LaTeX Question

[Reisswolf]

I have a strange problem. I would like to include a figure in my PDF file, and my LaTeX source looks like this:

\begin{figure}[htbp]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{FCM_1.eps}
\end{center}
\caption{My Caption}
\end{figure}

Then I run the command

$ latex MyFile.tex

which returns MyFile.dvi. I can view the figure in the dvi file (using xdvi), but when I run pdflatex to convert the file into a PDF file I cannot see any diagram in the final PDF output, even though the compilation proceeds without error.

Can someone please tell me what is going on here?

[genesus]

instead of running pdflatex, try directly converting the dvi with dvipdfm filename.dvi...For some reason, I get much better luck with that...are the results the same?

[Reisswolf]

Thank you very much, genesus. Your suggestion indeed works!