[pstricks] Problem with pstricks and colortab

[Herbert Voss]

Alberto Vecchiato wrote:

> Yesterday I tried to make a table with colored cells for the first time,
> and not only I didn't succeed, but my attempts at resolving the problem
> made other problems emerge.
> 
> I simply copied a code found elsewhere (actually, the tutorial by Denis
> Girou found at the URL
> http://www.gutenberg.eu.org/pub/GUTenberg/publicationsPS/16-girou.ps.gz)
> into a file with this header
> --------------------------------------
> \documentclass[slideColor,colorBG,pdf,contemporain]{prosper}
> \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
> \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb}
> \usepackage{graphicx}
> \usepackage{pstricks,pst-node,pst-text,pst-3d,pst-grad,colortab}
> --------------------------------------
> The result was a compilation error since LaTeX couldn't find the file
> colortab.sty.  I thought that this was because the documentation is a


did you try these colortab.tex file?

ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/generic/colortab/

Herbert