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.17 (TeX Live 2016) (preloaded format=pdftex)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""> \write18 enabled.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class="">entering extended mode</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class="">(./PicturesInPlainTex.tex</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class="">(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/plain/graphics-pln/miniltx.tex)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class="">(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class="">(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class="">(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class="">(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class="">(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics-cfg/graphics.cfg)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class="">(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics-def/pdftex.def</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class="">(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/infwarerr.sty)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class="">(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ltxcmds.sty)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class="">/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics-def/pdftex.def:1569: Unde</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class="">fined control sequence.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class="">l.1569 \@ifpackageloaded</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""> {pst-pdf}% hv 20160630</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class="">? </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class="">Process aborted</div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class="">Does anyone have an advice?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class="">Thanks,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""> Juan</div></body></html>