Unknown graphics extension: .eps

Post date: Sep 1, 2011 3:40:41 AM

I'm using TeXnicCenter, and it gives me the error

" LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .eps."

which seems to require converting eps to pdf before using pdflatex to compile the document. However, in the template, it appears that there use the command {\epsfig{file = SciTePress.eps, width = 5.5cm}}, so I don't want to convert eps to pdf. Fortunately, I found an article discussing a solution to the problem using

\usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{epstopdf}

which works very well for me without changing the figure to pdf manually or using includefigure. It look to me like the command will automatically convert the eps to pdf and include the pdf figures into the document seamlessly.