[pdftex] pdftricks problem in \parbox?

[Troy Goodson]

On Friday, May 2, 2003, at 12:02  PM, Radhakrishnan CV wrote:
>>>>>> "Troy" == Troy Goodson <Troy.D.Goodson at jpl.nasa.gov> writes:
>
>     Troy> I tried to wrap a \begin{pdfpic} ... \end{pdfpic} in a
>     Troy> \parbox (or even an \fbox}, but I get an error (see below).
>     Troy> Also, the example-fig1.tex file is empty.
>
> pdftricks provides this facility even now. It seems that you haven't
> read the manual (see p. 7 of the manual).
>
> \configure[pdfgraphic][width=<dimen>,     % width
>                        linecolor=<color>, % color of the rule
>                        linewidth=<dimmen>,% width of rule
>                        background=<color>,% background color
>                        rulesep=<dimen>]   % fboxsep
> Best.
>
> Radhakrishnan

I did read the manual, but I'm not savvy enough to understand it.  I 
didn't realize that the \configure[pdfgraphic] command would give me a 
\parbox.

I want the pdftricks graphic side-by-side with an itemized list on the 
left-hand side of the page.  Before using pdftricks, I was doing this 
with \parbox commands.  With pdftricks, I still can't seem to get it to 
work.

After some trial and error, it seems that the \configure[pdfgraphic] 
command goes before the \begin{document} command.  My first thought was 
to put it after the \begin{pdfpic} command, but that doesn't seem to 
work.

Anyway, my revised pdfLaTeX code is below.  The \configure command 
seems to work, but the graphic ends up _after_ the itemized list  (in 
this example, on page 2!).  How can I get them to be side-by-side ?


---------example.tex------------

\documentclass[landscape]{slides}

\usepackage{ifthen}
\usepackage{pdftricks}

\begin{psinputs}
\usepackage{pstricks}	
\usepackage{ifthen}
  \usepackage{pst-eps}
  \usepackage{pst-plot}
  \usepackage{pst-node}
  \usepackage{pstcol}
\end{psinputs}

% workaound for pdftricks with slides
\def\BeforeIncludedStream
    {\stepcounter{psfig}\xdef\PDFCutFile{\PDFTfigname.tex}%
     \message{Opening PDFStream=\PDFCutFile}%
     \immediate\openout\PDFStream=\PDFCutFile
     \immediate\write\PDFStream{\string\documentclass{slides}}
     \immediate\write\PDFStream{\string\input\space tmp.inputs}
     \immediate\write\PDFStream{\string\pagestyle{empty}}
     \immediate\write\PDFStream{\string\usepackage{amssymb,amsbsy}}
     \immediate\write\PDFStream{\string\begin{document}}
     \let\ThisStream\WriteStreamLine}

\configure[pdfgraphic][width=2in,     % width
                        linecolor=blue, % just a test
                        linewidth=1pt, % width of rule
                        background=red,% just a test
                        rulesep=1pt]   % fboxsep
\begin{document}

\begin{slide}

\parbox{.4\linewidth}{
\begin{itemize}
  \item text1
  \item text2
  \item text3
  \item text4
\end{itemize}
}
\hfill
\vrule

\begin{pdfpic}
\newcommand{\elang}{ 123 }
\ifthenelse{ \elang > 90  }
     {  \newcommand{ \flipptg}{-1}   }
     {  \newcommand{ \flipptg}{ 1}   }
\fbox{
\begin{pspicture}(-.2,-.5)(5,8.5)
    \rput(1,0){\rnode{EAR}{\small Earth}}
    \rput(1,4){ \rnode{SC}{\small S/C} }
    \rput{ \elang }(1,4){
      \fbox{
      \begin{pspicture}(-1,-1)(1,1)
      \rput(0,-3){ \fbox{
          \begin{pspicture}(-1,-1)(1,1)
          \rput{-90}(0,0) {\rnode{DV}{}}
          \rput{-90}(0,-1){\rnode{MAG}{}}
          \rput( \flipptg ,0){\rnode{PTG}{}}
          \end{pspicture}
          } }
      \end{pspicture}
      }
     }
    \ncline{->}{SC}{DV}
    \ncLine{->}{DV}{MAG}
    \ncline{->}{DV}{PTG}
    \ncangle[angleA=90,angleB=180,linestyle=dashed]{EAR}{MAG}
    \ncangle[angleA=90,angleB=180,linestyle=dashed]{EAR}{DV}
    \ncangle[angleA=90,angleB=180,linestyle=dashed]{EAR}{PTG}
    \ncline{SC}{EAR}
\end{pspicture}
}
\end{pdfpic}

\end{slide}
\end{document}