[fptex] pdftricks

[Michael Hallgren]

<blush> I had forgotten to remove "manual lines from within pdfpic".
Removing
them, now it compiles -- but no graphics in the resulting PDF file. Removing
the system(rm ..) line from pdftricks.sty, and inspecting the generated
files
show that all seems to be working fine up until the eps->pdf conversion
step.

mh


>
> >
> >
> > > It looks like pdftricks is attempting to touch into a hardcoded /tmp
> > > directory (that happens to be around on UNIX systems):
> >
> > > \def\tmpfile{/tmp/w18-test-\the\year\the\month\the\day\the\time}
> > > \immediate\write18{touch \tmpfile}
> >
> > Well, this is awful...
> >
>
>
> Yup :)
>
>
> > > Is there someplace a Windows version around? (I'm constrained to use
> > > Windows in part of my working environment.)
> >
> > So, an awful solution is to create a \tmp directory in your current
> > drive.
>
> Well, I did the other way around: modified the pdftricks.sty file:
>
> \def\tmpfile{/TEMP/w18-test-\the\year\the\month\the\day\the\time}
> \immediate\write18{touch \tmpfile}
>
> so, equally ugly (or worse?:) using a Windows standard (?) temp directory.
>
> Now, this helps us a tiny bit on our way, 'cause:
>
> system(touch /TEMP/w18-test-2003611809)...executed.
>
>
>
> Package pdftricks Warning: ****************************************
> (pdftricks)                Using \write 18 capability
> (pdftricks)                for producing PDF-figures.
> (pdftricks)                ****************************************.
>
> However, problems remain:
>
> ) Opening PDFStream=tricks-fig1.texThis is TeX, Version 3.14159
> (Web2c 7.3.7x)
> \write18 enabled.
> rm: tricks-fig1.dvi: No such file or directory
> rm: tricks-fig1.eps: No such file or directory
>
>
> Package pdftricks Warning: ******************************************
> (pdftricks)                Some PDF files of images were not found.
> (pdftricks)                Run the script `pst2pdf' before the next
> (pdftricks)                run of pdfLaTeX
> (pdftricks)                ******************************************.
>
> Appears the "background processing" is messing up..
>
> mh
>
>
> >
> > The right solution would be to  allow TeX to  getenv("TEMP") and use it,
> > or hack kpathsea  to provide some temp file.   But that requires to  add
> > primitives.
> >
> > Fabrice
> >
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