<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Mar 20, 2010, at 2:21 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>On Mar 20, 2010, at 12:21 PM, Wayne Richter wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">sorry if this has been discussed before.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">here is a close to minimal example.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">When I typeset the following:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\documentclass[12pt]{article}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\usepackage{amsmath}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\usepackage{amssymb,latexsym}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\usepackage{epic,eepic}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\begin{document}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\begin{picture}(100,100)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\put(0,10){\line(1,0){115}}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\put(0,10){\line(0,1){80}}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\put(0,90){\line(1,0){194}}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\put(114,10){\line(1,1){80}}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\end{picture}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\end{document}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">using the TeX+DVI option it comes out fine (a nice trapezoid).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">But when I tex it using the Pdftex option, the pdf file does not show<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the last line (of slope 1).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Why? Or, more precisely, does this mean I should be using the TeX+DVI<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">option when I am doing this kind of graphics?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Wayne<br></blockquote><br>Howdy,<br><br>Chances are that eepic uses eps commands to create the lines of arbitrary slope which are not supported by pdflatex. <br><br>This is similar to the problem of using pstricks under pdflatex: all methods that allow you to include pstricks in pdflatex documents (e.g., the pdftricks and pst-pdf packages), in fact, will create a separate file (or files) and use latex, etc., to compile those files into cropped pdf files which are then included into the original document.<br><br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>This is not the only solution, especially for stuff that only requires epic. Try loading the pict2e package instead of eepic and epic. I think for most things they will work the same way. Your minimal file certainly does, although I don't know if there are other differences that might bite you, but it's worth a try.</div><div><br></div><div>Alan</div><div><br></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; 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; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; 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>-- </div><div>Alan Munn</div><div><a href="mailto:amunn@gmx.com">amunn@gmx.com</a></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>