[pstricks] PSTricks and PDF

[Helmer Aslaksen]

Dear Herbert,

Thanks for your response! I read the digest, so I didn't see your response until after sending my second letter. As I said I managed to solve three of my problems on my own. And for the last one, the only thing I couldn't get to work was the pdf2eps part. So I'm OK. 

However, maybe you could make some changes to the page?

1. The standard pdftricks package does not work out of the box under MiKTeX. You have to use the modified package that is linked to from 
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~pneumann/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=MyUniversity.PdfTricks  or directly from the web page of Shujun LI.

2. The description for pst-pdf says to do ps2pdf -dAutoRotatePages=/None. I think the problem is that Windows does not like the =. I found a bat file that had replaced the = with # and that worked.

3. The link to pdf2eps is bad.

Thanks!

Helmer Aslaksen

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Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 11:34:30 +0800
From: Helmer Aslaksen <mathelmr at nus.edu.sg>
To: "pstricks at tug.org" <pstricks at tug.org>
Subject: [pstricks] PSTricks and PDF
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Hi,

I'm trying to set up PSTricks using MiKTeX 2.8 on Windows 7. I have studied the page

http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=pdf/pdfoutput

and have tried four ways of PDF export, but have had trouble with all four of them.

Ps2pdf: Creating the pdf file was easy, but the link to the pdf2eps script was bad. I found another shell script online, but is there a simple way to do this with MiKTeX? Or should I install Cygwin?

Pst-pdf: ps2pdf -dAutoRotatePages=/None <file-pics.ps> <file-pics.pdf> did not work for me. A GhostScript window came up, but no file was created.

Auto-pst-pdf: I got a long log file. The first error simply says "Creation of test-auto-pst-pdf-pics.pdf failed."

Pdftricks: I got an error saying

(pdftricks)                No \write 18 capability.
(pdftricks)                You'll have to run a script by yourself!

I executed pdflatex --enable-write18, but maybe some internal calls did not enable write 18.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Helmer Aslaksen
Dept. of Mathematics
National Univ. of Singapore
Singapore 117543
Singapore

aslaksen at math.nus.edu.sg
www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/

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Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 09:23:13 +0200
From: Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss at FU-Berlin.DE>
To: pstricks at tug.org
Subject: Re: [pstricks] PSTricks and PDF
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Am 26.05.2010 05:34, schrieb Helmer Aslaksen:
> 
> I'm trying to set up PSTricks using MiKTeX 2.8 on Windows 7. I have studied the page
> 
> http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=pdf/pdfoutput
> 
> and have tried four ways of PDF export, but have had trouble with all four of them.
> 
> Ps2pdf: Creating the pdf file was easy, but the link to the pdf2eps script was bad. I found another shell script online, but is there a simple way to do this with MiKTeX? Or should I install Cygwin?

there is no need for cygwin. Important is only an installed ghostscript.
Then you can use the sequence latex->dvips->ps2pdf. For TeXnicCenter
you'll find a profile here
http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/pst-support/
You have to modify the path, if using another location or version
of miktex

> Auto-pst-pdf: I got a long log file. The first error simply says "Creation of test-auto-pst-pdf-pics.pdf failed."

you need also running "pdflatex --enable-write18"

Maybe others can give more help, because I use
texlive on windows which is a bit different to MiKTeX

Herbert


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