Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Unknown Graphics Extension for EPS File

[jerryf]

I get this error message when trying to include an EPS graphics.

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LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .eps.

This is a sample document.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphics}

\begin{document}
  \includegraphics{sears1a.eps}
\end{document}

What can I do?

[jerryf]

I found the answer using a search engine.

It seems you're using graphics in the EPD format. A relatively easy way of solving this problem is loading \usepackage{epstopdf} in your preamble and compiling with pdfLaTeX as usual. This will convert any EPS graphics to PDF first, you'll see the actual PDF files in your directory.

An it worked!

[kaiserkarl13]

Are you using LaTeX or PDFLaTeX? LaTeX should accept either PS or EPS files (and you can omit the extension, by the way), but PDFLaTeX accepts PDF, JPG, PNG, and possibly one other I'm forgetting (I think JPEG may be acceptable, too).

[Johannes_B]

That is, latex compiles to DVI, which you can convert afterwards to PS and PDF. pdflatex directly compiles to a PDF, no need for converting anymore.

Recent LaTeX distributions (like TeX Live or MiKTeX) come with scripts to convert EPS files to PDF (epstopdf) during compilation. TeX Live should do this on the fly out of the box. It is worth mentioned, that you need -shell-escape enabled.

Which distribution are you using?

Best regards
Johannes

[joxaal]

I'm having a similar problem, and although adding the

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\usepackag{epstopdf}

line fixed it, I would like some clarification. I'm new to Latex, and I'm using Tex Studio 4.8.5, and I downloaded an example IEEE paper here http://www.findthatzip-file.com/search- ... ex.tar.htm

This example worked right off the bat without adding the extra package. It has a \usepackage{epsfig}, which may do something similar to epstopdf. After fiddling with the paper and settings, I started getting this error. I'm just confused because I did not mess with the compiler and the file used to work without adding the new epstopdf package.