General ⇒ Images do not display in pdf document

[viv]

I am running TeXnicCenter 1beta 7.5 with MiKTeX 2.7 on Vista Business. My document displays correctly in the Yap viewer but when I use the PDF output profile the images show as white spaces. The images are either Encapsulated PostScript files added using \includegraphics{./images/027a.eps} or I use \begin{picture}...

There are no Errors or Warnings but 30 bad boxes, none of which relate to sections containing my images.

Can anyone suggest where the problem is?

Thanks.

[localghost]

You can't use EPS images when compiling with pdflatex. Convert them with [url=http://http:ctan.org/pkg/epstopdf]epstopdf[/url] to PDF on the command prompt or "on the fly" with the [url=http://http:ctan.org/pkg/epstopdf-pkg]epstopdf[/url] package. Search the forum for graphics formats in dependency on the used compiler and you will get more information about that.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[viv]

Thanks for the very swift reply, Thorsten, I will try that, but as I also have a problem with pictures generated with \begin{picture} I assume that epstopdf will not solve that. Is that correct.

Viv

[localghost]

[...] but as I also have a problem with pictures generated with \begin{picture} I assume that epstopdf will not solve that. [...]

This is another topic which you also can ask questions about. But before using the antique picture environment, you should take a look at the very powerful pgf/TikZ or PSTricks package. The latter one relies on postscript specials and cannot be used with pdflatex. The picture environment can be extended in its capabilities by pict2e, but nevertheless remains very limited.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Viv,

pictures by \begin{picture} ... \end{picture} will work with latex and pdflatex.
Or do you mean pspicture?

Stefan

[viv]

Hi Viv,

pictures by \begin{picture} ... \end{picture} will work with latex and pdflatex.
Or do you mean pspicture?

Stefan

Thanks, I do mean \begin{picture} ... \end{picture} and it looks as if it is one use of this which produces a picture which does not display properly, while all the rest do. I should be able to solve this with a little thought.

Viv