Re: [MiKTeX] eps problems in Yap

[Hans F. N. <ha...@mi...>]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Burbidge,Adam,LAUSANNE,NRC/FS wrote:

> Dear Miktex users,
>
> I have encountered a problem viewing eps files included in LaTeX documents
> in Yap since an automatic update made by our IT people to a new version of
> Ghostscript (7.03).  The problem seems to be related to the path and
> registry entries for Ghostscript, both of which are now non-standard and I
> cannot change.  When compiling with Latex the included objects produce
> underfilled box warnings, which seems to suggest that the eps cannot be
> decoded (presumably since MikTex doesn't find ghostscript).
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This is a wrong conclusion. LaTeX (TeX) doesn't use ghostscript - it only
parses the eps files to find the bounding box. Such warnings can normally
be ignored if the result looks OK.

> I really don't want to reinstall Miktex from scratch, so if
> anyone has any ideas then I'm all ears (I guess that I need to tell Miktex
> where ghostscipt lives, but I can't find a configuration file to hack).

Lucky you - just update MiKTeX and your problems will be solved since
MiKTeX now include it's own version (8.01) of ghostscript.

Regards,
Hans