Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ No Graphics Extension recognized

[nicoo]

Hello all!

I am using PDFLaTeX to compile a document. Until now it was working fine, but suddenly it stopped recognizing any graphics extension.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document} 
  \begin{figure}[h]
    \includegraphics[width=0.3\linewidth]{anusha.jpg }  
  \end{figure}
\end{document}

and I get this error:

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! LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .jpg .

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.192 ...raphics[width=0.3\linewidth]{anusha.jpg }
                                                  
? 

And this for whatever extension .jpg,.pdf,.eps etc.

What is happening?

Thank you for your attention!

[Johannes_B]

A wild guess would be that you are now compiling with latex instead of pdflatex. Additionally, you should leave out the file extension. The white space at the end of the file name could be something that confuses LaTeX as well. EDIT: It's definitely the extra space in the MWE above.

Best regards
Johannes

[localghost]

Johannes' assumption is correct. And the error message also indicates the reason.

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! LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .jpg .

Note the blank space after the suffix. The compiler searches for a file with the suffix ".jpg␣". And as Johannes already mentioned, you can drop suffixes completely. The graphicx package will search for acceptable file formats on its own.

By the way, with LaTeX almost nothing happens suddenly. Most problems are caused due to user action.


Thorsten

[nicoo]

Wow, I can't believe a simple extra space can mess everything up! Anyway, I hope this post will help other people not going through this trouble. Thank you for the quick response!