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Philosophaie
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Insert a jpg image onto LaTeX.

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I am trying to insert a jpg image onto LaTeX.

The error code says: "Undefined Control Sequence"

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Code, edit and compile here:
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[scale=0.8]{C:\Users\User\Documents\Conic_Section.jpg}
\caption{Conic Section}
\end{center}
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Re: Insert a jpg image onto LaTeX.

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Use forward slashes. But better not to handle absolute paths. Put the images somewhere LaTeX can find them (or make LaTeX find them).
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Philosophaie
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Insert a jpg image onto LaTeX.

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Added:

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\usepackage{graphics}
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but new error
! File ended while scanning use of \Gin@iii.
and it says it is missing a "}" when before I added "\usepackage{graphics}" it was working fine.
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Johannes_B
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Insert a jpg image onto LaTeX.

Post by Johannes_B »

You need to load package graphicx instead of graphics.

But this has nothing to do with the incompatible path and is a new problem.


Another issue: You cannot use \caption inside of center. It will raise another error.
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Insert a jpg image onto LaTeX.

Post by cgnieder »

This should work (untested as I neither have the graphic file nor a Windows OS):

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Code, edit and compile here:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{caption} % for \captionof
% or:
% \usepackage{captionof}
% or a KOMA-Script class...
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[scale=0.8]{C:/Users/User/Documents/Conic_Section.jpg}
\captionof{figure}{Conic Section}
\end{center}
\end{document}
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