General ⇒ Figures corrupted when formatting directly to PDF

[Aski]

I am having trouble with my figures when formatting my document directly to PDF. When using the way via PS it works. How come?

Neither non-horizontal nor non-vertical lines drawn by command put or command path are drawn when formatting LaTeX => PDF.

Anyone having an explanation? (I am happy that I found out it worked with LaTeX => PS => PDF, I thought I would have trouble for days to make it work.)

Cheers, Aski

[noerv]

I am having trouble with my figures when formatting my document directly to PDF. When using the way via PS it works. How come?

Neither non-horizontal nor non-vertical lines drawn by command put or command path are drawn when formatting LaTeX => PDF.

Anyone having an explanation? (I am happy that I found out it worked with LaTeX => PS => PDF, I thought I would have trouble for days to make it work.)

Cheers, Aski

Are your figures in *.eps format? If they are, this is the answer.

[Aski]

No, they are drawn direclty in LaTeX. Here is an example:
\begin{figure}[htb]
\centering
\setlength{\unitlength}{1cm}
\begin{picture}(7,6.5)
%triangel ABC
\put(2,3){\line(1,0){3}}
\put(2,3){\line(15,30){1.5}}
\put(5,3){\line(-15,30){1.5}}
\end{picture}
\caption{Likbent triangel, förlängning av benen}
\label{fig:LikbentForlangning}
\end{figure}

The horizontal line is drawn when formatting LaTeX=>PDF, but not the other two. I am using TeXnicCenter if that might influence the result

[localghost]

No, they are drawn direclty in LaTeX. Here is an example: [...] The horizontal line is drawn when formatting LaTeX=>PDF, but not the other two. I am using TeXnicCenter if that might influence the result

This code can't work, neither with latex nor pdflatex. And trying to compile it, there are four errors. The reasons are three important rules for the (x,y) pairs in the \line(x,y){length} command.

1. The used values for the slope have to be integers.
2. Only the values 0,1,...,6 are allowed.
3. The pair of values mustn't have a common divisor.

And your code violates rules 2 and 3. According to these rules, your code has to be modified as follows.

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\begin{figure}[!ht]
  \centering
  \setlength{\unitlength}{1cm}
  \begin{picture}(7,6.5)
    % triangle ABC
    \put(2,3){\line(1,0){3}}
    \put(2,3){\line(1,2){1.5}}
    \put(5,3){\line(-1,2){1.5}}
  \end{picture}
  \caption{Likbent triangel, förlängning av benen}\label{fig:LikbentForlangning}
\end{figure}

You should think about drawing such sketches with packages like pgf/tikZ.


Best regards
Thorsten¹