[texworks] dvi -> dvips -> ps2pdf

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Charlie Sharpsteen wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:17 AM, sigmundv at gmail.com <sigmundv at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I would just like to point out that one doesn't have to understand neither
>> dvi nor ps to run the commands "latex" and "dvips".
>> 
> 
> Well, you do have to be careful here---not understanding dvi and ps leads
> many newcomers to questions like "Why doesn't my PNG file show up in the
> final PDF!?!?! HELP!!!".
> 
> -Charlie

Howdy,

And, until recently (2009) we got lots of questions about why people's eps figures didn't get included when they use pdflatex.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)