Re: [O] Problem with exporting image to PDF

[suvayu ali]

Hi Toby, John and Nick,

Its early in the morning for me, so whatever follows could simply be
wrong. :-p

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:59 AM, Nick Dokos <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thomas S. Dye <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Toby <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > I have tried different classes (article and koma-article) such as:
>> > #+LaTeX_CLASS: koma-article
>> > #+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [a4paper]
>> >

I believe this might be your problem. Org recognises only a few document
classes by default. You need to add to the org-export-latex-classes
variable to support other classes. Presently the supported classes are:
article, report, book and beamer.

>>
>> Out of the box, Org-mode uses pdflatex to create pdf from LaTeX source
>> (although this can be modified).  Pdflatex does not accept eps files for
>> graphic input, so this might have been part of your problem.  It does
>> accept png files, though, so it appears something else might be going
>> on.
>>
>
> It's probably the case that even though there is a processing error with
> .eps files, in some circumstances, a PDF file *is* produced, but it's
> just a skeleton and therefore does not properly render even the "good"
> image.  If the OP deletes the .eps lines, the .png one will probably
> work.
>

Actually for TeXLive 2010 and above all included eps files are converted
to pdf (with eps2pdf I think) and included. I am not sure if this is the
case for earlier versions though.

HTH

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Suvayu

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