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

[Alexandre Bouquin]

Okay, great! I read the URL and tried Herb's advices.
It all works and it all makes much more sense now!
Thanks for your time guys!

At last, this is from far the most useful Mailing List I've ever used.

Cheers,

Alex

On Feb 4, 2005, at 5:43 PM, Alexandre Bouquin wrote:

> 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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