[OS X TeX] pdftricks

[Gerben Wierda]

I'll ad this tyo my distribution.

G

On 14 Nov 2004, at 18:57, Aaron Jackson wrote:

> The file works for me...
>
> On Nov 14, 2004, at 12:30 PM, Michael Kubovy wrote:
>>
>> <texc.pro><pstricks.pro><pst- 
>> dots.pro><texps.pro><special.pro><color.pro>.
>> <cmr10.pfb>[1]
>> sh: line 1: ps2eps: command not found
>
> The documentation for pdftricks sucks!  It took me a while to figure  
> this one out, but you need two additional programs to use pdftricks: a  
> shell script ps2eps and a c binary called bbox.  You can get them  
> from:
>
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/ps2eps/?action=/tex-archive/ 
> support/
>
> You have to compile the c program (the tar file comes with a binary  
> for macos, but I never use UNIX pre-compiled binaries), which is not a  
> problem if you installed Apple's dev tools (gcc -o bbox bbox.c).
>
> It would be nice if these were installed by default.  I suspect that  
> GW never uses pdftricks, so he is not aware of this "problem"...
>
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