[pdftex] no BoundingBox

[Jan Anderssen]

Hi Riccardo.

> (4) When I tipeset the (3)sourcefile, TexShop says that it does not   
> find the  qqq file.
> If the  \includegraphics argument is qqq.pdf, TexShop says that the   
> graphic file has no BoundingBox.

The problem is that you're trying to include a pdf rather than a (e)ps  
file when your using latex -> dvips -> pstopdf.

There are in principle two options:
- if you can work without PSTricks (or use a wrapper that produces  
intermediate pdf files like ps4pdf), use pdflatex
- otherwise include a ps file, e.g. by converting your cropped pdf  
file to ps on the command line with pdf2ps (part of ghostscript, I  
believe), or with Adobe Acrobat (save as ps).

But I think in your case, you should have a look at Pierre Chatelier's  
LaTeXiT GUI (http://ktd.club.fr/programmation/latexit_en.php)? It does  
all the cropping etc, and you can simply save the resulting image as  
an .eps file, which will fit into your workflow.

P.S. For Mac-specific questions, such as TeXShop settings, there's  
also the mac-tex mailing list: http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex

Cheers,
Jan


On Feb 9, 2009, at 9:31 AM, riccardo nisi wrote:

> I am Riccardo Nisi and I write a very bad English.
> My computer is MacMini, OSX  10.6.
> I am using TexShop + Latex and the MacTex 2007 package.
>
> (1) I am using TexShop and Latex with the PSTricks package for to
> produce mathematical
> graphics, and the first line of my source file (we say qqq.tex) is
> %TEX TS-program = latex.
> TexShop typesets my qqq.tex and the output is qqq.pdf.
>
> (2) I crop the file qqq.pdf with the Preview application and  save the
> new qqq.pdf.
>
> (3) I am in need of to insert the separate graphics into an other
> source file, wich uses
> the PSTricks package (the first line is %TEX TS-program =latex), with
> \incudegraphics{qqq}.
>
> (4) When I tipeset the (3)sourcefile, TexShop says that it does not
> find the  qqq file.
> If the  \includegraphics argument is qqq.pdf, TexShop says that the
> graphic file has no
> BoundingBox.
>
> I ask you as or if it is possible to solve these problems with
> TexShop, also using the Terminal.
> I will be grateful to you for your kind reply.
>
> Riccardo Nisi
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