[texhax] Question

[Brandon Kuczenski]

On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, Tom Schneider wrote:

> latex z
> dvips z
> ps2pdf z.ps
> open z.pdf
>
> But if I
>
> open z.tex
>
> and Typeset it in TexShop (version 2.18-svn) on my Mac OSX 10.6.2, I
> get an error:

Is it possible TexShop is trying to skip the postscript stage?  _PS_tricks 
requires postscript (pdflatex doesn't work).

best,
Brandon