Help on Latex

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  • To trigger an update of the .sty data-base:
sudo texhash
  • Sometimes, as when you have a bunch of eps instead of pdfs, you can't use pdflatex. Yuo can convert them using epstopdf or eps2pdf, but another solution is doing:
latex myfile.tex
dvipdfm myfile.dvi

Instead of:

pdflatex myfile.tex

To etract bounding boxes:

ebb -v file.jpg