Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: probs with grafics in docbook-xml and passivetex

[Dave Pawson <daveP@dpawson.freeserve.co.uk>]

At 07:19 AM 5/29/01, Juan R. Migoya wrote:
>I have found that when pdftex can't find a graphics file, it send a
>message about "unknown grphic extension", but it's not true: it's just
>that it can't find the file.
>
>Make sure the path to the graphic is relative to the main document you
>are converting, and that you run pdftex from the main document directory.
>I.E:
>
>dirone/mmm.tex
>dirone/images/my_picture.jpg
>
>You should run pdftex in dirone. You can't write: "pdftex somedir/dirone/mmm.tex":
>Pdftex won't find the graphic file: it will search in somedir/images.


Scenario. (problem matches your description).

/root   Where I call passivetex from.
  /part1  (includes a reference to a graphic, in /root/graphics)

So in the docbook file in directory /root/part1/chapter1.xml
  whats the reference to graphics1.jpg?
   is it ../graphics/graphics1.jpg ?

Regards DaveP