<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Feb 15, 2010, at 5:37 PM, Iraj Kalantari wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Esteemed Experts,<div><br></div><div>I was looking for a package that could handle playing cards and I came upon a wonderful-looking one by Olaf Encke at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.text.tex/2007-10/msg00350.html">http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.text.tex/2007-10/msg00350.html</a>.</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></span></font></div><div>I downloaded the package from:</div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; "><br>download site: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.encke.net/UpDownload-req-viewdownloaddetails-lid-21-title-poker.sty...LaTeX.Poker.package.v0.8a.html" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); background-color: transparent; ">http://www.encke.net/UpDownload-req-viewdownloaddetails-lid-21-title-poker.sty...LaTeX.Poker.package.v0.8a.html</a><br>direct link: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.encke.net/UpDownload-req-getit-lid-21.html" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); background-color: transparent; ">http://www.encke.net/UpDownload-req-getit-lid-21.html</a><br></span></div><div><br></div><div>But I am unable to run 'poker.doc.tex' (the author's introduction) on my Mac (10.5.8, relevant?) </div></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></blockquote>As others have mentioned, you need to compile these documents using TeX+DVI, not pdflatex. But there's an error in the poker.sty file itself: it assumes an older version of pstricks.</div><div><br></div><div>To get the documentation to compile, either change all instances of \scaleboxto to \psscaleboxto in poker.sty, or add </div><div><br></div><div>\let\scaleboxto\psscaleboxto</div><div><br></div><div>to the preamble of any document you compile with the original sty file.</div><div><br></div><div>Alan</div><div> </div><br></body></html>