General ⇒ inserting JPEG image in MIKTEX

[rajaijah]

I am trying to insert images in jpeg format and I am able to get the images in the document but cannot place them right. The image is placed at the center of the document and cropped on the right side.

Here is my latex file commands

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\begin{document}
My Dog Krishna
\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[scale=0.40]{C:/Documents and Settings/KRISHNA/My Documents/My Pictures/DSCN3118.JPG}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

when i do this I get only part of the figure. As you can see I have decreased the scale of the image to 40% to fit the page.

I have attached the zipped version of the pdf generated using MikteX (The pdf itself was larger than 256kb so cant attach it as it is)

Also the document shows the location of the image. how do i get rid of that.

what am I doing wrong?

[localghost]

Avoid blank spaces in both the name and the path of file. You can omit the pdftex driver option for the graphicx package (not related to the problem).


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[rajaijah]

Avoid blank spaces in both the name and the path of file. You can omit the pdftex driver option for the graphicx package (not related to the problem).


Best regards
Thorsten¹

I tried avoiding the blank spaces in the file path. i just changed the path from
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{C:/Documents and Settings/KRISHNA/My Documents/My Pictures/krishna/Krishna.JPG}

to

\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{C:/DocumentsandSettings/KRISHNA/MyDocuments/MyPictures/krishna/Krishna.JPG}

and now latex is not recognizing the location of the file. Is there a way to do it.

[localghost]

With "avoid blank spaces" I didn't mean "delete blank spaces" in the name and the path of a file. You have to choose a path the doesn't contain any blank spaces. Just deleting them in the argument makes no sense. The best is to put the graphics files in a subdirectory of your source files.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi rajaijah,

I just want to annotate you may use \centering inside the figure environment instead of \begin{center} ... \end{center}. The latter may cause unwanted vertical space before and after.

Btw. you can read in the graphicx manual about inclusion of images.

Stefan

[rajaijah]

Hi rajaijah,

I just want to annotate you may use \centering inside the figure environment instead of \begin{center} ... \end{center}. The latter may cause unwanted vertical space before and after.

Btw. you can read in the graphicx manual about inclusion of images.

Stefan

stefan

the pdf file abt graphics solved my problem. I needed to include
\graphicspath
and specify the location in preamble

[localghost]

the pdf file abt graphics solved my problem. I needed to include
\graphicspath
and specify the location in preamble

Why this command should not be used can be read in l2tabu.