<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 at 09:37, Philip Taylor <<a href="mailto:P.Taylor@hellenic-institute.uk">P.Taylor@hellenic-institute.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 15/11/2024 08:52, David Carlisle
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> Executive summary: Create <a href="http://keg.ps" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">keg.ps</a>
rather than keg.pdf and then use<br>
"<a href="http://keg.ps" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">keg.ps</a>" rathe in the call to
\includegraphics
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<div class="gmail_quote">The standard advice is just to use
\includegraphics{keg} then each system</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">will use the extension that it can
support, .(e)ps with latex/dvips</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">and .pdf with pdflatex. <br>
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<p>But would that have helped Rolf before he had created (on Thomas
Schneider's advice) "<a href="http://keg.ps" target="_blank">keg.ps</a>" from "keg.pdf" ?</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Probably, yes.</div><div><br></div><div>As if you force latex to load foo.pdf it does what you ask, and hopes it's an EPS file despite the extension</div><div>so you get <br></div><div><br></div><div>! LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in foo.pdf (no BoundingBox).</div><div><br></div><div>whereas if you just use foo then it never even looks at the pdf file, and you get</div><div><br></div><div>l.7 \includegraphics{foo}<br> <br>? <br><br>! LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in <a href="http://foo.eps.bb">foo.eps.bb</a> (no BoundingBox).<br><br></div><div><br></div><div>showing it tried looking for foo.eps (and <a href="http://foo.eps.bb">foo.eps.bb</a>) which might have been a hint that EPS was required.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
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<i>** Phil.</i><br>
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