Images on latex not appearing

Question

I cannot seem to get the images to appear on latex. I get no error messages and, it has no problems compiling. However, the produced (.pdf) which is what I am using, does not have the image. Essentially, everything I am using is in

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,epsf,portrait,times,epsfig]{article}

\usepackage[dvips]{graphics}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{xspace}
\usepackage{fancybox}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.5}
\setlength{\parskip}{0.2cm}
\setlength{\parindent}{0.0cm}
\setlength{\textheight}{8.5in}
\setlength{\textwidth}{16.0cm}
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0in}
\setlength{\evensidemargin}{0in}
\setlength{\topmargin}{0in}

\pagenumbering{arabic}
\numberwithin{equation}{subsection}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
    \centering
        \includegraphics{C:/Users/Reza/Desktop/Test/Untitled.jpg}
    \label{fig:Untitled}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

I am using Texniccenter, and using LaTeX=>PDF. Help please!

Answer 1

Your file contains incompatibilities.

You use the packages graphics and graphix. Only one is needed. In addition, you specify the dvips driver for graphics. This is not the correct driver if you are using pdflatex (which is what I think you are using).

In addition, you are better off not using complete paths, but rather relative paths. This is what tohecz was suggesting with the \includegraphics{<filename>} and placing your picture in the same folder as your .tex file.

As an example, the following file (by the way, this is what tohecz meant by minimal example) works:

\documentclass[]{article}

\usepackage[]{graphics}
%\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
    \includegraphics{Untitled.jpg}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

If you really want to use the dvips and the other options, then your images must be in .eps format. This means you must convert your .jpg image to .eps. In addition, you will have to compile with something of the form latex -> dvi -> pdf.

Answer 2

This is not exactly the answer to the original question, but this is the solution that helped in my case, when the other solution did not work.

In my case the figures were not showing up because I was using obsolete additional arguments natheight and natwidth for the \includegraphics command:

    \includegraphics[width = 3in, natheight = 400, natwidth = 400]{Figure.jpg}

If you are using pdfLaTex (as opposed to dvi output, which cannot determine the size of graphics) they are not necessary, so just remove those options and only specify the output width/height if necessary:

    \includegraphics[width = 3in]{Figure.jpg}

Answer 3

For me it was a completely different problem than any other solution I could find. I was using a template with a .cls file and inside that template, the following line was written \AtBeginDocument{\let\includegraphics\NAT@ignore}. Basically it tells the compiler to ignore the \includegraphics{} command. I commented that line and now it works like a charm !