Inserting image in TeXworks

[Grant Ito]

Hi everyone.

I'm quite new to LaTeX. I'm using TeXworks v.0.4.4.r.1003, MiKTeX 2.9 in
WindowsXP.

I'm following Andrew Robersts' "Getting to Grips with LaTex" tutorial
(http://www.andy-roberts.net/writing/latex), specifically tutorial 5,
"Importing Images".

Here is my code:

\begin{figure}

\begin{center}

\caption{Grant Ito, 2006-08-01 (yikes!)}

\includegraphics[scale=0.75]{D:/My Documents2/My Pictures/dsc00254.jpg}

\end{center}

\end{figure}



I've successfully typset my sample document using the pdfLaTeX option (i.e.,
no errors or warnings reported), and everything looks great, except for some
reason I'm getting not only the image but also the filename (minus the drive
letter, which is odd) printed to the left of the image on the image's
baseline, causing the whole thing (filename and image together) to be
centered horizontally.

I would prefer not to have the filename displayed. Can someone please help
me out?

Thanks in advance,
Grant

[Robin Fairbairns]

"Grant Ito" <leath...@shaw.ca> writes:

> I'm quite new to LaTeX. I'm using TeXworks v.0.4.4.r.1003, MiKTeX 2.9 in
> WindowsXP.
>
> I'm following Andrew Robersts' "Getting to Grips with LaTex" tutorial
> (http://www.andy-roberts.net/writing/latex), specifically tutorial 5,
> "Importing Images".
>
> Here is my code:
> \begin{figure}
> \begin{center}

don't use center inside a figure (or table) environment; use, rather:

\centering

> \caption{Grant Ito, 2006-08-01 (yikes!)}
> \includegraphics[scale=0.75]{D:/My Documents2/My Pictures/dsc00254.jpg}
>
> \end{center}

delete that, as well as the \begin{center} above

> \end{figure}
>
> I've successfully typset my sample document using the pdfLaTeX option (i.e.,
> no errors or warnings reported), and everything looks great, except for some
> reason I'm getting not only the image but also the filename (minus the drive
> letter, which is odd) printed to the left of the image on the image's
> baseline, causing the whole thing (filename and image together) to be
> centered horizontally.
>
> I would prefer not to have the filename displayed. Can someone please help
> me out?

it's the spaces in the file names; (la)tex comes from a more innocent
age, when you couldn't write essays in file names.

you _could_ read http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=grffilenames

which would tell you two ways out of the dilemma. the simplest, i
guess, is to have

\usepackage{grffile}

before \begin{document} (the area that's referred to as the "preamble"
of the document).
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge