[tex-live] epstopdf: Image inclusion failed

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Wed Dec 20 20:01:42 CET 2006


On 12/19/06, Steven Woody <narkewoody at gmail.com> wrote:

> i am on Cygwin and i am using dvipdfm to generate pdf documents with
> eps images.  in the config of dvipdfm, i used the following line,
>
> D "epstopdf --outfile=%o --nocompress %i"
>
> but the running of dvipdfm always results in an error, e.g,
>
> contract.dvi -> contract.pdf
> [1(./gridpath.1<PS>The system cannot find the path specified.
>
> Conversion via ->epstopdf --outfile=\s3o0. --nocompress ./gridpath.1<- failed
> )
> pdf: image inclusion failed for (gridpath.1).
> ]
> 141204 bytes written
>
> and, in my Cygwin system, the command 'which epstopdf' gives,
> /c/TeXLive2005/bin/win32/epstopdf,
> and, 'which gswin32c' gives,
> /c/TeXLive2005/bin/win32/gswin32c
>
>
> can anyone please help me to get over this problem.

Time is running short, so I can't really investigate, but my guess is
that you are using metapost graphics (suggested by the .1 extension)
and gswin32c doesn't know about the fonts.  Pdflatex can use metapost
files directly.

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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia


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