[OS X TeX] please help me with pdftricks
Troy Goodson
Troy.D.Goodson at jpl.nasa.gov
Tue Sep 17 00:16:45 CEST 2002
I thought I try out pdftricks. I went over to
<http://www.lyx.org/help/pdf/pdftricks.php> and copied the example on
that page (it's kinda long so I won't list it here)
{short story: it didn't work, I don't know why, and I'm hoping
somewhere here might help me. the following is some info on what
happened...}
I saved it in a file named "pdftricks_example.tex"
I went into Terminal and typed
pdflatex -shell-escape pdftricks_example.tex
{Problem is, the resulting "pdftricks_example.pdf" doesn't seem to
include the graphic created with pdftricks. I can open
"pdftricks_example-fig1.eps.pdf" with Preview and I see it there. }
My log includes
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211 (Web2C 7.3.7x)
...[snip]
(pdftricks) Using \write 18 capability
(pdftricks) for producing PDF-figures.
... [snip]
Opening PDFStream=pdftricks_example-fig1.texThis is TeX, Version
3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.7x)
This is dvips(k) 5.90a Copyright 2002 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2002.09.16:1454' -> pdftricks_example-fig1.eps
<tex.pro><alt-rule.pro><texc.pro><pstricks.pro><pst-dots.pro><special.pro>.
[1]
... [snip]
Output written on pdftricks_example.pdf (1 page, 10720 bytes).
Transcript written on pdftricks_example.log.
I ended up with these files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 tdg staff 11294 Sep 16 14:54 pdftricks_example.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 tdg staff 10720 Sep 16 14:54 pdftricks_example.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 tdg staff 334 Sep 16 14:54 pdftricks_example.aux
-rw-r--r-- 1 tdg staff 771 Sep 16 14:54 pdftricks_example-fig1.eps.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 tdg staff 667 Sep 16 14:54 pdftricks_example-fig1.tex
-rw-r--r-- 1 tdg staff 22 Sep 16 14:54 tmp.inputs
-rw-r--r-- 1 tdg staff 5148 Sep 16 14:54 pdftricks_example.tex
Problem is, "pdftricks_example.pdf" doesn't seem to include the
graphic created with pdftricks. I can open
"pdftricks_example-fig1.eps.pdf" with Preview and I see it there.
** Any ideas as to what went wrong?
** Also, if I try and run this in TeXShop, I get this message:
(pdftricks) No \write 18 capability.
(pdftricks) You'll have to run a script by yourself!
what's up here? I thought I could avoid this with a
~/Library/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf, containing "shell_escape = t"
** Finally, if the personal texmf.cnf won't work, does anyone a
script I can use in TeXShop as my "personal script" that will handle
this?
Thanks,
Troy.
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