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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I’m trying to set up PSTricks using MiKTeX 2.8 on
Windows 7. I have studied the page <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=pdf/pdfoutput">http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=pdf/pdfoutput</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>and have tried four ways of PDF export, but have had trouble
with all four of them.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Ps2pdf: Creating the pdf file was easy, but the link to the
pdf2eps script was bad. I found another shell script online, but is there a
simple way to do this with MiKTeX? Or should I install Cygwin?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Pst-pdf: ps2pdf -dAutoRotatePages=/None <file-pics.ps>
<file-pics.pdf> did not work for me. A GhostScript window came up, but no
file was created.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Auto-pst-pdf: I got a long log file. The first error simply
says “Creation of test-auto-pst-pdf-pics.pdf failed.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Pdftricks: I got an error saying<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>(pdftricks)
No \write 18 capability.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>(pdftricks)
You'll have to run a script by yourself!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I executed pdflatex --enable-write18, but maybe some
internal calls did not enable write 18.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Any suggestions?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks in advance!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Helmer Aslaksen<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Dept. of Mathematics<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>National Univ. of Singapore<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Singapore 117543<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Singapore<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>aslaksen@math.nus.edu.sg<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/<o:p></o:p></p>
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