[OS X TeX] inputting figures that are pfd files

[Bruce Kellogg]

Thanks to everyone who made suggestions on my problem. Here is what I  
found:

1. Using graphicx started to produce some indication of success.

2. Using the crop statement in viewport gave an error message.

3. Using pdfcrop in a terminal window gave an error message;
    the program was unable to copy the cropped file from a tmp location
    to my desired directory. I looked in the /tmp directory and did not
    find it there. No man pages for pdfcrop, so I gave that up. But ...

4. I fiddled with the parameters in viewport, and finally the picture  
showed up!!
    Overlaying some text, to be sure, but now I will be able to bring  
it to where
    I want it.

So I consider my problem resolved, if awkwardly. It is not the first  
time that this
forum has helped me, so thanks again.

Bruce Kellogg
On Apr 10, 2006, at 8:53 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On Apr 10, 2006, at 5:52 AM, Bruce Kellogg wrote:
>
>> Sorry to continue on this silly question. Following Ross Moore's  
>> suggestion I use the
>> command
>>
>> \includegraphics [viewport= 0 0 144 216,crop ]{fb2}
>>
>> and I get the error message:
>>
>>    --------------------
>> ! Missing number, treated as zero.
>> <to be read again>
>>                    v
>> l.137 ...aphics [viewport= 0 0 144 216,crop ]{fb2}
>>    --------------------
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>
> Howdy,
>
> This sounds like you are using the graphics package instead of the  
> suggested graphicx package.
>
> Try opening the pdf file with TeXShop. It should be a tightly  
> cropped image; i.e., the ``page boundaries'' should be just outside  
> of the image. I have a feeling that your figure is taking up a  
> small part of a full page. The included graphics then tries to  
> display the full page which doesn't fit.
>
> If that is true you might be able to get a proper bounding box by  
> going into Terminal (by the way that's where you execute the other  
> command line commands suggested before), changing to the directory  
> where the figure pdf is located and then run
>
> pdfcrop figure.pdf
>
> on your figure file (figure.pdf here) which would produce the file  
> figure-crop.pdf. Opening that file in TeXShop should show the  
> proper page size / bounding box.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>
>
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