[pdftex] newbie question

rhowlett at mail.usyd.edu.au rhowlett at mail.usyd.edu.au
Fri May 11 18:45:13 CEST 2001


pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-13d (Web2C 7.3.1)
is by now very old; so the first thing
to do is update it and also update the
graphics package.


Quoting Javier Pinto <jpinto at research.bell-labs.com>:

> Hi,
> 
> I am using pdflatex and have problems including pictures. Following
> the
> instructions on the pdfTeX-FAQ, I wrote the following test:
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
> \begin{document}
> \includegraphics{interface.pdf}
> \end{document}
> 
> interface.pdf is a file that acroread has no problems showing
> me. However, the resulting pdf file produced by pdflatex is all
> screwed
> up. The figure comes out tilted and totally blackened. In case it
> matters, the pdflatex output is below. I'd appreciate any help. 
> 
> 
> Thanks, Javier.
> 
> Running `PdfLaTeX' on `x' with ``pdflatex x''
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-13d (Web2C 7.3.1)
> (x.tex[/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg]
> LaTeX2e <1998/12/01> patch level 1
> Babel <v3.6x> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
> ngerman, i
> talian, nohyphenation, loaded.
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> Document Class: article 1999/01/07 v1.4a Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/graphics.cfg) (pdftex.def)))
> (x.aux)
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.tex
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/supp-mis.tex
> loading : Context Support Macros / Missing
> )
> loading : Context Support Macros / PDF
> ) <interface.pdf, id=1, 0.0pt x 0.0pt> <use interface.pdf>
> Overfull \hbox (24.32288pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 4--5
> [][] 
> [1[/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map] <./interface.pdf>] (x.aux)
> )
> (see the transcript file for additional information)<cmr10.pfb>
> Output written on x.pdf (1 page, 12668 bytes).
> Transcript written on x.log.
> 
> PdfLaTeX finished at Thu May 10 16:14:15
> 
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