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I have the following code:

\begin{figure}[htp]
\centering
\includegraphics[]{home/me/Music/MSc/Thesis/genbank.png}
\caption{The growth of genbank}\label{fig:name}
\end{figure}

But a blank box appears with the path to the file. Why is this?

Other questions on this site have had paths with special characters, and removing them has solved the problem. However, I don't have any special characters in mine. My packages list is:

\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{grffile}
\pagenumbering{roman}
\newcounter{qcounter}
\let\centering\relax
\usepackage{color, colortbl}
\definecolor{name}{system}{definition}
\definecolor{Gray}{gray}{0.9}
\definecolor{LightCyan}{rgb}{0.88,1,1}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage{fancybox}
\MakeOuterQuote{"}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath, amsthm, amssymb}

What is the problem?

Peter Mortensen
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brucezepplin
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  • Welcome to TeX.SX! Have you got draft among the documentclass options? Edit: If so, remove it, what you're seeing is one of the effects. See also http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/11004/why-does-the-image-not-appear – Torbjørn T. Sep 26 '13 at 16:53
  • can you also put '%' immediately after music or remove line break there? and temove extension if you are using pdflatex – percusse Sep 26 '13 at 17:03
  • @percusse - no I have {article} in the documentclass options – brucezepplin Sep 26 '13 at 17:51
  • Do you receive any error message or warning when you compile your file? In which folder is your main file? – Ludovic C. Sep 26 '13 at 17:58
  • @Ludovic C - the main file is in the same folder as the .png file. interestingly the compiler says it cannot find the file. that's with the extended path or not. – brucezepplin Sep 26 '13 at 18:11
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    To include graphics even when having draft as a \documentclas options, specify final as an option to graphicx. I.e. \usepackage[final]{graphicx}. (I realize that your problem may be due to something else, I just added this comment for others reading this question.) – Johan_E Sep 26 '13 at 18:16
  • even when I go into the texmaker Latex menu and select use the wizard to insert a picture by browsing the .png file, it still says file not found. this makes no sense as the wizard can find it. – brucezepplin Sep 26 '13 at 18:22
  • I have it - the .png file I am using had been converted from a .gif. it seems this is a bad conversion as the compiler says it "is not a .PNG file". tried with another .png and it worked fine. thanks for all your help guys – brucezepplin Sep 26 '13 at 18:25

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