Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Date: 2002-09-23 07:55:03 PST

> I have included my grafics with the following:
>
> \usepackage{graphicx}
>
> \DeclareGraphicsRule {.tif}{.bmp}{}{}
>
>
> \begin{figure}[h]
>
> \begin{center}
>
> \includegraphics[width=6cm,heigh=6cm]{bilder/per_beanspr_1.bmp}
>
> \caption[GrenzSpg]{Beanspruchungsbereiche in Abha"ngigkeit von R}
>
> \end{center}
>
> \end{figure}
>
> Everything went good, but if i exchange my includegraphics with the
> following:
>
> \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{bilder/per_beanspr_1.bmp}
>
> i get the error:
>
> ! LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in bilder/per_beanspr_1.bmp
> (no size specifed).

LaTeX cannot determine the size of the graphic in bilder/per_beanspr_1.bmp because you did not specify the size fully (the height is missing). LaTeX needs to know how much space to reserve for the graphic, and it can't read in .bmp files itself in order to find out.

Read grfguide. You might use an externally generated .bb file if appropriate.

David Kastrup