[pstricks] Example for pdftricks does not work

[Herbert Voss]

Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> I am trying the example given at
> 
> http://www.pstricks.de/pdf/pdfoutput.phtml
> 
> for the package pdftricks. However, I get the error indicated below.

uuh, I tried it years ago. It is not a good idea to use
pdftricks here, too many problems with the bounding
box, e.g.

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{ifpdf}
\ifpdf%
   \usepackage{pdftricks}
   \begin{psinputs}
     \usepackage{pstricks}
   \end{psinputs}
\else
   \usepackage{pstricks}
   \newenvironment{pdfpic}{}{}
\fi

\begin{document}
\section{Hallo}
Welt.

\begin{figure}[htb]
\centering
\caption{The grafic, converted with \texttt{pdftricks}}
\begin{pdfpic}
   \begin{pspicture}(5,2)
     \psline{|<->|}(0,0.3)(4,1.9)
   \end{pspicture}
\end{pdfpic}
\end{figure}

\end{document}



run it with pdflatex --shell-escape file.tex

it is easier to use ps4pdf. With the script ps4pdf for Linux
you do only ps4pdf file.tex


\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{ps4pdf}
\PSforPDF{
     \usepackage{pstricks}
}

\begin{document}
\section{Hallo}
Welt.

\begin{figure}[htb]
\centering
\caption{The grafic, converted with \texttt{ps4pdf}}
\PSforPDF{
   \begin{pspicture}(5,2)
     \psline{|<->|}(0,0.3)(4,1.9)
   \end{pspicture}
}% end PSforPDF
\end{figure}

\end{document}


Herbert


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