Powerdot problem.

[Herbert Voss]

Am 01.11.24 um 02:05 schrieb Rolf Turner:
> It is used in pstricks.pro
> powerdot is based on PSTricks.
> Thanks for this, but I'm still totally bewildered.  I have
> located the file pstricks.pro in
>
>      /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pstricks
>

That is the wrong directory. Your pro-file  should be in the local part
(I have always two directories, one for the TL and one for my
personal files)

voss>~:$ kpsewhich -all pstricks.pro
/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/dvips/pstricks.pro
/usr/local/texlive/2024/texmf-dist/dvips/pstricks/pstricks.pro

The other generic files should be in

voss>~:$ kpsewhich -all pstricks.tex
/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/generic/pstricks/pstricks.tex
/usr/local/texlive/2024/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pstricks/pstricks.tex

and the latex file into

voss>~:$ kpsewhich -all pstricks.sty
/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/pstricks/pstricks.sty
/usr/local/texlive/2024/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pstricks/pstricks.sty

However, installing a completely new TeXLive 2024 version
would make sense.

Herbert




> But now what do I do?  Where/what is the "improved solution" that is
> referred to?
>
> Sorry for being a thicko, but I'm really out of my depth.
>
> I thought that perhaps I should update pstricks (2021 is a bit ancient)
> and to this end I downloaded the appropriate (???) zip archive from
> CTAN, unzipped it and put the  results in a local directory
> ~/Texstuff/pstricks.
>
> I did my best to make sure that the environment variable TEXINPUTS was
> set correctly so that the new version would be the one picked up.
>
> I then ran
>
>     latex demo
>     dvips demo
>     ps2pdf -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY -dNOSAFER demo.ps
>
> The same annoying warnings
>
>>> **** WARNING: .setopacityalpha is deprecated (as of 9.53.0) and will
>>> be removed in a future release
>>     **** See .setfillconstantalpha/.setalphaisshape for the improved
>> solution
> appeared.
>
> However I'm pretty sure that the new version of pstricks, from
> ~/Texstuff/pstricks, is NOT being used.  The screen output contained
>
>> (/home/rolf/Texstuff/pstricks/latex/pstricks.sty ...
> and
>
>> --- We are running latex or xelatex ---
>> (/home/rolf/Texstuff/pstricks/generic/pstricks.con) ...
> but when I searched the output for "pstricks.pro" I found only
>
>> </usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/dvips/pstricks/pstricks.pro>
> Can you (or anyone) give me any guidance.  I'm floundering and way out
> of my depth.  Please try to express things simply, and to give complete
> recipes.  Sorry for being demanding, but I really need help, expressed
> in a way that can be comprehended by someone like myself, who is a bit
> slow!!!
>
> cheers,
>
> Rolf
>