[XeTeX] : Re: Updating XeTeX (plain) for PS Tricks

[John Was]

Thanks.  I thought I'd done all the right things regarding updating files 
and think it's probably best now that I just abandon the idea until a 
TeXLive disc is issued with everything in place.  I'll revert to plan B, 
which is to use PSTricks in EmTeX to create PDFs of graphics and drop these 
into XeTeX files when I need them.  I'll be stuck if I need any of PSTricks' 
in-text effects but will just have to hope that I don't until the TeXLive 
distribution catches up.

But thanks anyway for your help.

Best


John

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> --- John Was <john.was at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>
> Hi,
>
>> (in addition, I can tell you that the PSTricks
>> \scalebox command halts
>> processing with an 'undefined control sequence'
>> error - but perhaps that is
>> because the errors reported below are halting the
>> input of PSTricks itself
>> so that it never gets to the definition of
>> \scalebox):
>
> \scalebox command in PSTricks package is obsolete,
> in order to avoid a conflict with the one in graphics.
> Use \psscalebox instead.
>
>> C:\TeXLive2007\bin\win32>xdvipdfmx pstrexp.xdv
>>
>> ** WARNING ** Couldn't open font map file
>> "psbase14.map".
>> ** WARNING ** Couldn't open font map file
>> "pdfmfnt.map".
>> pstrexp.xdv -> pstrexp.pdf
>> [1
>> ** WARNING ** Unparsed material at end of special
>> ignored.
>>
>> Current input buffer is -->header=pstricks.pro<--
>>
>> ** WARNING ** Unparsed material at end of special
>> ignored.
>>
>> Current input buffer is -->header=pst-dots.pro<--
>>
>> ** WARNING ** Unparsed material at end of special
>> ignored.
>>
>> Current input buffer is -->pst: tx at Dict begin STP
>> newpath 0.8 SLW 0. setgray
>> ...
>> <--
>>
>> ** WARNING ** Unparsed material at end of special
>> ignored.
>>
>> Current input buffer is -->PST: tx at Dict begin 90 Rot
>>  end<--
>>
>> ** WARNING ** Unparsed material at end of special
>> ignored.
>>
>> Current input buffer is -->PST: tx at Dict begin -90
>> Rot  end<--
>> ]
>> 6351 bytes written
>
> You are not using the updated xdvipdfmx but using the
> one in TeXLive!
>
>> Here is the .TEX file that causes this:
> [...]
>> And this \rotateleft{should be rotated left.}\par
>> TeX allows for it to be but in fact it isn't.\par
>
> OK, you have find a bug in the current version of
> xdvipdfmx, namely it doesn't recognize Rot correctly.
> Until the bug is fixed, you can use a workaround:
> \rput{90}{should be rotated left.}
> instead, which would use supported operators
> RotBegin/RotEnd
>
>> Best
>>
>>
>> John
>
> Regards,
> SMiyata
>
>
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