Re: MikTeX2.9 and eps

On 17/12/2014 11:02, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> Am Wed, 17 Dec 2014 06:33:18 +0100 schrieb Ian CAMPBELL:
>
>
>> So I downloaded the latest version from scratch. On the way I
>> encountered "Windows API error 5" but Windows itself
>> spontaneously proposed getting administrator permission and this
>> worked. (Would it not be helpful to put a warning into the
>> download tutorial about this, as it seems to be a necessary step
>> ?).
> It is not necessary - unless you try to install miktex in a place
> where only the admin has writing rights like C:\program files.
       I followed the tutorial where the example given was miktex 
installed in program files (x86)
>> Now dvi compiles, with the eps figure, whatever WinEdit option I
>> take (Texify, latex or whatever). "dvi to pdf" then compiles to
>> pdf but with a blank instead of the figure.
> "dvi to pdf" is probably latex + dvipdfm(x), in this case you must
> load graphicx with the correct driver information:
>
> \usepackage[dvipdfmx]{graphicx}
    Thank you for your advice.
>> However the direct "PDF Texify" option  leads to a pdf output WITH the
>> figure.
> In this case epstopdf will convert the eps to pdf. You probably have
> now an "converted-to-pdf" file in your folder.
          Yes indeed.

      Thank you for your help.                             Ian
>
>

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