[Tex/LaTex] Including PDF into pdflatex document

graphicspdftex

Trying to include a raster graphic into my document. From what I have read, EPS isn't supported with pdflatex, and pdf should be the prefered format for doing so. From what I understand, the following should work (complete example):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\includegraphics{chart.pdf}
\end{document}

But pdflatex gives me the following error:

LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .pdf.

Complete output is:

[root@trendline perfrep]# pdflatex example
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./example.tex
LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, lo
aded.
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/graphics.cfg)
(./pdftex.def))) (./example.aux)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/pdftexcmds.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/infwarerr.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifluatex.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ltxcmds.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifpdf.sty))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/oberdiek/epstopdf-base.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/oberdiek/grfext.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/kvdefinekeys.sty))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/oberdiek/kvoptions.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/kvsetkeys.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/etexcmds.sty)))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/epstopdf-sys.cfg))

! LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .pdf.

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Best Answer

The pdftex.def in the current directory is wrong (outdated, broken, not a graphics driver file at all, ...). Move the file out of the way and the correct file /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pdftex-def/pdftex.def should be found and used.

The supported bitmap image formats of pdfTeX in PDF mode are PNG, JPEG, and JBIG2. Of course, bitmaps in PDF also work.

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