Re: Another powerdot problem ...

"Schneider, Thomas \(NIH/NCI\) \[E\] via texhax" <[email protected]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 02:53:54 +0000

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Rolf:

> I am trying to include a figure (from a *.pdf file) in a powerdot slide.
> I get an error:
> > LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in keg.pdf (no
> > BoundingBox).

Convert the pdf image to a postscript image:

35% pdf2ps keg.pdf
36% head keg.ps
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%Invocation: path/gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -P- -dSAFER -sDEVICE=ps2write -sOutputFile=? ? ? ? -f ?
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 504 432
%%HiResBoundingBox: 0 0 504.00 432.00
%%Creator: GPL Ghostscript 10030 (ps2write)
%%LanguageLevel: 2
%%CreationDate: D:20241114214454-05'00'
%%Pages: 1
%%EndComments
%%BeginProlog
37% 

Ok, now we have keg.ps.

Note the BoundingBox!!!

Now replace keg.pdf with keg.ps in the demo.tex.

38% cat demo.tex | sed 's/keg.pdf/keg.ps/' > fixeddemo.tex

45% diff demo.tex fixeddemo.tex 
20c20
< \includegraphics[width=10cm]{keg.pdf}
---
> \includegraphics[width=10cm]{keg.ps}
46% 

OK!  Try it:

latex fixeddemo.tex
latex fixeddemo.tex
dvips fixeddemo
open fixeddemo.ps

The display is pretty bad but it worked.

BOTTOM LINE:

Normal LaTeX takes postscript (ps) not PDF.
I make all my images into ps.
There is a version of LaTeX that takes PDF but then
I think EVERYTHING has to be PDF maybe.

Tom

  Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
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  National Institutes of Health
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  Center for Cancer Research
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