dvipng "unable to load" .eps file (MiKTeX 2.7)

[Bernhard Hermann]

Hi all,

dvipng doesn't produce any output for included .eps files on my
installation.
C:\test>dvipng de.dvi
This is dvipng 1.9 Copyright 2002-2006 Jan-Ake Larsson
[1 <de.epsdvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, opaque image
inclusion
 dvipng warning: Unable to load de.eps, image will be left blank >]

If I include the file as PNG, it works.
"de.dvi" is the result of "latex de.tex" on an up-to-date MiKTeX 2.7
installation.

I have tried "\epsfig{file=de.eps,width=15cm}" as well as
"\includegraphics[bb = 0 0 598 362]{de.eps}" with identical results.

Output to PDF/DVI works, including the EPS graphic. I have tried
supplying the full path in the .tex-file.
Does anyone have an idea on what could be the problem here?

Side note - when I try to run under linux (openSUSE 10.3), I get:
This is dvipng 1.9 Copyright 2002-2006 Jan-Ake Larsson
ESP Ghostscript 8.15.3: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

The last few lines when I run it with -d9999999 are:
 <de.eps
  GS RENDER     ./de.eps -> png16m
  GS CALL:      gs -sDEVICE=png16m -r277x277 -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q
-sOutputFile=- -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -dSAFER -
  PS CODE:      <</PageSize[154 89]/PageOffset[0 0[1 1 dtransform
exch]{0 ge{neg}if exch}forall]>>setpagedevice
  PS DATA:      ...ESP Ghostscript 8.15.3: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

Unfortunately on the windows installation "dvipng" wasn't compiled with
DEBUG, so I can't provide that information.

best regards,

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[Alain Delmotte-3]

Hello!

For me with the following document I did get the picture.
I did also get it without the preview package and imbeded in some text.
But the picture (.png) didn't show the right margin, the picture was
truncated along the right side pf the text.
This also worked compiling to .ps or .pdf.

perhaps try not usinf the same name (de) for the tex file and the picture!!!

Yours

Alain Delmotte

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[esperanto,frenchb]{babel}

\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[active,tightpage]{preview}

\begin{document}

%Voici du texte pour encadrer la figure. Voici du
%texte pour encadrer la figure. Voici du texte pour
%encadrer la figure. Voici du texte pour encadrer
%la figure. Voici du texte pour encadrer la figure.
%Voici du texte pour encadrer la figure.

\begin{preview}
\includegraphics[scale=0.1]{coccinl2.eps}
\end{preview}

%Voici du texte pour encadrer la figure. Voici du
%texte pour encadrer la figure. Voici du texte pour
%encadrer la figure. Voici du texte pour encadrer
%la figure. Voici du texte pour encadrer la figure.
%Voici du texte pour encadrer la figure.

\end{document}


Bernhard Hermann a écrit :

> Hi all,
>
> dvipng doesn't produce any output for included .eps files on my
> installation.
> C:\test>dvipng de.dvi
> This is dvipng 1.9 Copyright 2002-2006 Jan-Ake Larsson
> [1 <de.epsdvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, opaque image
> inclusion
>  dvipng warning: Unable to load de.eps, image will be left blank >]
>
> If I include the file as PNG, it works.
> "de.dvi" is the result of "latex de.tex" on an up-to-date MiKTeX 2.7
> installation.
>
> I have tried "\epsfig{file=de.eps,width=15cm}" as well as
> "\includegraphics[bb = 0 0 598 362]{de.eps}" with identical results.
>
> Output to PDF/DVI works, including the EPS graphic. I have tried
> supplying the full path in the .tex-file.
> Does anyone have an idea on what could be the problem here?
>
> Side note - when I try to run under linux (openSUSE 10.3), I get:
> This is dvipng 1.9 Copyright 2002-2006 Jan-Ake Larsson
> ESP Ghostscript 8.15.3: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>
> The last few lines when I run it with -d9999999 are:
>  <de.eps
>   GS RENDER     ./de.eps -> png16m
>   GS CALL:      gs -sDEVICE=png16m -r277x277 -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q
> -sOutputFile=- -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -dSAFER -
>   PS CODE:      <</PageSize[154 89]/PageOffset[0 0[1 1 dtransform
> exch]{0 ge{neg}if exch}forall]>>setpagedevice
>   PS DATA:      ...ESP Ghostscript 8.15.3: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>
> Unfortunately on the windows installation "dvipng" wasn't compiled with
> DEBUG, so I can't provide that information.
>
> best regards,
>
>  

