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Read the latest news of updates for pstricks.tex!

Important: PSTricks packages are divided into the core and contributed ones. The core is pstricks, pst-plot, pst-node. Load the core packages alwaysbefore all other!

Frequently done errors ...

1. Do not choose pstricks.tex as a file name, it is the name of the main PSTricks package! Windows users pay attention here, there is no difference in lower or upper case letters.
2. Missing number, treated as zero This is the default error message when you are using symbolic node names without enabled \SpecialCoor after loading the pst-node package!
3. Do not choose package pstcol.sty, it is rather out of date. pstricks.sty ( >= v. 1.04 ) does a better job, it also loads by default the extended color package xcolor.sty
4. PSTricks is PostScript Tricks, viewing your PS output with a PS viewer is appropriate. Nearly all DVI-viewers cannot show the correct output.
5. You cannot run your files with pdftex or pdflatex, use the sequence latex->dvips->ps2pdf, or see topic pdfoutput
6. linestyle=dashed doesn't work after an update of pstricks.tex. You should update also pstricks.pro and pstricks.sty.
7. Error message: no room for a new dimen. See UK TeX-FAQ for what to do ...
8. \pspicture[0.5] ... doesn't work anymore! Use instead [shift=*] Read the docs!

News ...

1. 2009-05-26: update pstricks-add
2. 2009-04-29: new package pst-gantt
3. 2009-04-02: update pst-sigsys
4. 2009-03-04: new package pst-support
5. 2009-02-02: update pst-circ
6. 2009-01-29: new file pst-news09.pdf
7. 2009-01-30: update of the base packages pstricks
8. 2009-01-29: new package pst-bezier
9. 2009-01-25: update pst-tree
10. 2009-01-23: update pst-func
11. 2000-01-20: update pst-math
12. 2009-01-15: update bclogo
13. 2009-01-10: update pst-solides3d
14. 2008-12-01: new documentation from the TUG 2008 workshop workshop.zip
15. 2008-11-27: new package pst-bspline
16. 2008-11-18: update pst-3dplot
17. 2008-10-28: new package vaucanson
18. 2008-09-17: new package psbao
19. 2008-09-01: new TeX Live 2008
20. 2008-06-30: update (new option "97") pstricks.sty
21. 2008-06-30: update pstricks
22. 2008-03-21: All PSTricks files as a TDS-tarball (TeX directory structure) PSTricks-TDS.tgz or browse through the files