Math & Science ⇒ chemstyle | Compound Numbering in Schemes

[Rambuch]

Hello everyone,

I've been trying to get chemstyle to number my compounds for quite some time without any luck. I tried a lot of different solutions without luck. The problem is that whenever I compile I get a nice pdf but without any autonumbering only the labels, "TMP", I gave the compounds will appear. I used chemdraw to create the EPS with the TMP labels.

I can see that it generates a PDF picture called ...-eps-converted-to.pdf with the TMP as labels. I also tried to enable write18, compile with "LaTeX => PDF" and "LaTeX => PS => PDF" profiles.

The most weird thing is that I send a MWE to a friend who didn't have any problems making the labels work. After discovering this I also updated my TeXnicCenter and MiKTeX to the latest version, still with no luck.

MWE looks as follows, a version is also attached along with the EPS file and the PDF I get after compiling.

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\documentclass[english,12pt,a4paper,twoside]{report}
\usepackage{graphicx,epstopdf,psfrag,chemstyle}
%\usepackage[runs=2]{auto-pst-pdf}

\begin{document}

\begin{scheme}[ht]
\centering
\schemeref{afctxx}
\schemeref{iafct}
\schemeref{dafct} 
\includegraphics{afct} 
\caption{General AFCT process}
\label{sch:afct-process}
\end{scheme}

\end{document}

In advance thanks for any help.


Cheers
Rasmus

[cgnieder]

It seems you have to leave out the epstopdf package. The \psfrag command used by chemscheme replaces the TMP string in the eps file.

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\documentclass[english,12pt,a4paper,twoside]{report}
\usepackage{chemstyle}
% \usepackage{epstopdf} doesn't work when used
\usepackage[runs=2]{auto-pst-pdf}
\begin{document}

\begin{scheme}[ht]
\centering
\schemeref{afctxx}
\schemeref{iafct}
\schemeref{dafct}
\includegraphics[scale=.8]{AFCT.eps}
\caption{General AFCT process}
\label{sch:afct-process}
\end{scheme}

\end{document}

[Rambuch]

thanks for the quick reply.
If I do that with Latex=> pdf I'll get a error saying

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File ´MWE-pics.pdf´not found

and with the Latex=>ps=> pdf it won't show the picture but will come up with a square box saying MWE-pics.pdf instead of the picture .
I can see from a DVI file generated somewhere in the process that it tries to replace the TMP but they are not in the right place and it does not show on the pdf.

[cgnieder]

I can not reproduce that error but a similar one, if I rename the the picture. I have noticed though, that you called the picture "AFCT.eps" but had the line "\includegraphics{afct}" (with lowercase letters) in your example.
Also you need to run latex with shell-escape (or write18) enabled.

Is there a reason, why you're not using pdflatex, but latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf?

[Rambuch]

I tried to change to uppercase letters with no effect and I have write18 enabled in "command line arguments to pass to the compiler" by the following

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--enable-write18 -interaction=nonstopmode "%pm"

Normally I use pdflatex but since my friend got it to work with Latex=>ps=> pdf I have been trying with both output profiles whenever I change something.

[Rambuch]

I found the source of the problem which was the pdfcrop, so a solution is to use the following code to turn pdfcrop off

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\usepackage[crop={off},runs={2}]{auto-pst-pdf}

As far as I could tell it has something to do with a Perl script that is supposed to cut the white edges of the generated pdf.

[dave8927]

I am having a similar problem.

I am running pdflatex from the terminal as:

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pdflatex -shell-escape untitled.tex

Following the above - end up with a error message:

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! Package pdftex.def Error: File `untitled-pics.pdf' not found.

The resulting pdf displays a blank box with untitled-pics.pdf across it.

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\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{a4wide}
\usepackage[nodayofweek]{datetime}
\usepackage{parskip}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{amsmath, amsfonts, amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}
\usepackage[crop=off,runs=2]{auto-pst-pdf}
\usepackage{chemstyle}

\begin{document}

\section{section title here}

Refer to compounds \compound{cmpd_A} and \compound{cmpd_B}

\begin{scheme}
	\begin{center}
		\schemeref[TMP1]{cmpd_A}
		\schemeref[TMP2]{cmpd_B}
		\includegraphics{hexa.eps}
	\end{center}
\end{scheme}

\end{document}

Any help would be greatly appriciated.

Dave

[cgnieder]

Your example runs fine for me (TeX Live 2012 on a Linux system). What TeX distribution are you using?

[dave8927]

I'm using Tex Live 2012 on OS X. This http://tug.org/mactex/