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[Bernhard Hermann]

Hi,

Thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately, changing the filename doesn't
make any difference.
Do you have any idea on what else I could try to single it out?

br,
hermann


Alain Delmotte wrote:

> Hello!
>
> For me with the following document I did get the picture.
> I did also get it without the preview package and imbeded in some text.
> But the picture (.png) didn't show the right margin, the picture was
> truncated along the right side pf the text.
> This also worked compiling to .ps or .pdf.
>
> perhaps try not usinf the same name (de) for the tex file and the picture!!!
>
> Yours
>
> Alain Delmotte
>
> \documentclass{article}
>
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
> \usepackage[esperanto,frenchb]{babel}
>
> \usepackage{lmodern}
> \usepackage{graphicx}
> \usepackage[active,tightpage]{preview}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> %Voici du texte pour encadrer la figure. Voici du
> %texte pour encadrer la figure. Voici du texte pour
> %encadrer la figure. Voici du texte pour encadrer
> %la figure. Voici du texte pour encadrer la figure.
> %Voici du texte pour encadrer la figure.
>
> \begin{preview}
> \includegraphics[scale=0.1]{coccinl2.eps}
> \end{preview}
>
> %Voici du texte pour encadrer la figure. Voici du
> %texte pour encadrer la figure. Voici du texte pour
> %encadrer la figure. Voici du texte pour encadrer
> %la figure. Voici du texte pour encadrer la figure.
> %Voici du texte pour encadrer la figure.
>
> \end{document}
>
>
> Bernhard Hermann a écrit :
>  
>> Hi all,
>>
>> dvipng doesn't produce any output for included .eps files on my
>> installation.
>> C:\test>dvipng de.dvi
>> This is dvipng 1.9 Copyright 2002-2006 Jan-Ake Larsson
>> [1 <de.epsdvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, opaque image
>> inclusion
>>  dvipng warning: Unable to load de.eps, image will be left blank >]
>>
>> If I include the file as PNG, it works.
>> "de.dvi" is the result of "latex de.tex" on an up-to-date MiKTeX 2.7
>> installation.
>>
>> I have tried "\epsfig{file=de.eps,width=15cm}" as well as
>> "\includegraphics[bb = 0 0 598 362]{de.eps}" with identical results.
>>
>> Output to PDF/DVI works, including the EPS graphic. I have tried
>> supplying the full path in the .tex-file.
>> Does anyone have an idea on what could be the problem here?
>>
>> Side note - when I try to run under linux (openSUSE 10.3), I get:
>> This is dvipng 1.9 Copyright 2002-2006 Jan-Ake Larsson
>> ESP Ghostscript 8.15.3: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>>
>> The last few lines when I run it with -d9999999 are:
>>  <de.eps
>>   GS RENDER     ./de.eps -> png16m
>>   GS CALL:      gs -sDEVICE=png16m -r277x277 -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q
>> -sOutputFile=- -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -dSAFER -
>>   PS CODE:      <</PageSize[154 89]/PageOffset[0 0[1 1 dtransform
>> exch]{0 ge{neg}if exch}forall]>>setpagedevice
>>   PS DATA:      ...ESP Ghostscript 8.15.3: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>>
>> Unfortunately on the windows installation "dvipng" wasn't compiled with
>> DEBUG, so I can't provide that information.
>>
>> best regards,
>>
>>  
>>    
>
>
>
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[Ulrike Fischer-2]

am Mittwoch, 18. Juni 2008 um 16:04 schrieb Bernhard Hermann:

> Hi all,

> dvipng doesn't produce any output for included .eps files on my
> installation.
C:\test>>dvipng de.dvi
> This is dvipng 1.9 Copyright 2002-2006 Jan-Ake Larsson
> [1 <de.epsdvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, opaque image
> inclusion
>  dvipng warning: Unable to load de.eps, image will be left blank >]

> If I include the file as PNG, it works.
> "de.dvi" is the result of "latex de.tex" on an up-to-date MiKTeX 2.7
> installation.

> I have tried "\epsfig{file=de.eps,width=15cm}" as well as
> "\includegraphics[bb = 0 0 598 362]{de.eps}" with identical results.

