Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Date: 2000-11-28 08:40:58 PST

> I have problems inserting images with pdfLaTeX, which I really do not
> understand. I've tried all of gif, tif and bmp formats and always get
> the same error message. I understand that pdfLaTeX can't use bitmap
> files, but the same problem occur with the other formats. on the other
> hand, LaTeX works fine only with the bmp format.
>
> I use the following syntax:
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{graphicx}
>
> \DeclareGraphicsRule{.bmp}{bmp}{}{}
> \DeclareGraphicsRule{.tif}{tif}{}{}
> \DeclareGraphicsRule{.gif}{gif}{}{}
>
> \begin{document}
> %\includegraphics[width=1in,height=.5in]{logoubs.bmp}
> \includegraphics[width=1in,height=.5in]{emu.gif}
> %\includegraphics[width=1in,height=.5in]{1_euro.tif}
> \end{document}
>
> With LaTeX, I get the following error message:
>
> ! LaTeX Error: Can not include graphics of type: gif.
>
> While all graphics formats give me the following error with pdfLaTeX:
>
> ! Package graphics Error: Division by 0.
>
> See the graphics package documentation for explanation.
> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>  ...
>
> l.11 ...cs[width=1in,height=.5in]{emu.gif}

Maybe I miss the true meaning of your question. When you pdfLaTeX, all figures must be *.pdf. Otherwise, pdf conversion performs o.k., but figures will be missing.

I think ghostview allows the conversion, although it is not very nice. Acrobat Distiller makes a better job, but you must pay for it.

Emili