Problem with \includegraphics - file not found!

Question

I am trying to include a graph in a tex document. I do realize that there have already been several questions asked about this topic, but I think by now I have tried all suggested solutions but none seem to work. This is the minimal example:

\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\graphicspath{{C:/Users/felix/Desktop/Bachelorarbeit/TeX/BA_text2/images}}
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}

\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[scale=1]{gap_v3_v4_AT.png}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

Information about my setup:

I am using Texmaker and MiKTeX 2.9.

Things I have tried:

• Absolute and relative paths,
• not initialising a figure environment,
• including the directory where the graph is in the MiKTeX Options-> root directory (was suggested in one of the answers to a similar question)

There is definetly a .png file with the same exact name in the folder set by \graphicspath.

I would be really grateful for any ideas!

Answer 1

\graphicspath does not really setup directories. graphics (or graphicx) only adds the given strings before the file name of the mandatory argument of a \includegraphics, tries to open the file and if is successful uses this concatenated file name to include the file. So

\graphicspath{{C:/Users/felix/Desktop/Bachelorarbeit/TeX/BA_text2/images}}
\includegraphics[scale=1]{gap_v3_v4_AT.png}

would try to load C:/Users/felix/Desktop/Bachelorarbeit/TeX/BA_text2/imagesgap_v3_v4_AT.png (note the missing slash before gap_v3_v4_AT.png). If C:/Users/felix/Desktop/Bachelorarbeit/TeX/BA_text2/images is the name of a directory, you should append a slash at the end:

\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\graphicspath{{C:/Users/felix/Desktop/Bachelorarbeit/TeX/BA_text2/images/}}
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}

\begin{document}
\includegraphics[scale=1]{gap_v3_v4_AT.png}
\end{document}

In this example graphicx will try to load C:/Users/felix/Desktop/Bachelorarbeit/TeX/BA_text2/images/gap_v3_v4_AT.png.

BTW: \includegraphics does not need a figure environment. figure environments makes sense only, if LaTeX should move the figure if it could not be printed in place. Mostly figure without \caption makes no sense.

Answer 2

1. You can try to finish your \graphicspath statement with a double slash (//)
2. Check the path that you registered in \graphicspath. Many times the file doesn't compile because of a small typo. Try to copy and paste the path from the properties of the file.

Answer 3

I just found that I had a small letter i in Images, instead of capitalized. Corrected this, and it worked fine. Be careful, Linux is case sensitive with file names.