> Output to PDF/DVI works, including the EPS graphic. I have tried
> supplying the full path in the .tex-file.
> Does anyone have an idea on what could be the problem here?

> Side note - when I try to run under linux (openSUSE 10.3), I get:
> This is dvipng 1.9 Copyright 2002-2006 Jan-Ake Larsson
> ESP Ghostscript 8.15.3: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

> The last few lines when I run it with -d9999999 are:
>  <de.eps
>   GS RENDER     ./de.eps -> png16m
>   GS CALL:      gs -sDEVICE=png16m -r277x277 -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q
> -sOutputFile=- -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -dSAFER -
>   PS CODE:      <</PageSize[154 89]/PageOffset[0 0[1 1 dtransform
> exch]{0 ge{neg}if exch}forall]>>setpagedevice
>   PS DATA:      ...ESP Ghostscript 8.15.3: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

Sounds as if your eps is problematic. Is it a real eps-file? And does
it have some binary preview? I at least didn't have any problems with
the standard rose.eps and tiger.eps and this code

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\fbox{\includegraphics[width=5cm]{rose}}
\end{document}

and the calls dvipng and dvipng -T tight (miktex 2.7).



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[Bernhard Hermann]

Thank you for the suggestion, this indeed works (I used "transistor.eps"
in the doc/-directory of the MiKTeX 2.7 distribution).
Confusingly, the .eps-file has worked for a long time before (presumably
at least up until version 2.4).

Do you have any idea on why this may have regressed?


Ulrike Fischer wrote:

> am Mittwoch, 18. Juni 2008 um 16:04 schrieb Bernhard Hermann:
>
>  
>> Hi all,
>>    
>
>  
>> dvipng doesn't produce any output for included .eps files on my
>> installation.
>>    
> C:\test>>dvipng de.dvi
>  
>> This is dvipng 1.9 Copyright 2002-2006 Jan-Ake Larsson
>> [1 <de.epsdvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, opaque image
>> inclusion
>>  dvipng warning: Unable to load de.eps, image will be left blank >]
>>    
>
>  
>> If I include the file as PNG, it works.
>> "de.dvi" is the result of "latex de.tex" on an up-to-date MiKTeX 2.7
>> installation.
>>    
>
>  
>> I have tried "\epsfig{file=de.eps,width=15cm}" as well as
>> "\includegraphics[bb = 0 0 598 362]{de.eps}" with identical results.
>>    
>
>  
>> Output to PDF/DVI works, including the EPS graphic. I have tried
>> supplying the full path in the .tex-file.
>> Does anyone have an idea on what could be the problem here?
>>    
>
>  
>> Side note - when I try to run under linux (openSUSE 10.3), I get:
>> This is dvipng 1.9 Copyright 2002-2006 Jan-Ake Larsson
>> ESP Ghostscript 8.15.3: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>>    
>
>  
>> The last few lines when I run it with -d9999999 are:
>>  <de.eps
>>   GS RENDER     ./de.eps -> png16m
>>   GS CALL:      gs -sDEVICE=png16m -r277x277 -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q
>> -sOutputFile=- -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -dSAFER -
>>   PS CODE:      <</PageSize[154 89]/PageOffset[0 0[1 1 dtransform
>> exch]{0 ge{neg}if exch}forall]>>setpagedevice
>>   PS DATA:      ...ESP Ghostscript 8.15.3: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>>    
>
> Sounds as if your eps is problematic. Is it a real eps-file? And does
> it have some binary preview? I at least didn't have any problems with
> the standard rose.eps and tiger.eps and this code
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{graphicx}
> \pagestyle{empty}
> \begin{document}
> \fbox{\includegraphics[width=5cm]{rose}}
> \end{document}
>
> and the calls dvipng and dvipng -T tight (miktex 2.7).
>
>
>
>  

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[Ulrike Fischer-2]

am Freitag, 20. Juni 2008 um 10:04 schrieb Bernhard Hermann:

> Thank you for the suggestion, this indeed works (I used "transistor.eps"
> in the doc/-directory of the MiKTeX 2.7 distribution).

You mean, it works with another eps?

> Confusingly, the .eps-file has worked for a long time before (presumably
> at least up until version 2.4).

