Bug#259390: tetex-bin: Mistake in processing a filename
> <snip>
> In pdfLaTeX that default rule does not exist, as different kind of
> graphics can be feed to pdfTeX. (...) It would make sense to define a
> default rule for MetaPost-Files (.mps), cause they can be recognized,
> even if the extension is not .mps.
I would be too happy to only make .eps files, and be able to use them
with both latex and pdflatex; but pdflatex doesn't seem to eat .eps
files!
$ cat > a.tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\includegraphics{DATA/gfd.eps}
\end{document}
$ pdflatex a.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b (Web2C 7.4.5)
(./a.tex{/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg}
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n
ohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/graphics.cfg)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/pdftex.def)))
No file a.aux.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.tex
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/supp-mis.tex
loading : Context Support Macros / Missing
)
loading : Context Support Macros / PDF
)
! LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .eps.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
...
l.4 \includegraphics{DATA/gfd.eps}
> As I assume this to be a missing feature instead of a bug I'm setting
> the severity to wishlist. We (in the DBTS) probably won't fix it, so
> I tag it wontfix. We'll come back to it, if the described situation
> will change, but I have doubt that this will happen.
I would respectfully like to say that from an end-user perspective,
this is a horrible and incompetent bug. I am a geek and I'm perfectly
okay with the workarounds (I just switched from '.' to '_'). But to
tell a lay user that
\includegraphics{last.year.revenue.pdf}
will not work: it makes us look incompetent.
This aspect needs to be communicated to the developers.
--
Ajay Shah Consultant
ajayshah@mayin.org Department of Economic Affairs
http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah Ministry of Finance, New Delhi
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