Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ PDFLaTeX reports too many open Files

[atomchoco]

Hello,

to be able to produce a List of Figures, I enclosed most of the graphics in my document inside {figure} tags. I tried it on a few images first, and after seeing there were no errors, I proceeded to do it to the rest of the graphics.

When I finished, I compiled and I got the error

pdflatex: Too many open files

Now I'm not able to produce a PDF output. I made a backup of the previous version though but if I used that I might not be able to automatically produce a List of Figures.

I checked for solutions online and found one that says I should try to include

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\let\mypdfximage\pdfximage
\def\pdfximage{\immediate\mypdfximage}

before \documentclass, but still the problem persists.


Cheers,
Josh

[kaiserkarl13]

How many figures are we talking about here? It also makes a difference what OS you are using. DOS, for example, has a FILES environment variable (iirc; it has been a loooong time since I've messed around with it) that determines the maximum number of files that a program can open, and UNIX shells have the "ulimit -f" or "limit files" commands. If you're in DOS, type "echo %FILES%" and see what you get.

My suspicion is that you have something wrong with your markup, too, but without seeing it I can't be sure.

[eecs_ta]

Using \clearpage worked for me. Add it every n figures, where n might depend on how many floats pdfLaTeX or LaTeX can handle.