Re: [AUCTeX] eps graphics empty with dvipdfmx

[Jan Menzel]

Hi Ikumi!
        Many thanks for your response!

On 23.08.2017 11:48, Ikumi Keita wrote:
> Hi Jan,
> 
>>>>>> Jan Menzel <address@hidden> writes:
>> Hi all!
>>      After our IT department recently upgraded my system to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
>> graphics preview stopped working. In order to get the new latex version
>> to compile my thesis I had to change "dvipdfm" to "dvipdfmx" in
>> \documentcalss. Now previews in general work well again, captions are
>> also correct, but my figures (all .eps) are just empty boxes. However,
>> the size of the boxes correspond to their bounding boxes. (I've checked
>> the .pngs that are generated for the preview as well.)
>>      The minimum example that replicates my problem is as follows:
> 
>> \documentclass[dvipdfmx]{book}
>> \usepackage{graphicx}
>> \begin{document}
>>   \begin{figure}[t]
>>     \centering
>>     \includegraphics[]{test.eps}
>>     \caption[]{Caption}
>>   \end{figure}
>> \end{document}
> 
> Why do you give dvipdfmx option to documentclass?  I suppose you are
> using pdflatex.  Then, there is no need for dvipdfmx, which is used for
> converting dvi file into pdf file.  I think that just deleting
> "[dvipdfmx]" would be sufficient.
> 
You are right. I'm converting to DVI first then to PS and PDF. This
works very well with dvipdfmx. Removing dvipdfmx the image is shown (in
preview) but collides with the caption.
        Any other ideas?

        Best regards
                Jan