<br><br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Unless you are running a customized version of pdfTeX<br>which supports PSTricks, you cannot use PSTricks macros
<br>with pdfTeX.<br>Guaranteed way to generate a PDF is either<br> vlatex yourfile.tex<br>or<br> latex yourfile.tex && dvips yourfile.dvi && ps2pdf14<br><a href="http://yourfile.ps">yourfile.ps</a><br>If you do insist, there is a much more complicated path
<br>using pst-pdf, which involves pdflatex in the way.<br>Alternatively, if you are willing to beta test the<br>new xdvipdfmx announced in a separate thread, either<br> xelatex yourfile.tex<br>or<br> xelatex -no-pdf yourfile.tex
&& xdvipdfmx yourfile.xdv<br>may work.</blockquote><div><br>Aha, great stuff. I had no idea pdfTeX was so grumpy with PSTricks.<br>Since I'm a Windows user I'm guessing VTeX is out of the question. <br>
I did try the second alternative you gave me - TEX -> DVI -> PS -> PDF. It works great - and it (including the rotated labels) looks awesome!<br>But - when using the select tool in the PDF reader, the selection isn't the way it should be.
<br><br>See the screenshot below<br>----- <a href="http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/2371/latexgz1.jpg">http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/2371/latexgz1.jpg</a> ----<br><br>I did some troubleshooting and found out that it occurs when I use
<br> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}<br></div><br>I did some "research" and found out that I can replace the above with <br> \usepackage{ae,aecompl}<br><br>What do they even do, and why should I replace it? I also noticed that the PDF size changed drastically when I DIDNT use fontenc.
<br><br>Thank you, SMiyata, for pointing me in the right direction regarding the creation of the PDF and translating the log.<br></div>