Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ problem including eps files

[bamdad]

Hi guys im a new member, i just posted an introduction topic in the new members sections. i've been writing a paper using Elsevier's latex template which is a derivative of the article class. i am using textmate 5.7 with MacTex-2008 on Leopard. im having a hard time including .eps figures in my document. i think textmate is using pdflatex to compile my tex directly to pdf but this doesnt allow me to include .eps files. i am using the "graphicx" and "epstopdf" packages in the preamble but whenever i include a figure.eps file i get the error " fig.pdf" not found and i can only solve this by creating the .pdf file using some other software. i cant keep this up cause i have to include a large number of figures that are provided by Gnuplot in eps format. i tried using "pstricks" package but it only ouputs 2 pages of my article!? i just gave up on it since i didnt want any more trouble. can you guys help me out? i think i could solve this by telling textmate to tex ->dvi ->pdf my document but i have no idea how to do this.

thanks

[localghost]

You have to enable shell escape for your compiler. I'm not sure, but your LaTeX system should be based on Web2c. Thus you have to call the compiler as follows.

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pdflatex -shell-escape jobname.tex

Adapt the settings of your LaTeX IDE accordingly. To make sure which switch you have to give, look at the help function. Open a terminal (shell, command prompt) and type in the following.

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pdflatex -help

You should see a list of the possible options and find the above mentioned switch or something similar. If you are not sure, post this list and we will see.


Best regards
Thorsten