[texworks] Message from TeXworks user

sigmundv at gmail.com sigmundv at gmail.com
Mon Nov 21 00:06:14 CET 2011


On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 23:02, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>wrote:


> I don't know how things are with MikTeX but with recent versions of TeX
> Live the graphicx package includes epstopdf package and pdflatex has the
> ability to automatically do a conversion
> file.eps->file-eps-converted-to.pdf and then include that .pdf file even
> without using -shell-escape (it uses a highly restricted form of epstopdf
> without -shell-escape). Whether this can happen is configurable so MikTeX
> may have it turned off. Oh... I believe you must have Ghostscript installed
> to use epstopdf.
>

Thank you for the tip, Herr Schulz. I wasn't aware that graphicx includes
epstopdf.

/Sigmund
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