Is example-image-a compatible with DVI mode?

Question

I could not get the expected result when compiling the following with latex-dvips-ps2pdf. The unexpected result is just a single blank page with a page number 1. :-)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\includegraphics{example-image-a}

\end{document}

Is example-image-a compatible with latex (i.e. DVI mode)? Is there an EPS version for that image?

Loading mwe package did not help as well.

Log from latex.exe

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (MiKTeX 2.9)
entering extended mode
(F:\test.tex
LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, afrikaans, ancientgreek, ar
abic, armenian, assamese, basque, bengali, bokmal, bulgarian, catalan, coptic, 
croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, ga
lician, german, german-x-2009-06-19, greek, gujarati, hindi, hungarian, iceland
ic, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, kannada, kurmanji, lao, latin, lat
vian, lithuanian, malayalam, marathi, mongolian, mongolianlmc, monogreek, ngerm
an, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, nynorsk, oriya, panjabi, pinyin, polish, portuguese, 
romanian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, swis
sgerman, tamil, telugu, turkish, turkmen, ukenglish, ukrainian, uppersorbian, u
senglishmax, welsh, loaded.
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\article.cls"
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\size10.clo"))
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\mwe\mwe.sty"
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\graphics\graphicx.sty"
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\graphics\keyval.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\graphics\graphics.sty"
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\graphics\trig.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\00miktex\graphics.cfg")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\graphics\dvips.def")))
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\lipsum\lipsum.sty")
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\blindtext\blindtext.sty"
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\tools\xspace.sty"))) (F:\test.aux
) <example-image-a.eps> [1] (F:\test.aux) )
Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 284 bytes).
Transcript written on test.log.

Answer 1

There is an example-image-a.eps provided by mwe as well as EPS versions for the other images, as stated in the manual.

However, there seems to be an issue with these EPS files as Ulrike pointed out. They seem not include the proper headers which make a PS file an EPS file. I, as author of mwe, will rebuild the EPS files and upload them as soon I find time. I tested the existing versions with TeX Live 2011 under Ubuntu Linux where they worked fine, but other tools might be more picky about the EPS headers.