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dccpurple · Post by **dccpurple** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:39 am

Hi,

When I was trying to inculde a *.eps file using Latex=>PDF, the adobe acrobat produce a warning saying that

"there was an error opening the document. the file is damaged and could not be repaired." I could not see any output PDF file.

The attahed is the logfile. My code is as followed

\begin{figure}[ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=6.0in]{linear.eps}
\caption{Amplitude}
\label{fig:mass_same_amplitude}
\end{figure}

Could anyone please kindly help me?

Thanks a lot,

Jane

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Post by **localghost** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:47 am

This fault is done very often, as a search in the forum would reveal. You cannot compile with pdflatex when trying to include EPS files. Convert them with the epstopdf or "on the fly" with epstopdf package. If the origin of the files is different from EPS (such as JPG or PNG), keep them in that format. Omit the suffix *.eps from the files. The compiler will search the right file format if provided.

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dccpurple · Post by **dccpurple** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:57 am

Hi Thorsten

Thanks a lot for your reply.

I am so sorry that I am new to the Latex and TexnicCenter, and I also did see some solusion talking about "convert them with the epstopdf or 'on the fly' with epstopdf package". But I don't know how to do this, so could you kindly explain this in detail please?

Thanks again,
Jane

Post by **localghost** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:06 am

As I noticed after a closer look at the log file you are already using the epstopdf package. But you have not enabled the shell escape option, which is set on MiKTeX with --enable-write18. Go to the dialogue window to define the build profiles (Alt+F7) in TeXnicCenter and adapt the profiles by adding this switch in the command line arguments for the compiler. You can see some explaining screenshots in another topic [1]. At the moment I'm not running Windows, but in case of further difficulties I will generate some additional screenshots later.

[1] LaTeX => PS => PDF

dccpurple · Post by **dccpurple** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:43 am

localghost wrote:As I noticed after a closer look at the log file you are already using the epstopdf package. But you have not enabled the shell escape option, which is set on MiKTeX with --enable-write18. Go to the dialogue window to define the build profiles (Alt+F7) in TeXnicCenter and adapt the profiles by adding this switch in the command line arguments for the compiler. You can see some explaining screenshots in another topic [1]. At the moment I'm not running Windows, but in case of further difficulties I will generate some additional screenshots later.

[1] LaTeX => PS => PDF

It DOES work when I enabled the option, thanks a lot!!

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