Texniccenter/eps/pdf and transparent images

[cobalt124]

I'm looking for a way to add eps images with a transparent background to a pdf generated by texniccenter (Windows environment). Can this be done?

 

[MATLABdude]

Can you just incorporate the image using \includegraphics?
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Importing_Graphics#Compiling_with_pdflatex

With my installs of MikTeX and MacTeX, the .eps images get automatically converted to .pdf (and left in the directory for future use) when I run latexpdf. However, the link above (and beside .eps) suggests some alternate steps if you're having trouble.

 

[cobalt124]

Thanks for the link, I think I am on the right track now. I skim read that link previously in my googling and found nothing on transparency and moved on. This time I read it through and realized my two mistakes, the really silly one of initially using gif images (not supported) instead of jpg, which led me to assuming that I could only use eps images, which isn't true. I did notice however that I am running texpdf and not latexpdf which I will have to look into. Anyway, I'm confident I should have this cracked soon. As you've probably guessed, I'm new to latex.

 

[cobalt124]

Cracked it. I don't think latex supports transparency directly, so tried Tikz/pgf. This only supports jpg and png and since jpg doesn't support transparency I tried png and it works. Though I don't see why it shouldn't just work in latex.