[pdftex] using includegraphics with pdflatex ...[pdflatex (file describeSL1.pdf):
cannot open image file]
Patrick Riley
pfr+pdftex at cs.cmu.edu
Wed Jun 6 10:06:29 CEST 2001
For some reason which I don't fully understand, \includegraphics with
pdftex uses the TEXPSHEADERS environment variable for the additional
paths to search. Try setting this appropriately. For example, I use:
setenv TEXPSHEADERS :${HOME}/tex//
HTH
--
Pat Riley
Third Year Ph.D. Student
Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Yann Gautier writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem with graphics in pdflatex. pdflatex doesn't seem to
> locate correctly the pdf files.
>
> I use the simple tex file :
>
> \documentclass{report}%[12pt,a4paper]{article}
> \newif\ifpdf
> \ifx\pdfoutput\undefined
> \pdffalse % we are not running PDFLaTeX
> \else
> \pdfoutput=1 % we are running PDFLaTeX
> \pdftrue
> \fi
> %
> \ifpdf
> \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
> \DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.pdf,.mps,.png,.jpg}
> \usepackage[pdftex]{hyperref}
> \else
> \usepackage{graphicx}
> \DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.eps}
> \fi
> \begin{document}
> \begin{figure}[hbtp]
> \centering
> \includegraphics{describeSL1}
> \end{figure}
> \end{document}
>
>
> the file describeSL1.pdf is located in another directory. When I run
> pdlatex, I get the following message :
> Error: pdflatex (file describeSL1.pdf): cannot open image file
>
> When I move describeSL1.pdf into the current directory it works well.
> Another weird thing is that kpsewhich describeSL1.pdf gives the correct
> location and that if I compile the latex file with latex, all the eps
> files are found.
>
> Is there a file to configure so that latex tries to locate the pfd file
> in the $TEXINPUTS directory list.
>
> I am running tetex 1.0x on an UltraSparc10
>
> Thanks in advance for your answer.
>
> Yann Gautier (yann.gautier at ifp.fr)
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