Document Classes ⇒ Beamer: Included Figure Randomly Rotates Page to Portrait

[krinkov]

I am creating a presentation in Beamer on a Mac using Mactex and Texshop. Both are up to date.

I am attempting to include a figure generated in another program. Sometimes, beamer randomly rotates an entire page to portrait when I attempt to do so. Evidently, whether it does so (or not) is determined by the attributes of the .eps file I am including. The really strange thing is that the size of the y-axis in the figure matters. As such, it may be a problem with the figure itself... I'm not sure. I have constructed a minimal example here below. I have also attached the files since they seem relevant.

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\documentclass{beamer}
\mode<presentation>

% Packages stuff:
\usepackage{graphics}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
    \frametitle{Landscape?}
    
    \begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics{age_earnings_prof2.eps}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
    \frametitle{Why in Portrait?}
    
    \begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics{age_earnings_prof.eps}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

\end{frame}


\end{document}

[man2011]

why do not you convert the picture to be .jpg? it is better if you do so, then you can control of the appearance of the picture...

you can take a screen shot to get the picture if you do not find a program to convert the extension

on imac you can click on fn+cmd+4 and then you can select the the picture and the boundary of it...

[man2011]

I converted the two pictures for you... the quality of the picture I think is the same and they seem to be okay to me... so deal with them as jpg pictures


see the attached

good luck

[krinkov]

Thanks for the suggestion, but I was hoping for something more automated. I frequently change these graphs, so it would be difficult to convert them manually to .jpg each time.

I guess I don't even understand the problem.. are the eps files "wrong" somehow? Or is this an anomalous Beamer behavior?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi krinkow,

welcome to the board!
EPS is not wrong. However, pdfLaTeX, which supports JPEG, PNG and PDF, is more modern and has some advantages. You could use pdfLaTeX and insert EPS figures on the fly using the epstopdf package.

Btw. our forum provides a code environment. When posting or editing, you can click the Code button above the edit field to format LaTeX code, I just did that for you above.

Stefan

[alan_ajac]

Hi, there. I had the same problem, and tried to use the pgf package to solve it. Found a way to do it, but it don't work due to a ghostscript error.
I tried the following:

\usepackage{pgf,pgfarrows,pgfnodes,pgfautomata,pgfheaps,pgfshade}

\begin{frame}
\pgfdeclareimage[height=7.5cm]{figure}{location/figure}
\begin{pgfrotateby}{\pgfdegree{90}}\pgfbox[left,left]{\pgfuseimage{figure}}
\end{pgfrotateby}}}
\end{frame}

The ghostscript error was the following:
GPL Ghostscript 9.01: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

Hope, we find a true solution without the need to convert the file format every time.
Thanks,
Alan

[salehin]

Hello,

You could try using epstopdf package to convert your EPS to PDF. It will then be inserted in your final PDF automatically during final compilation. See the attached pdf.

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\usepackage{epstopdf}

PS: Complied using MiKTeX 2.9 and Windows 7 (Ultimate, 32 bit)