[OS X TeX] Beginner's problem with TeXShop and .eps figures

[Adrian Heathcote]

On 19/06/2004, at 3:07 PM, Sameer Agarwal wrote:

> Actually when I wrote my reply, yours hadn't arrived in my mailbox 
> just yet.
> That said, a simple solution can only be phrased in so many ways..

True enough :)
>
> sameer
>
> On Jun 18, 2004, at 6:54 PM, Adrian Heathcote wrote:
>
>> Sameer
>>
>> was that a strange coincidence that you answered that question in 
>> almost identical words to those I'd used an hour before??
>>
>> Or are we running on the princple that no one ever reads the first 
>> reply, only ever the second?
>>
>> A.H.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 19/06/2004, at 11:13 AM, Sameer Agarwal wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Peter,
>>> TeXShop by default uses pdfTeX to process your documents. Hence the 
>>> error about eps files.  In the Typeset menu choose TeX+Ghostscript 
>>> instead of Pdftex and and everything should work.
>>>
>>> sameer
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 18, 2004, at 4:43 PM, Peter C. Young wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am a relative beginner in the art of Latex but I have used it in 
>>>> Textures for some time and found Textures to be a very well 
>>>> designed and useful implementation of Latex for a mathematically 
>>>> inclined scientist like me. However, I have been a little 
>>>> disappointed that BlueSky have not yet produced a native OSX 
>>>> version of Textures. As a result, I was attracted by references to 
>>>> TeXShop in tidbits-talk and downloaded all the the software 
>>>> suggested necessary by the
>>>>
>>>> http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html
>>>>
>>>> web-site (a rather longer process than I had expected). In order to 
>>>> test out TeXShop I then opened a large co-authored paper that was 
>>>> prepared in Textures but has also compiled without difficulty or 
>>>> changes in the PC-based Latex compiler of my co-author. I was 
>>>> impressed by the look and feel of TeXShop but, to my surprise, the 
>>>> paper did not compile fully in TeXShop, with the console informing 
>>>> me that that it could not typeset an \includegraphics.. figure 
>>>> instruction because of
>>>>
>>>> !Latex Error: unknown graphics extension: .eps.
>>>>
>>>> I got no complaint if I changed this to a \epsfxsize.. instruction 
>>>> but no figures appeared in the output despite this.
>>>>
>>>> Since I cannot believe that a Latex compiler is unable to recognize 
>>>> an .eps extension and process a standard figure instruction 
>>>> containing this, I must be doing something wrong. I would be most 
>>>> grateful, therefore, if one of the TeXShop/Latex experts on the 
>>>> mailing list could advise me on what I need to do to overcome this 
>>>> difficulty? Perhaps I have to download still more software?
>>>>
>>>> Peter Young
>>>> -- 
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