Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Figures not inserted with pdflatex; works fine with latex

[BudBoman]

First, I'm new to the LaTeX Community and this is my first post. Please let me know if I'm doing it wrong, or just impolitely. I don't intend to.

Second, I've been using LaTeX for many years, but I only learn the minimum necessary to accomplish the the task at hand so I'm probably best treated as a novice.

I'm using MikTeX on a Windows 7 computer. In the directory I'm working in are three files: "dum.tex" (the MWE -- see below), "T.eps" and "T.pdf." Both of these last two contain the same image.

When I compile the following using "latex dum.tex" it works fine. T.eps is found and I can view it using yap.

When I try "pdflatex dum.tex" I get no errors and the pdf file is created but there is nothing in it when I try to view it with Adobe Reader.

Here is the relevant part of the log file:

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<T.pdf, id=1, 147.4308pt x 190.7928pt>
File: T.pdf Graphic file (type pdf)
 <use T.pdf>
Package pdftex.def Info: T.pdf used on input line 5.
(pdftex.def)             Requested size: 147.43044pt x 190.79231pt.
 [1{C:/Users/ecb5/AppData/Local/MiKTeX/2.9/pdftex/config/pdftex.map}

and here is the MWE:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}
\includegraphics{T}
\end{document}

I'm hoping this is easily fixed by filling the gaping hole in my knowledge base, but I'll gratefully accept any help I can get.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Welcome to the forum!

pdfLaTeX doesn't directly support EPS files, it can only include PDF, JPG and PNG files.

There's a package which can do conversion on-the-fly. Try in your preamble:

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\usepackage{epstopdf}

If it doesn't work, you may have to enable the shell-escape feature.

Stefan

[BudBoman]

Thank you, Stephan_K.

I should have mentioned that it compiles without error either way and, as you can see in the snippet of the log file that I posted, when I run "pdflatex dum.tex" the compiler is finding the .pdf file in the directory just fine. But it isn't visible in dum.pdf compilation.

I tried \usepackage{epstopdf} per your suggestion. No effect.

I'm very puzzled.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Ok, I read EPS and pdflatex and stopped thinking further.

Perhaps post your T.pdf file here, as attachment, so we can test it.

Stefan

[BudBoman]

Sure. Here it is.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

When I opened the file, my Adobe Reader crashed then I opened again, both with the Adobe Reader and the Mac OS X preview program, they showed an empty page. I guess the PDF file is broken, that would explain why it doesn't show up in your TeX output as well.

What do you see if you open T.pdf with the Adobe Reader?

Perhaps also attach T.eps so we can see the original file.

Stefan

[BudBoman]

Ack! Sorry. The problem is elsewhere. It seems a bunch of my .pdf files are now suddenly empty. Never occurred to me to check that cuz I've been using them for, literally, years.

When I used a pdf that actually had an image in it, pdflatex worked as expected. Sorry to take up your time with this.

One final question: Can I make this thread go away and if so, how? I'd rather not waste anyone else's time with my stupidity.

Thank you for your attempts to help. I'll try to make my next post a little less silly.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

No problem, my time was ok I'm glad to help.

I marked the thread as solved, that's enough. Still somebody may arrive here via google, either being reminded to check the PDF content or invited to post a new question.

Best regards,

Stefan