image not shown in dvi after latexing

Question

Hi,

I include several images of eps format in latex. After latex command, there are some of the images missing in the dvi file. Not sure if it is related to the image size, most of the images missing have size around 83kB while those shown up have a size less than 40kB. After conversion from dvi to ps, the images are all back. Just wonder what is the reason causing the images missing in dvi file?

Thanks and regards!

Answer 1

As far as I can remember, a dvi viewer cannot show eps file. Just use pdflatex as the front-end instead of latex and view the resulting pdf file.

Checking man xdvi reveals this:

Xdvi can show PostScript specials by any of three methods. It will try first to use Display PostScript, then NeWS, then it will try to use Ghostscript to render the images. All of these options depend on additional software to work properly; moreover, some of them may not be compiled into this copy of xdvi.

So it would appear to be platform- and/or implementation-dependent.