> Do you have any idea on why this may have regressed?

dvipng use ghostscript, and ghostscript versions changes. Also miktex
now has its own ghostscript. It is quote possible that this affect
conversions. And faulty eps have a tendency to work only sometimes.

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[Bernhard Hermann]

Ulrike Fischer wrote:
>
>> Thank you for the suggestion, this indeed works (I used "transistor.eps"
>> in the doc/-directory of the MiKTeX 2.7 distribution).
>>    
>
> You mean, it works with another eps?
>  

Yes

>  
>> Confusingly, the .eps-file has worked for a long time before (presumably
>> at least up until version 2.4).
>>    
>> Do you have any idea on why this may have regressed?
>>    
>
> dvipng use ghostscript, and ghostscript versions changes. Also miktex
> now has its own ghostscript. It is quote possible that this affect
> conversions. And faulty eps have a tendency to work only sometimes.
>
>  

Okay. I think we'll have to accept the situation as it is ;)
Thank you for your help!

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[George N. White III]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Bernhard Hermann <hermann@...> wrote:

> Thank you for the suggestion, this indeed works (I used "transistor.eps"
> in the doc/-directory of the MiKTeX 2.7 distribution).
> Confusingly, the .eps-file has worked for a long time before (presumably
> at least up until version 2.4).
>
> Do you have any idea on why this may have regressed?

Ghostscript has made some changes to more strictly enforce
PostScript standards.  If you are using an external font the
font may have changed.   There are many things you can do
to salvage your file:

0.  make sure you can view the file with ghostscript (e.g.,
using gsview)?  You may need to find different fonts, etc., or
even report a bug and wait for the fix to appear.

1.  get epstools (I use the version from OpenPKG.org because
I can have the same tools on multiple platforms -- there are also
are Windows versions).   Use it to check for problems in the
purported EPS, e.g., E?PS file.

2.  get epspdf and the utilities from xpdf (pdftops), widely available
on linux and also in a Win32 version.  You can convert the E?PS
to PDF and back to EPS, which often rescues E?PS files.

3.  get ps2edit (linux or Win32) and convert to an editable format
such as Adobe Illustrator.  There is an option to replace fonts with
outline paths, which is often helpful if the problem is related to
fonts.

4.  in some cases the simplest way out is to rasterize the E?PS file
file and save in an image format.  A dirty secret in the industry
is that sometimes you have to print a E?PS, scan it, and then
manually edit the scanned figure to get a version that typesets
properly.


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[Bernhard Hermann]

Thanks for all the information! I am sure most of it will even be
relevant to our particular problem situation.
We have since managed to export the .eps differently (on a Mac, to
"Generic EPS" instead of "MS-DOS EPS"), now it works again.

I consider this request "answered". Thanks to all who responded with
helpful suggestions!


George N. White III wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Bernhard Hermann <hermann@...> wrote:
>
>  
>> Thank you for the suggestion, this indeed works (I used "transistor.eps"
>> in the doc/-directory of the MiKTeX 2.7 distribution).
>> Confusingly, the .eps-file has worked for a long time before (presumably
>> at least up until version 2.4).
>>
>> Do you have any idea on why this may have regressed?
>>    
>
> Ghostscript has made some changes to more strictly enforce
> PostScript standards.  If you are using an external font the
> font may have changed.   There are many things you can do
> to salvage your file:
>
> 0.  make sure you can view the file with ghostscript (e.g.,
> using gsview)?  You may need to find different fonts, etc., or
> even report a bug and wait for the fix to appear.
>
> 1.  get epstools (I use the version from OpenPKG.org because
> I can have the same tools on multiple platforms -- there are also
> are Windows versions).   Use it to check for problems in the
> purported EPS, e.g., E?PS file.
>
> 2.  get epspdf and the utilities from xpdf (pdftops), widely available
> on linux and also in a Win32 version.  You can convert the E?PS
> to PDF and back to EPS, which often rescues E?PS files.
>
> 3.  get ps2edit (linux or Win32) and convert to an editable format
> such as Adobe Illustrator.  There is an option to replace fonts with
> outline paths, which is often helpful if the problem is related to
> fonts.
>
> 4.  in some cases the simplest way out is to rasterize the E?PS file
> file and save in an image format.  A dirty secret in the industry
> is that sometimes you have to print a E?PS, scan it, and then
> manually edit the scanned figure to get a version that typesets
> properly.
>
>
>  

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