[OS X TeX] inputting figures that are pfd files

[Ross Moore]

Hello Bruce,

On 10/04/2006, at 8:52 PM, 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}
>    --------------------

Did you use  \usepackage{graphicx}  ?

Note the 'x'.

With just  \usepackage{graphics}  the optional argument
is indeed looking for numbers immediately.


Hope this helps,

	Ross


>
> Bruce
>
>
> On Apr 9, 2006, at 10:57 PM, Ross Moore wrote:
>
>> Hello Bruce,
>>
>> On 10/04/2006, at 9:56 AM, Bruce Kellogg wrote:
>>
>>> Continuing with my problem of importing pdf files,
>>> I note that the book of Kopka and Daly say that one should
>>> use viewport instead of bb in importing pdf files. So I have
>>> used the command
>>>
>>> \includegraphics[viewport=0.in 0.in 2.in 3.in]{fb2}
>>
>> No.  The viewport is a set of numbers, denoting points;
>> e.g.
>>    \includegraphics[viewport=0 0 144 216,clip]{fb2}
>>
>> Also, you need the 'clip' if all you want is the
>> part within the viewpoint rectangle.
>> Otherwise, anything else in the actual picture will
>> be shown as well, perhaps obscuring what has come before,
>> or acting as a background for the material coming after.
>>
>>>
>>> I get the error message:
>>>
>>>
>>> Runaway argument?
>>> viewport=0.in 0.in 2.in 3.in]{fb2}
>>> ! Paragraph ended before \Gin at iii was complete.
>>> <to be read again>
>>>                    \par
>>> l.138
>>>
>>>
>>> Can anyone say what this means and where my error is?
>>
>>  See above.
>>
>>>> I can open the pdf files by themselves. I tried another figure,
>>>> also without success. Also, since the mac readily generates
>>>> pdf files to print documents, I tried writing a one line text file,
>>>> saved it as a pdf file, and tried inputting it using the  
>>>> \includegraphics
>>>> command. I suppose that should have worked, but it did not.
>>
>> Was the space for it allocated ?  (i.e., left blank)
>>
>>>>> I am a TeX user, gradually switching to LaTeX.
>>>>> In TeX, I often used PiCTeX to generate figures,
>>>>> so I have tried to do this in LaTeX. For this I have
>>>>> used TeX and PiCTeX to generate a small figure,
>>>>> obtaining a pdf file, called fos.pdf. I put the statement
>>>>>
>>>>> \usepackage{graphics}
>>>>>
>>>>> near the top of a LaTeX document, and I put the statement
>>>>>
>>>>> \includegraphics{fos}
>>>>>
>>>>> somewhere in the file. When processing the file with LaTeX,
>>>>> I get the usual pdf output up to the point where the
>>>>> \includegraphics statement is, then nothing else. The logfile
>>>>> gives the message
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> <fos.pdf, id=1, 614.295pt x 794.97pt> <use fos.pdf>
>>>>> Overfull \hbox (159.5385pt too wide) in paragraph at lines  
>>>>> 134--135
>>>>> [][]
>>
>> Are you sure the picture isn't out to the right,
>> extending into the margin and being cut-off at the
>> edge of the paper?
>>  At 159.5pts too wide, that's > 5cm extra width.
>>
>>
>>>>> and seems to continue processing the file. (Lines 134--135 are  
>>>>> at the
>>>>> \includegraphics statement.) I confess to not understanding
>>>>> the comments about the bounding box in the section on  
>>>>> \includegraphics
>>>>> in the book of Kopta and Daly. But, just to try something I  
>>>>> modified the statement to
>>>>>
>>>>> \includegraphics[0cm,0cm][2cm,2cm]{fos}
>>>>>
>>>>> Now I got a full set of output, but with a blank space where I  
>>>>> would
>>>>> have expected the figure, and no relevant comments in the log  
>>>>> file as
>>>>> far as I could see. Any suggestions?
>>
>> Can you post the image somewhere for us to download and test ?
>>
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> 	Ross Moore
>>
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