[TxMt] LaTeX package epsfig forces the use of latex instead of pdflatex?

Hello all,

I use TextMate to create PDFs with LaTeX. I've configured TextMate to use pdflatex as the compile engine (TM_LATEX_COMPILER=pdflatex and the default engine in the LaTeX preferences is pdflatex too). That works fine.

Today I had to use for some reason the package epsfig and TextMate ran everytime latex instead of pdflatex. Finally I forced the use of pdflatex with the "%!TEX TS-program = pdflatex" directive in the tex file.

Is there an explanation for that behaviour and maybe a solution for that? (I found 3 postings here which are somehow related to that problem, but because I'm not an expert, I didn't get the clue, which might be in there.)

Thanks for your attention

Juergen