[ww-users] implicit figuretype

[Peter L. R. <pl...@st...>]

Hi, folks -- not sure if this is a bug, or me not knowing how something
works.

On our wiki, if a latex file includes a figure either with no file
extension, e.g.
 \includgraphics{figure}
or with a file extension that doesn't exist, like
 \includgraphics{figure.png}
then WW looks for the figure as a pdf.  So if figure.pdf exists, then
all is good; if we only have figure.eps then fails to compile.

(BTW, it would be nice if rather than failing to compile, it substituted
in an error message or something?)

This is strange, since looking at the page, and at the site makefiles,
it looks like the default figuretype is eps, and the default latex is
latex, not pdflatex, and I haven't changed it anywhere -- not in a
project makefile, a site makefile, in the source-file tag.

For an example, see
 http://ibis.ucdavis.edu/mw/index.php?title=DebugPage
 
Please advise?

--p