I am using TeXMaker 3.5 (same problems in TeXMaker 3.4.1) and MikTeX 2.9. My source is:
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[scale=1]{test.eps}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
But I always get:
Package pdftex.def Error: File `test-eps-converted-to.pdf' not found.
MikTeX is working! The picture also exists and using the command prompt:
G:\LaTeX\sandbox>G:/miktex/miktex/bin/epstopdf --outfile=G:\LaTeX\sandbox\test-eps-converted-to.pdf G:\LaTeX\sandbox\test.eps
produce the pdf from the eps-file. This is my configuration:
Tools\Latex="\"../miktex/miktex/bin/latex.exe\" -enable-write18
-interaction=nonstopmode %.tex" Tools\Dvi=../miktex/miktex/bin/yap.exe -1 -s @.tex %.dvi
Tools\Dvips=\"../miktex/miktex/bin/dvips.exe\" -o %.ps %.dvi
Tools\Ps=../gsview/GSviewPortable.exe %.ps
Tools\Ps2pdf=\"../miktex/miktex/bin/ps2pdf.exe\" %.ps
Tools\Makeindex=\"../miktex/miktex/bin/makeindex.exe\" %.idx
Tools\Bibtex=\"../miktex/miktex/bin/bibtex.exe\" %.aux
Tools\Pdflatex="\"../miktex/miktex/bin/pdflatex.exe\" -enable-write18
-interaction=nonstopmode %.tex" Tools\Pdf=../SumatraPDF/SumatraPDF.exe %.pdf -reuse-instance
-forward-search %.tex @ Tools\Dvipdf=\"../miktex/miktex/bin/dvipdfm.exe\" %.dvi
Tools\Metapost="\"../miktex/miktex/bin/mpost.exe\" --interaction
nonstopmode "
Tools\Ghostscript=\"../miktex/ghostscriptx/bin/gswin64c.exe\"
Tools\Asymptote=../Asymptote/asy.exe %.asy
Tools\Latexmk="\"G:/miktex/miktex/bin/latexmk.exe\" -e
\"$pdflatex=q/pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode/\" -pdf %.tex"
Tools\Sweave=../R/bin/R.exe CMD Sweave %.Rnw
Does anyone has an idea how to solve this problem? I have created my portable version here.
Thanks in advance. I tried all possible permutations of --enable-write18
, --shell-escape
, -enable-write18
,….
Best Answer
After (re-)installation of MiKTeX portable and some try&error I found out, that the real answer is … RTFM:
Excerpt from the
epstopdf
manual:So, you have the choice between following 3 possibilities:
To the call of
pdflatex
add the commandline switch--include-directory="G:\LaTeX\sandbox"
(Attention! No closing backslash here, or, if the path is without white space, leave out the double quote marks), but included inside of TeXMaker it’s not portable.Add the command
\graphicspath
to your TeX file. In a test I had to use slashes instead of the usually in Windows used backslashes. That’s also not portable, but you can easily change it, before you do a new compiling.What I would favour:Similar as I already pointed out in Using MikTex Portable, TexMaker, and Asymptote from a USB drive – edit the start file
miktex-portable.cmd
(make a safety copy first) and add the system variableTEXINPUTS
. Note: The way it’s shown here, it works only, if theTEXINPUTS
directory is on the same drive as the portable MiKTeX installation, and as far as I see, it’s the only portable way.Then you can (and should!) use the command line prompt, that you get with right click on the traybar icon. The command line compilation worked fine here in a test. Start TeXMaker from this command prompt or add a line
before the abovemiktex\bin\miktex-taskbar-icon.exe
or create an own startbatch file with the variableTEXINPUTS
.Remark: After I’ve done a test with TeXMaker portable (BTW: that’s actually not fully true!), that I had to download first, I must say, that obviously with TeXMaker this approach of point 3 didn’t work! Only with the
\graphicspath
version or, if the EPS file was in the same directory like the TEX file, I’ve got a result. (Remark 2: I used some example files of Ghostscript and the example folder as graphics path, everything was on the same drive.)I leave the not functioning point here, because wieschoo’s answer refers to it.