Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Inclusion of PNG Image fails

[sjkiss]

Hi,

I'm using Texshop 2.47 on a Mac OS 10.6.8 and I cannot, for the life of me get it to properly include the graphic that is attached. In the preferences, I've set 'Default Script' to pdfTeX because I've read somewhere that latex does not recognize PNG files while pdfLaTeX does. I'm not sure if that makes a difference or not.

I'm getting this error message:

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 pdftex.def Error: PDF mode expected, but DVI mode detected!
(pdftex.def)                If you are using `latex', then call `pdflatex'.
(pdftex.def)                Otherwise check and correct the driver options.
(pdftex.def)                Error recovery by switching to PDF mode.

See the pdftex.def package documentation for explanation.

The code below is working in that I get the document I'm supposed to, but I'd like to address this error message.

Grateful for any suggestions.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\begin{document}
test

\begin{figure}
\center
\includegraphics{~/directory/search_details.png}
\caption{This shows the picture}
\label{stuff}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

[localghost]

What does the log file say other than the warning you mentioned? Could be helpful to attach it here.

By the way, driver options like pdftex are not necessary at all. And its preferable to abstain from special characters like underscores in file names.


Thorsten