General ⇒ Graphics troubles

[Heather]

I have been having toubles with my LaTeX practice document, which just happens to be the first document I have ever tried to make.

At the top of the document I have:

\usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}

Then in the document I have:

\begin{figure}[hp]
\begin{center}
\scalebox{.7}{\includegraphics{phasefunction.eps}}
\end{center}
\caption{an included picture}

\end{figure}

The graphic is in the same folder as the .tex document. The caption is in the center of the page, but phasefunction.eps doesn't show up, I just get an area of white.

Any ideas?

Thank you

Heather

[localghost]

[...] The graphic is in the same folder as the .tex document. The caption is in the center of the page, but phasefunction.eps doesn't show up, I just get an area of white. [...]

You have to process the source with latex, not with pdflatex. There should be some messages of the compiler in the log file which may explain why the picture is not displayed. Finally, you should modify your code a little bit. The preamble is only to make this code compilable.

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf]{caption}
\usepackage[bindingoffset=0.5in,centering,includeheadfoot,margin=1in]{geometry}

\begin{document}
  \begin{figure}[!ht]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[scale=0.7]{phasefunction}
    \caption{an included picture}\label{fig:phasefunction}
  \end{figure}
\end{document}

Since you are a very beginner, you should take a look at lshort and l2tabu to avoid the most mistakes done by rookies. Information about the packages used in the code above is available on the servers of the CTAN.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[Heather]

Thank you. I will check out these links.