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I'm not sure. The problem is I'm working with a large document that I didn't write myself. I'm adding to it, but I'm not going to change the existing text.

I think I've isolated the problem: eepic. If I take out this line: my minimal example works. Of course, that package is necessary for other parts of the document.

I've attached a minimal example with log and pdf. I appreciate any help.

Mark

Thanks for the suggestions. It's definitely not my viewer, and unfortunately pict2e didn't help.

There must be something else going on but I'm not sure what it would be.

When I add the following code:

\begin{picture}(60, 40)
\put(30, 20){\vector(4, 1){5}}
\end{picture}


it compiles ...

Thanks for the quick reply. After reading your post I realized there were some lines in the log that said "non-PDF special ignored". I've realized the problem is that I am using pdflatex instead of latex to build. The vectors work when I use latex, except then I get a whole bunch of "Cannot ...

For some reason I can't get diagonal arrows/vectors to work. Only the arrowhead shows up - the line is missing. For example, in the following, the first vector is fine (horizontal) but the second just gives a floating arrowhead.

\setlength{\unitlength}{1mm}
\begin{picture}(60, 40)
\put(30, 20 ...