<div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Am Tue, 17 Sep 2013 14:02:49 +0200 schrieb Federico Tramarin:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>> I can reproduce the problem with TL 2012, TL2013 and miktex 2.9 on</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>> windows. It goes away if I remove the pstricks related packages and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>> commands.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> Thak you for your test. This give me a bit of comfort ;)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> however, in my linux system I verified that all is going well.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> It is a XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-0.9998 (TeX Live 2012/Debian)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> I need pstrick, so the error remains...</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Really? For what? Why can't you use tikz?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I used pstricks to insert arrows dynamically connecting different elements in a slide.</div><div>Actually, your comment make me aware of this tikz capability ;)</div>
<div>And it seems also more supported and performant than pstricks!</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you very much.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> Any advice!?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Unlike me you have a system where it works and a system where it</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">doesn't work, so you can try to figure out what is the crucial</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">difference. Perhaps it is one of the driver files - then it should</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">be easy to remedy. If the problem resides somewhere in the windows</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">binaries you will have to make a bug report.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">But use a smaller document for the investigation:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">\documentclass{beamer}</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">\usepackage{pstricks}</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">\usetheme{Singapore}</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">\begin{document}</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">\frame{blub}</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">\end{document}</span></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>A part from the pstrick/tikz change...</div><div>The real problem is the pstricks package, as you abserved.</div><div>Even in your minimal test file the error arises.</div><div>But removing the pstricks call it disappears!</div>
<div><br></div><div>And also in my real life presentation, removing pstricks, the compilation completes without error and the</div><div>front page has its shaded background, as expected.</div><div><br></div><div>Now...I am satisfied to have found a solution...But</div>
<div>I will not be able to sleep (this is not true, obviously :) ) until I understand what's happening!</div><div>Why the combination of pstricks and pgf gives these errors?</div><div><br></div><div>It seems more like a clash of some piece of code.</div>
<div>I will investigate, also on the basis of the hints given by other group members.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you very much</div><div><br></div><div>Federico</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div>
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