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I am trying to compile a document on TeXShop (on a mac). I get an error when I insert a picture from a pdf file. I get the error that bounding box cannot be determined. I looked at other answers. Somebody suggested to compile pdfLatex instead of Latex, but on TexShop I do not see how to do it.

I also tried to fix a bounding box on LaTeX, as in the following:

\includegraphics[width=1\columnwidth][bb=0 0 100 100]{nameFileFigure}

but it does not work.

How can I solve this problem?

doed
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  • At the top of the TeXShop Window, there are several dropdown menus. One of them (the second from the left) states “LaTeX” and can be changed to “pdflatexmk”. That's what you want to try, if you include a pdf. You could also change your PDF into an eps, if you really want to work with LaTeX further on. – Ronny Dec 09 '13 at 05:10
  • The syntax for includegraphics has only one optional argument, different options should be separated by commas: \includegraphics[width=1\columnwidth,bb=0 0 100 100]{nameFileFigure} – Andrew Swann Dec 10 '13 at 11:31

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In TeXShop, the Typeset menu includes a line Pdftex. Make sure that is ticked to run pdflatex instead of latex.

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If you wish to supply a bounding box explicitly to an \includegraphics command whilst specifying the width the syntax is

\includegraphics[width=0.8\linewdith,bb=0 0 100 100]{figurefile}

with options one set of square brackets and separated by commas.

Andrew Swann
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I encount this error for many times. And find a simple solution for me: just add option dvipdfmx to package graphicx

like this: \usepackage[dvipdfmx]{outline}

If use beamer, above will cause clash error. This can be solved by adding

\PassOptionsToPackage{dvipdfmx}{graphicx}

to the top of the tex file.

qiang wang
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