Okay, the solution proposed (simpdftex latex --extratexopts "-synctex=1" <filename>) worked fine. However, regarding this: >> First, TeX Live 2009 (to be released soon) includes a new version of the >> epstopdf package which performs on-the-fly conversion of EPS files when >> compiled with pdfTeX. Just to make sure – you did mean pdfLaTeX, right?