Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Bounding Box not found

[snowfrog]

Hi,

I have bought a new computer, I am running Ubuntu 11.10 and just installed latex on it with

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sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base

I have a *tex file I have run many times in the past on 2 different machines. When I run

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latex file.tex

I get the error message

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! LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in \unhbox\voidb@x \penalty \@M
 \ {}/img.eps (no BoundingBox).

However, when I look at the eps file I can see the line

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%%BoundingBox: 46 169 550 673

and I also know that the figure is fine because I the tex file has been compiled many times before.

Below is a MWE and I also attached the img file. I'm not sure how anyone can help as the MWE does work on another machine. Anyway, any advice welcome!

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}   % for figures
\begin{document}
\graphicspath{{~/Mypath/}}

\begin{figure}[!H]
\includegraphics[scale=0.8, angle= -90]{img.eps}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

you need to run LaTeX in DVI mode for eps support. If you run pdfLaTeX, you could use the epstopdf package which can do conversion on the fly.

Btw. installing LaTeX from the Ubuntu repositories is quick and easy, however be aware that you are using a version of 2009. I would install TeX Live 2011 from the TeX Live website and update to the most recent package versions. Actually, I'm currently using Ubuntu with TeX Live 2011.

Stefan

[snowfrog]

you need to run LaTeX in DVI mode for eps support

Aren't I running LaTeX in DVI mode if I compile my tex file with the command

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latex file.tex

?

The latex command should produce a dvi file and read the eps figures. I always ran this script with the

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latex

command before.

I've also added the epstopdf package, as you suggested, ran the tex file with pdflatex but I'm getting another error message

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! LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .eps.

so it doesn't appear to work either.

Any other suggestions...?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Perhaps post your .log files as attachments, for both cases, then we can know more about the situation.

Stefan

[snowfrog]

Perhaps post your .log files as attachments

Done. Hope this helps.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Perhaps there's really no bounding box ... could you post BentShrub.eps as attachment?

Stefan

[snowfrog]

Sorry, I should have sent the log file of the MWE, not my actual file, to keep things simple.
The log file of the MWE is now attached and the image used is the previous one that I have sent, img.eps.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Including this img.eps works for me with LaTeX, XeLaTeX and pdfLaTeX with epstopdf.

However, I think this is the problem in your case:

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\graphicspath{{~/Mypath/}}

That's because of the error message

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! LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in \unhbox\voidb@x \penalty \@M
 \ {}/MyPath/img.eps (no BoundingBox).

There you can see, the tilde ~ as special character, which is used for an unbreakable space in LaTeX, appears translated as \ {}.

Make it without the tilde character, for example

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\graphicspath{{/home/username/Mypath/}}

Stefan

[snowfrog]

Make it without the tilde character, for example

Bingo! That was the problem! Little annoying things in life....

Thank you very much Stefan_K!