[OS X TeX] a problem with pdftricks

[Herb Schulz]

On 4/6/05 10:07 AM, "Sergei Mariev" <serguei.mariev at campus.lmu.de> wrote:

> ...
> and no pages of output. Here is the entire log:
> 
> 
> 
> This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11b-2.1 (Web2C 7.5.2)

Howdy,

Hmmm... It does look as though you have an older version of the system than
I have (latest TL2005).

> \write18 enabled.
> %&-line parsing enabled.
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/web2c/cp8bit.tcx)
> entering extended mode
> (./figure.tex{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg}
> LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
> Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, british, french, german,
> n
> german, greek, italian, latin, russian, spanish, nohyphenation, loaded.
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/oberdiek/ifpdf.sty)
> (/Users/sm/Library/texmf/tex/latex/NewPdftricks/pdftricks.sty
> 
> Package pdftricks Warning: ****************************************
> (pdftricks)                Package pdftricks v,1.16.2 loaded
> (pdftricks)                [psTricks support in PDF (CVR, ACL), processing
> chan
> ges (HS)]
> (pdftricks)                ****************************************.
> 
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/config/graphics.cfg)
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/pdftex.def)))
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/color.sty
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/config/color.cfg))
> 
> Package pdftricks Warning: ****************************************
> (pdftricks)                Using \write 18 capability
> (pdftricks)                for producing PDF-figures.
> (pdftricks)                ****************************************.
> 
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/misc/moreverb.sty
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/tools/verbatim.sty)))

So far so good.

> (./figure.aux
> 
> ! Package babel Error: You haven't defined the language english yet.
> 
> See the babel package documentation for explanation.
> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
> ...              
>                  
> l.3 \select at language{english}
>    

Was this the first run? The .aux file seems to already exist and there is a
small (unrelated?) problem.
                   
> ?
> ) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.tex
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/supp-mis.tex
> loading : Context Support Macros / Missing
> )
> loading : Context Support Macros / PDF

Now comes the processing of the figure-fig1.tex file using altpdflatex:

> ) Opening PDFStream=figure-fig1.tex### This is
> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/altpdflatex,
> Version $Revision: 2.15 $
> ### /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/latex figure-fig1
> This is e-TeXk, Version 3.141592-2.1 (Web2C 7.5.2)

The latest systems use pdfeTeX with the -dvi option to do the processing but
I'm not sure that makes any difference.

> %&-line parsing enabled.
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/web2c/cp8bit.tcx)
> entering extended mode
> ### /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/dvips -R
> -Poutline  -o /tmp/altpdflatex.3611-1112799591/figure-fig1.ps
> figure-fig1.dvi
> This is dvips(k) 5.94a Copyright 2003 Radical Eye Software
> (www.radicaleye.com)
> ' TeX output 2005.04.06:1659' ->
> /tmp/altpdflatex.3611-1112799591/figure-fig1.ps
> <texc.pro><pstricks.pro><pst-dots.pro><pst-node.pro><pst-eqdf.pro>
> <pst-text.pro><special.pro>. [1]
> ### ps2pdf13 /tmp/altpdflatex.3611-1112799591/figure-fig1.ps
> /tmp/altpdflatex.3611-1112799591/figure-fig1.pdf
> ### Copying/moving pdf file
> /tmp/altpdflatex.3611-1112799591/figure-fig1.pdf to figure-fig1.pdf
> ### Succesfully generated figure-fig1.dvi and figure-fig1.pdf

Ok... The figure-fig1.pdf file has been created and should now be cropped

> PDFCROP 1.5, 2004/06/24 - Copyright (c) 2002, 2004 by Heiko Oberdiek.
> ==> 1 pages written on `figure-fig1-crop.pdf'.
> 

Now it should be properly cropped.

> ! pdfTeX error (ext1): invalid image dimensions.
> <argument> ... page \GPT at page \fi {\Gin at base .pdf}
>                                                  \setbox \@tempboxa =\hbox ...
> l.29 \end{pdfpic}
>                
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on figure.log.
> 

Ok... You should have a generated figure-fig1.pdf file. Open it in TeXShop
(drag it onto the TeXShop icon in the Dock) and a Preview window should
open. The image should be closely cropped (i.e. You should see the image
against a white background and the ``page boundary'' with lots of gray
(outside the page). If you do NOT see that please send me your
figure-fig1.tex, tmp.inputs and figure-fig1.pdf file.

This all could be due to your older system. You might try moving that
pdftricks.sty file that I played with and let the system try using the
original. I changed the processing since the older version had some problems
getting the Bounding Box correct under certain circumstances.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)

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