Newbie cant get \externalfigure to work

Newbie cant get \externalfigure to work

[fa441907]

Newbie cant get \externalfigure to work

 Just starting with Context
 I'm using 4TEX 5.0 (ver June 1999)
 I want to make a pdf document with some pictures
 In LaTex, this (postscript) works;
        \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
        \usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}
        \begin{document}
        \frame{%
         \includegraphics{DSCN0043.eps}
        }%

           Some text
       \end{document}

 I try the same thing in Context
 and I get an empty box with 3 lines of text
 "name: dummy"
 "file: DSN0043"
 "unknown"
Heres my script:

 \setupoutput[pdftex]
    \useexternalfigure
    [appleblossom][DSCN0043]
    [type=eps,width=.4\makeupwidth]
 \starttext
  \startfiguretext
   [left]
   [fig:appleblossom]
   {none}
   {\externalfigure
    [DSCN0043]
    [type=eps,width=.4\makeupwidth,frame=on]}

   Some text
  \stopfiguretext
 \stoptext

log file says
 ConTeXt ver: 1999.5.11 fmt: 1999.6.4 int: english mes: english
 ...snip...
 systems        : begin file 2Context at line 23
 figures        : figure DSCN0043 can not be found


Thank you for your help
Richard Hardwick

Re: Newbie cant get \externalfigure to work

[Maarten Sneep]

On vrijdag, mei 9, 2003, at 11:08 Europe/Amsterdam, fa441907 wrote:

> Newbie cant get \externalfigure to work
>
>  Just starting with Context
>  I'm using 4TEX 5.0 (ver June 1999)

Please update to the current version (step 1, will solve many problems
you're likely to discover from now on)

I see you're using pdftex. No version of pdftex can handle eps directly.
Please convert your image to pdf and use that. You can use acrobat of 
ghostscript
to convert your file.

Hope this helps.

Maarten

>  \setupoutput[pdftex]
>     \useexternalfigure
>     [appleblossom][DSCN0043]
>     [type=eps,width=.4\makeupwidth]

Re: Newbie cant get \externalfigure to work

[Severin Obertuefer]

hi

as marteen said, you cannot include a eps figure directly.
then you can shorten your text like this:
\setupoutput[pdftex]

\useexternalfigure[appleblossom][DSCN0043]

[width=.4\makeupwidth]

\starttext

\startfiguretext

[left]

{none}

{\externalfigure[appleblossom]}

Some text

\stopfiguretext

\stoptext

I think that's what you want

greez severin