Specific image not compiling

Question

I am writing a dissertation which already contains dozens of images in eps format. All of them compile just fine. Except for this one:

I get the following error message: Unable to read an entire line---bufsize=200000. Please increase buf_size in texmf.cnf. /user/textbin/dvips: ! unexpected eof in DVI file

Let me first emphasize that I have encountered this error before. From my understanding, it means LaTeX cannot compile the image itself (usually because I've photoshopped the picture). I've always successfully managed to fix the problem by copy-pasting the image itself into a new blank image and re-saving it.

This time, no amount of copy-pasting into a new image works. This may be due to the fact that this image is extremely heavily Photoshopped.

Here's the link to the image itself: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tz8b3xhwplijiko/supernatural_photoshop.eps?dl=0

Can any of you successfully embed it in a LaTeX file?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

The file has a binary preview at the start. You can either delete it (everything from the start up to %!PS) in any reasonable editor, or re-save the image from the original application without a preview.

Answer 2

The EPS is given as binary EPS file (DOS EPS binary file), a format, which allows the bundling of the PostScript section with a TIFF or Windows Metafile. The first version of the specification seems to be written in 1985, the current version is 3.0 from 1992. This age explains the "DOS" a bit.

Unhappily dvips does not support this kind of file. Some time ago, I have written a converter to extract the PostScript (and other sections) of a binary EPS file, see dosepsbin, available in CTAN and packaged in TeX Live, and MiKTeX.

The command line:

dosepsbin --eps-file supernatural.eps supernatural_photoshop.eps

Then supernatural.eps is used in LaTeX.

Answer 3

I did it a somewhat unorthodox way (I don't know if this is helpful to you or not):

I just did a screenshot of the image, and it looked the same as it did in the dropbox file. Then, I uploaded it (I use sharelatex.com) and used the code

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\includegraphics{Babylon}

\end{document}

And got the photo on a LaTeX document.

If this isn't an option for you (to screenshot it) I'll delete this answer, but I just thought I'd throw the idea out there. Hope this helps!