[texhax] includegraphics with spaces in the file path?

Peter Davis pfd at pfdstudio.com
Thu Dec 9 17:02:43 CET 2010


On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de> wrote:

> Am Thu, 9 Dec 2010 10:26:29 -0500 schrieb Peter Davis:
>
> > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:02 AM, William Adams <will.adams at frycomm.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> On Dec 9, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Peter Davis wrote:
> >>
> >>> Will this work with \includegraphics in XeTeX, or should I be using
> >> \XeTeXpicfile and \XeTeXpdffile ?
> >>
> >> grffile extends \includegraphics so use that.
> >>
> >>
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >>> (The .pdf file contains .dtx file attachted. 'tex grffile.dtx'
> >>> extracts the package.)
> >>>
> >>> I'm afraid I don't understand.  How do I refer to the PDF file in this
> >> command?
> >>
> >> Downlad the .pdf
> >>
> >> Open it in Adobe Acrobat (a recent version)
> >>
> >> Click on the paper clip icon (usually in the bottom-left corner)
> >>
> >> Drag grffile.dtx to a convenient location and process it as you would
> any
> >> .dtx
> >>
> >
> >
> > Thank you!  Is there some canonical location where this is supposed to
> go?
> >  I'm running MiKTeX 2.9.  I put the file in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
> > 2.9\source\latex\grffile\grffile.dtx.  However, when I try to tex it, as
> > Heiko suggested, I get:
> >
> >
> > Generating file(s) grffile.ins grffile.drv grffile.sty grffile-test1.tex
> > ! Cannot find file grffile.dtx.
>
> Process the dtx in some temporary folder outside miktex. Miktex
> blocks pdflatex from finding files in roots.
>
>
Argh!

Ok, I was able to do this in the local directory where my .tex files are,
and it worked!  Thank you, Heiko and other who helped!  This is a great
relief.

-pd
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