mpgraphics: Unable to compile using MikTex on Windows

Question

This is an example from mpgraphics package documentation:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mpgraphics}
\begin{document}
\begin{mpinline}
draw (20,20)--(0,0)--(0,30)--(30,0)--(0,0)
\end{mpinline}
\end{document}

I am getting something like this:

I'm using:
- mpost version 1.504 (MiKTeX 2.9)
- pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (MiKTeX 2.9)
- MiKTeX EPS-to-PDF Converter 2.9.3275 (MiKTeX 2.9)

I compile using wrige using TexMaker and compile by means of:
latexmk -e "$pdflatex=q/pdflatex -synctex=1 -shell-escape -interaction=nonstopmode/" -pdf %.tex

or

pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode -synctex=1 -shell-escape %.tex (result is the same)

What am I doing wrong?

You can find the log file here. Example compiled by: pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode -enable-write18 -synctex=1 -shell-escape %.tex

Resulting pdf: link

EDIT:
I tried to compile it by a command line. This is what I got: The whole folder with source and logs

Answer 1

As I said in a previous comment, your example compiled without problem in my OSX box, so I was guessing the problem was in your Windows setup.

Looking carefully at your _COMMAND_LINE_.txt file, I noticed the following, in line 72:

Preloading the plain mem file, version 1.004))epstopdf: -o: unknown option

Note the error at the end of the line. Your epstopdf program is refusing -o option, and thus it is not producing the pdf output. mpgraphics package issues a Warning, which somehow, instead of appearing in the standard output or in the .log file, appears in the final pdf. This is why your documment contains the strange text mpgrahphics******** etc. (this could be considered a bug in mpgraphics implementation.)

Nevertheless, the problem is with your epstopdf program. mpgraphics package recommends a "recent" version of epstopdf. I don't know if the problem is that your epstopdf version is not recent enough or whether epstopdf is broken in Windows.

You can try to execute epstopdf --help in command line and learn which switch it uses instead of -o (which is for setting the name of the resulting pdf). Once you know this, you can hack the file mpgraphics.sty (search for the string -o in that file, in my version is at line 77), and change it appropiately.

Answer 2

The problem as user JLDiaz said, is because of the optional argument of -o of epstopdf program. I am sure that epstopdf program in TeXLive on any platform behaves the same. I tried this on Windows with TeXLive 2012 and it worked but it did not work with epstopdf that MiKTeX 2.9 provides. As for now there is no need to hack anything, your minimal working example just needs to be changed into:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mpgraphics}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand*{\mpg@cmd@epstopdf}[2]{epstopdf \mpg@epstopdf@opts\space --outfile "#2" "#1"}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\begin{mpinline}
draw (20,20)--(0,0)--(0,30)--(30,0)--(0,0)
\end{mpinline}
\end{document}

That is the epstopdf in MiKTeX 2.9 accepts --outfile whereas epstopdf in TeXLive 2012 accepts -o. I try my best to fix this in mpgraphics and release a new version of that to CTAN. But I do not think that one could implement an \ifMiKTeX conditional, so I think the only thing I could do is adding MiKTeX option to the package. But if you use TeXLive instead MiKTeX, you should have no problem with the current version of the package.

Update: The new version is now on CTAN. The TDS can be obtained here.

Answer 3

On a Unix system I get the desired result with

latexmk -pdf -pdflatex='pdflatex --shell-escape --interaction=nonstopmode %O %S' filename.tex

Probably on Windows the quotes should be ", so I suggest to try giving Texmaker the instruction

latexmk -pdf -pdflatex="pdflatex --shell-escape --interaction=nonstopmode %O %S" %.tex

If --shell-escape doesn't work you should try --enable-write18

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You may try with gmp, which doesn't use epstopdf, instead of mpgraphics:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[shellescape]{gmp}
\begin{document}
\begin{mpost}
draw (20,20)--(0,0)--(0,30)--(30,0)--(0,0)
\end{mpost}
\end{document}

I tested it with the former call of latexmk and it seems to work.

Disclosure: I'm the author of gmp.