[l2h] Another take on the 'no images' problem

[Christopher Willmot]

Maybe the graphicx package is one of those that don't detect pdflatex
correctly?
I was premature in announcing my solution to the 'no dvi' problem.
The command line switch has no effect if the preamble includes

/usepackage[pdftex]{graphics}

but works fine if the pdftex option is removed. My solution uses  
oberdiek's ifpdf package:

\ifpdf
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\else
\usepackage{graphicx}
\fi



On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 09:32:48 +0100, Robin Fairbairns
<Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>   One way to fix the problem is to have
>       \pdfoutput=0
>   at the top of your LaTeX jobs, but there should
>   be an easier way to configure the same result.
>
> no, after loading the package that breaks things.  the problem is that  
> some
> packages (including html.sty, last i looked) use a broken means of  
> detecting
> that they're using pdflatex, and on modern distributions this brokenness  
> means
> that it *always* decides it's using pdflatex, regardless of how latex was
> called.
>
> i've mentioned this before here.  is there a way to distribute a  
> "working"
> html.sty, or do we have to wait until someone (presumably poor old ross)
> has time to produce a new distribution?
>
> for reference: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=ifpdf
>
> robin
>
>



-- 
Christopher Willmot