[tex-k] Interesting problems with EPS file searchng (with dvips)

Akira Kakuto kakuto@fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.jp
Thu, 29 Nov 2001 23:25:57 +0900


From: Tom Kacvinsky <tjk@ams.org>
Subject: [tex-k] Interesting problems with EPS file searchng (with dvips)

> I am using using the following (output from dvips --version):
> 
>   dvips(k) 5.86
>   kpathsea version 3.3.1
> 
> I have a DVI file (file.dvi) in which the graphic \specials specify the EPS
> files with a path like "./eps/foo.eps".
> 
> The directory structure I have is this:
> 
>     /path/to/dvi
>     /path/to/dvi/eps
> 
> The file.dvi is in /path/to/dvi and the EPS files are in /path/to/dvi/eps.
> 
> If I have /path/to/dvi as my CWD and run dvips on file.dvi, the graphics are
> found.
> 
> If I have /path/to as my CWD and run dvips on dvi/file.dvi, the graphics are not
> found (not surprising).  So I set the environment variable TEXINPUTS to
> "/path/to/dvi/eps:" and rerun dvips on dvi/file.dvi.  The graphics are still not
> found.

Please set TEXPICTS=/path/to/dvi//:
or TEXPICTS=/path/to//:.
There is no ./eps/foo.eps in /path/to/dvi/eps.

Akira
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Akira Kakuto