Images visualization with dvips and pdflatex

Question

Hi everyone I'm trying to include pictures in my work this is my set up:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twoside,openright]{report}

\usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}
\usepackage{chngpage}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{subfigure}
\usepackage{afterpage}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}            
\usepackage{rotating}  
\usepackage{fancyhdr}  
\usepackage[scriptsize]{caption} 
\hyphenation{a-gen-tiz-za-zio-ne}

\setlength{\paperwidth}{16cm}
\setlength{\paperheight}{24cm}
\setlength{\oddsidemargin} {2. cm}
\setlength{\evensidemargin} {2. cm}
\addtolength{\oddsidemargin} {-0.4 cm}
\addtolength{\evensidemargin} {-0.4 cm}
\linespread{1.1}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\renewcommand{\captionfont}{\normalfont \sffamily \itshape \small}

\pagestyle{empty}

\begin{document}
\include{frontespizio}
\thispagestyle{empty} \normalfont \cleardoublepage
\include{dedica}
\thispagestyle{empty}  \cleardoublepage
\pagenumbering{Roman}
\include{sommario}
\thispagestyle{empty} \vspace*{.75truecm} \cleardoublepage
\include{ringraziamenti}
\thispagestyle{empty} \vspace*{.75truecm} \normalfont \cleardoublepage
\pagestyle{plain}\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{\chaptername\ \thechapter.\ #1}{}} 
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{\thesection.\ #1}}         
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\bfseries\thepage}    

\fancyhead[RE]{\bfseries\leftmark}    
\fancyhead[LO]{\bfseries\rightmark}     
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.3pt} 

\include{capitolo1}
\include{capitolo2}
\include{capitolo3}
\include{capitolo4}
\include{capitolo5}
\include{capitolo6}
\include{capitolo7}

\cleardoublepage
% ---- Bibliography ----
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliografia}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{bibl_tesi}
%\nocite{*}

\appendix

\pagestyle{fancy} 
\fancyfoot{}                                               
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{\appendixname\ \thechapter.\ #1}{}} 
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{\thesection.\ #1}}         
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\bfseries\thepage}    

\fancyhead[RE]{\bfseries\leftmark}    
\fancyhead[LO]{\bfseries\rightmark}     
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.3pt} 

\include{appendiceA}
\include{appendiceB}
\include{appendiceC}
\include{appendiceD}
\include{appendiceE}
\include{appendiceF}

\end{document}

I read all the previous posts on the subject I tried everything the only thing that seems to work is removing dvips from graphicx, the problem is that as soon as I remove dvips the images re-appear but all the text shifts to right and it's impossible to read properly.

I don't know if might be useful but I'm working with Overleaf

(The names in the pictures are not real names)

Answer 1

You are setting \paperwidth to 16cm, but you are not changing the text width, so your text actually doesn't fit on the paper. When loading graphicx without any option, graphicx will also ensure that the background in the pdf viewer is set to 16cm and this gives you the impression that the text suddently shifts.

Use geometry to setup the page size instead of setting \paperwidth and \oddsidemargin etc manually:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twoside,openright]{report}

\usepackage{graphicx}

\usepackage[paperwidth=16cm,paperheight=24cm,hmargin=1.6cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}