Ross,<br><br>Thank you for your quick feedback.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ross Moore</b> <<a href="mailto:ross@ics.mq.edu.au">ross@ics.mq.edu.au</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello Jonny,<br><br>On 23/10/2007, at 4:03 AM, Jonny Smith wrote:<br><br>> Hi,<br>><br>
> I have 2 little questions and was wondering if someone could help<br>> me out...<br>><br>> 1) pdflatex and xypic on miktex and winedt.<br>><br>> I am using miktex 2.7 and winedt and wanna pdflatex my posters.
<br>> Like many other users latex, dvips, and ps2pdf is not preferred. At<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/MacOSX-TeX-Digests/2002/MacOSX-">http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/MacOSX-TeX-Digests/2002/MacOSX-
</a><br>> TeX_Digest_04-21-02.html<br>><br>> I was reading some instruction on how to make that work. I did the<br>> windows equivalent, i.e. copied all the xy*.tex files into the folder<br>><br>> C:\programs\MiKTeX2.7Basic\tex\generic
<br>><br>> and did<br>><br>> \usepackage[xypdf,all,color]{xy}<br><br>This will work only if you have installed the support files that<br>are contained in this archive:<br><br> <a href="http://www-texdev.ics.mq.edu.au/xypic/xypdf.tar.gz">
http://www-texdev.ics.mq.edu.au/xypic/xypdf.tar.gz</a><br><br>><br>><br>> in the header of my latex file. When pdflatexing It would then<br>> complain saying<br>><br>> ! Xy-pic error: No `xypdf@' option.
<br>> \xyerror@ ...#2}\fi \errmessage {Xy-pic error: #1}<br>> }<br>> l.75<br>><br>> Do you know what to do?<br><br><br>Install the files from the xypdf.tar.gz
archive.<br>These can go into the same place as other Xy-pic files,<br>or into a local texmf/ tree, within an appropriate<br>hierarchy of directories to match the system texmf/ tree.</blockquote><div><br><br>I thought I did exactly that and copied all these files into the xypic folder plus into my working directory. It ain't working though and still can't find that xypdf option.
<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">><br>><br>> 2) I was playing with those color options, wanted to define some
<br>> colors doing<br>><br>> \xdefinecolor{mygreen}{cmyk}{0.92,0,0.87,0.09}<br>><br>> as well as<br>><br>> \newxycolor{mygreen}{0.92,0,0.87}<br>> ...<br>><br>> \xy<br>> (0,-30)*+[F**:mygreen:<10pt>]{
<br>> X = \dots<br>> }};<br>> \endxy<br>><br>> Turns out that this box is filled entirely black. Another box<br>><br>> (0,-60)*+[F**:red:<10pt>]{<br>> X = \dots<br>> }};
<br>><br>> in this file, however, becomes red as supposed to. Was then having<br>><br>> \usepackage{xcolor}<br>> \usepackage[dvips,all,color]{xy}<br>><br>> in the header.<br>><br>> Similarly, the line
<br>><br>> \newxyColor{lightred}{0.7}{red}{}<br><br>That 'red' is wrong.<br>That slot is for a color model, such as rgb, gray, cmyk.<br><br>You want:<br><br> \newxyColor{lightred}{0.7 0. 0.}{rgb}{}<br><br>
But that won't be a light red, it is darker<br>than full-on red: 1 0 0 setrgbcolor .<br><br>If you are thinking about 70% red, then<br>better would be:<br><br> \newxyColor{lightred}{1.0 0.3 0.3}{rgb}{}<br><br>or<br>
<br> \newxyColor{lightred}{1.0 0.7 0.7}{rgb}{}<br><br>I doubt that either of these is actually what you want.<br>Perhaps this is better:<br><br> \newxyColor{lightred}{1.0 0.5 0.5}{rgb}{}</blockquote><div><br><br>Yes, it works. Thanks again. Meanwhile I have gotten pretty impressive results.
<br><br>Right now I am trying to draw a circle solidly filled with color but without a border. Was doing<br><br>\newxyColor{Nbackgrnd}{1 1 0.77}{rgb}{} % Neutral Background Color - Lighter Orange<br>...<br>(0,195)*+<30pc>[o**:Nbackgrnd]{ };
<br><br>but it still puts some outline around that circle. I thought without an [F] it was supposed not to frame it. Do you know what the right syntax is?<br><br>Also, I am drawing huge posters where I need extra thick outlines around some other object (for instance certain boxes) to make them more visible. The thicker option didn't work as I thought
<br><br> (0,-7)*+[F**:Nbackgrnd:thicker:<5pt>]{<br> X = \dots<br> };<br><br>BTW: That thicker option worked pretty good though with the curve command<br><br> { "O-KB-EF" ; "O-KB-G0" **[O_font][thicker][thicker][thicker]\crv{ (-90,-60) } ?>*\dir{>} };
<br><br>and placed just the right emphasis on these splines.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Joe<br> </div></div>