dimension to large with \includegraphics
Phillip Helbig
For reasons too complicated to go into, I have an EPSF file produced by
DVIPS/EPSF from LaTeX with \textheight=60cm. I want to scale this by 0.25
and include it in another .tex file. The EPSF file looks OK with
ghostview by itself. When I try to include it, I get an error message
from LaTeX that the dimension is too large.
If I do exactly the same thing with a textheight of only 20cm,
everything works as expected.
Why is there this restriction? Is it documented anywhere? Are there
plans to get rid of it in the future?
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Phillip Helbig
In article <5r6dbu$o...@yama.mcc.ac.uk>, hel...@multivac.jb.man.ac.uk
(Phillip Helbig) writes:
> When I try to include it, I get an error message
> from LaTeX that the dimension is too large.
>
> If I do exactly the same thing with a textheight of only 20cm,
> everything works as expected.
The limit seems to be 57.66cm (textheight=pageheight here, by the way).
David Carlisle
You don't give enough information for us to help:-) If you think you
have found a bug please send a report using latexbug.tex to the bugs
address (please keep the example file small (for example the eps file
you include need only consist of the bounding box comment, saves my
phone bill:-)
David
Stefano Agostinelli
On 24 Jul 1997 02:06:54 GMT, hel...@multivac.jb.man.ac.uk (Phillip Helbig)
wrote:
>For reasons too complicated to go into, I have an EPSF file produced by
>DVIPS/EPSF from LaTeX with \textheight=60cm. I want to scale this by 0.25
>and include it in another .tex file. The EPSF file looks OK with
>ghostview by itself. When I try to include it, I get an error message
>from LaTeX that the dimension is too large.
>
>If I do exactly the same thing with a textheight of only 20cm,
>everything works as expected.
>
>Why is there this restriction? Is it documented anywhere? Are there
>plans to get rid of it in the future?
I think you got a message like: "Float too large...."
This message does tell you that the figure you're trying to produce is too large
to fit your document's margins.
BTW: You can make LaTeX scale your eps files. The following example includes and
scales by 50% "myfile.eps".
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{myfile.eps}
Cheers
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Stefano Agostinelli
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