[OS X TeX] TeXShop: how to remedy "Unknown graphics extension: .eps"

Alexandre Bouquin bouquina001 at hawaii.rr.com
Sat Feb 5 04:43:57 CET 2005


Okay, it works by changing the Typeset menu to the option "TeX and 
Ghostscript".
Cool. I also did download ImageMagick with i-installer but do not see 
any "epstopng" nor "eps2png" (all I found are "epstopdf").
Am I doing something wrong?


Alex


On Feb 4, 2005, at 5:11 PM, Herb Schulz wrote:

> On 2/4/05 8:54 PM, "Alexandre Bouquin" <bouquina001 at hawaii.rr.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm new to LaTeX,
>>
>> Does anyone know how to get rid of this problem?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>> Alex
>>
>
> Howdy,
>
> If you've only got .eps graphics and are using TeXShop on the first 
> line of
> your LaTeX file type the line
>
> %&latex
>
> and the file will be typeset uisng the tex+ghostscript engine rather 
> than
> the default pdflatex. Another way to do that is to ``TeX and
> Ghostscript''option in the Typeset menu; but that will have to be 
> checked
> each time you start up.
>
> The reason you're having problems is that pdflatex only knows about 
> .pdf,
> .png and .jpg files using the graphic(x) package. If you have 
> ImageMagick
> installed (there is an i-package for it) you can use the epstopng 
> package
> which will translate the .eps file to .png before including it in the 
> file.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>
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