[pstricks] pdflatex question
Iosif Pinelis
ipinelis at mtu.edu
Fri Mar 16 16:12:34 CET 2007
Thank you very much Luciano. Is it possible to run pst-pdf on plain
Windows (without Cygwin)? If so, what is a better way to do that? (I
have only found instructions for Unix/Linux(?) online).
Iosif Pinelis
Luciano Battaia wrote:
> Now with the new package pst-pdf it is possible to run pdflatex also
> in files with pstricks code. You must preprocess files using pst-pdf
> that automatically extracts pstricks (and other postscript) code from
> the Latex source and then reinserts it during pdflatex compilation.
> Details also in the pstricks site.
> It's preferable to use this way, instead of making separate files with
> psticks pictures.
> I have written a small guide for my students (at High School), but it
> is in italian!
> Luciano Battaia
>
>
>
> */"Andrzej J. Maciejewski" <andrzej.j.maciejewski at gmail.com>/* ha scritto:
>
> Iosif,
> the problem is that to produce a pdf file from latex there are at
> least two ways:
> the one you described and the other is to run pdflatex (in the
> office they know only the last one). But having a pstricks code in
> latex file you cannot run pdflatex on it.
> Thus, you can remove pictures from your paper and send them
> separately as ps files
> or you can make ps files with figures and insert them to your file
> using graphics package.
> -Andrzej
>
> On 3/15/07, *Iosif Pinelis* <ipinelis at mtu.edu
> <mailto:ipinelis at mtu.edu>> wrote:
>
> Sorry for a wrong subject of my previous message!
>
> Iosif Pinelis wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have received a message from the editorial assistant of a
> journal,
> > saying
> >
> >
> >> Would you know how I can successfully run PDFLaTeX on your
> file? The
> >> problem is the pspictures. I need PDFLaTex to generate the
> JIPAM files.
> >
> >
> > Apparently the problem is with pictures like this:
> >
> > \usepackage{pstricks}
> >
> > %% My definition
> > \newcommand{\mvec}[1]{\mbox{\bfseries\itshape #1}}
> > \renewcommand{\u}{\,%
> > \psset{unit=.7pt}
> > \begin{pspicture}(0,0)(9,10)%(10,20)
> > %\psset{unit=1pt}
> > \psline[linewidth=.3pt,origin={0,1}]{-}(0,0)(2,5)(7,5)(9,10)
> > \end{pspicture}
> >
> > I use either TeXnicCenter to produce pdf files on Windows
> (without
> > knowing how the black box works) or, on Linux, dvips -o
> followed by
> > ps2pdf. I don't use pdflatex explicitly. Could you please
> tell me what
> > the problem may be and how to solve it? Thank you.
> >
> > Iosif Pinelis
>
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