[XeTeX] pstricks

[Jonathan Kew]

On 13 Jun 2006, at 2:05 pm, Yves Codet wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I'm trying to do something very simple with "pstricks", without much
> success. I have:
>
> 	\usepackage[dvips]{pstricks}
>
> in the preamble, and:
>
> 	\begin{pspicture}(0,0)(2,2)
> 	\psdots[linecolor=black,dotstyle=asterisk,dotscale=2](0,0)(0,2)(1,1)
> 	\end{pspicture}
>
> in the document, and nothing but blank space in the output. Sorry  
> about
> this newbie question but what did I miss?

This cannot work in xetex, because pstricks will be generating  
postscript fragments; but xetex doesn't understand, use or generate  
postscript output, and does not work with the dvips driver.

Depending on your particular needs, it may be possible to use a  
package such as ps4pdf to convert the postscript graphics into pdf,  
which xetex can then include. Or if you're on linux, with the  
xdvipdfmx driver, the pdftricks package might be a usable alternative  
to pstricks. (I have not tried either of these suggestions, they're  
just ideas people might want to experiment with.)

JK