Re: Another powerdot problem ...

On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 at 09:37, Philip Taylor <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> On 15/11/2024 08:52, David Carlisle wrote:
>
> > Executive summary: Create keg.ps rather than keg.pdf and then use
> "keg.ps" rathe in the call to \includegraphics
>
> The standard advice is just to use \includegraphics{keg} then each system
> will use the extension that it can support, .(e)ps with latex/dvips
> and .pdf with pdflatex.
>
> But would that have helped Rolf before he had created (on Thomas
> Schneider's advice) "keg.ps" from "keg.pdf" ?
>

Probably, yes.

As if you force latex to load foo.pdf it does what you ask, and  hopes it's
an EPS file despite the extension
so you get

! LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in foo.pdf (no BoundingBox).

whereas if you just use foo then it never even looks at the pdf file, and
you get

l.7 \includegraphics{foo}

?

! LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in foo.eps.bb (no
BoundingBox).


showing it tried looking for foo.eps (and foo.eps.bb) which might have been
a hint that EPS was required.




-- 
> *** Phil.*
>