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I want to include an eps file in LaTeX. I typed the following in Texmaker

\begin{document}
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=1]{figure}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

The error I get is 

! LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in figure.eps (no BoundingBox).

Please help!

Mico
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Vishal Upadhyay
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  • Welcome to TeX.SE! What is the filename extension of your graphics file? Is it .eps, or something else? Please advise. – Mico Sep 17 '13 at 19:20
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    does you figure have a bounding box (a line like %%BoundingBox: 1 2 3 4) It should have if it is a valid EPS file. – David Carlisle Sep 17 '13 at 19:24
  • As @David Carlisle is saying; try opening your figure.eps in a text_editor and search for the word: BoundingBox. If it is not there, then something is wrong. What is the source of your figure? – hpekristiansen Sep 17 '13 at 19:29
  • in some .eps files, the bounding box information is at the end, rather than at the beginning where it really belongs. (and latex won't find it at the end.) with more specific information, someone here can give instructions on how to repair it. – barbara beeton Sep 17 '13 at 20:11
  • @barbarabeeton it should find it at the end, that's the plan anyway – David Carlisle Sep 17 '13 at 21:11
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    @DavidCarlisle -- we've had problems here in production with the bounding box at the end; maybe it's dvips that can't find it properly, but in any case, we always have to make repairs. so i made an assumption ... – barbara beeton Sep 17 '13 at 21:14
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    What do you get with \includegraphics[bb=0 0 100 100]{figure} ? –  Jan 29 '14 at 08:38
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    Also, I encountered the same problem. In my case, I had dots in the filename. e.g. abc.def.png – Ashot Matevosyan Sep 24 '19 at 10:57

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Although the question has been answered by @DavidCarlisle in the comment, I'll try to complete the answer here.

This is not supposed to happen for valid eps files, as they should contain a BoundingBox comment and the graphicx package should be able to read it. The error message is typical when including bitmap graphics, e.g. jpg, as explained here.

In case you have a peculiar eps file which contains a BoundingBox comment but, for some reason, graphicx cannot read it, you can try searching your file. Do this either by opening the file in a text editor or by using something like the grep command:

grep BoundingBox figure.eps

You should normally see a line like:

%%BoundingBox: 0 0 30 30

Then, update your \includegraphics by supplying that:

\includegraphics[scale=1,bb=0 0 30 30]{figure}

In case you cannot find a bounding box (and your eps file is still usable, of course, which may not be the case), I'd suggest that you try guessing it. Start, e.g. with bb=0 0 100 100 and see what you get, then try increasing or decreasing the numbers. They are, in turn: lower-left-x (llx), lower-left-y (lly), upper-right-x (urx), and upper-right-y (ury). The width of the picture is urx-llx and the height is ury-lly.

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nickie
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I've had the same error occur too. In my case it turned out that I had a file named figure.eps.pdf, and so the \includegraphics command (which apparently tries to guess the file ending) tried to load that instead of figure.eps. Deleting the file figure.eps.pdf solved my problem.

BlenderBender
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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}

That solved my problem in any format .png, pdf, ps, eps...

Herman Jaramillo
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