can't \includegraphics eps files anymore with xelatex (used to work fine)

Question

I've just noticed that (most likely caused by upgrading to opensuse 11.3 with TexLive 2009) whenever I try to \includegraphics{filename.eps} an eps file, I get the error:

Unable to load picture or PDF file

So documents that built fine now do not build anymore. I use XeLaTeX, and using eps used to work just fine without any special setup (that I can recall). I quickly tried including the epstopdf package and dropping the eps extensions, but I think this is for (pdf)latex only, not xelatex.

My xelatex version is:

This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (TeX Live 2009/openSUSE)

I'd like to be able to build my old documents again whilst having to do as little change as possible... I tried using epstopdf to convert my eps into pdf and then include the pdf. That works, but I'd prefer not having to convert all my eps and references to them if possible at all.

Thanks for any suggestions

Edit: not working on my Fedora13 system anymore either that uses version

2.2-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6)

Example:

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\includegraphics[width=225pt,height=81pt]{magic2.eps}
\end{document}

or bundled with an eps file here

Answer 1

I think perhaps the information provided here and discussed here may be relevant to your problem. Basically TeXlive 2009 (at least certain versions) shipped with the wrong version of a file (xetex.def); updating it may help. Or not. Good luck either way.

Answer 2

Convert the picture to PDF or PNG and remove the file name extension from the \includegraphics command, maybe that will work.

Answer 3

Another reason you might stop being able to include eps files is because the most recent version of texlive (at least the macports version) didn't include the rungs script. This might not be your problem but hopefully it will help some others.

You know you have this issue if you see a message telling you the following failed

rungs .. (really long arguments string)

A quick dirty fix is as follows. Copy and paste the following somewhere in your path and make sure it has executable permissions.

#!/usr/bin/env texlua
--*-Lua-*-
-- $Id: rungs.tlu 7698 2008-04-28 14:23:31Z reinhardk $

-- Copyright (C) 2008 Reinhard Kotucha.
-- You may freely use, modify and/or distribute this file.

-- Run Ghostscript (gs on Unix, gswin32c on Windows)

function fixwin(args_unix)
   if os.type == 'windows' then
      local args_win={}  -- new table
      args_win[0]=args_unix[1]
      for i=1, #args_unix do  
         args_win[i]='"'..args_unix[i]..'"'
      end
      return args_win
   else
      return args_unix
   end
end

if os.type == 'windows' then
   command={'gswin32c'}
else
   command={'gs'}
end

for i=1, #arg do
   command[#command+1]=arg[i]
end

command=fixwin(command)

--[[ prepend an additional hyphen to activate this code
for i=0, #command do
   print (command[i])
end
os.exit(ret)
--]]

ret=os.spawn(command)
os.exit(ret)

Answer 4

Xelatex does not support the eps format, use the other format such as PDF, png, jpg ...

Try \usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}! It may let you to use the EPS format.