PSTRICKS: help wanted (SOLVED)

[Christophe Broult]

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>   >>>>> "Christophe.Broult" == Christophe Broult <broult at info.unicaen.fr> writes:
>   
>       Christophe.Broult> I've just tried an example from The LaTeX graphics companion with the
>       Christophe.Broult> latest version of the graphics and PSTricks packages and it doesn't
>       Christophe.Broult> produce the expected result. 
>   
>     Your file run correctly for me, of course using different versions of
>   software components (for instance dvips 5.72 and gs 4.03). If you
>   have yet an older release of gs than the 5.01 very recent one,
>   verify also the result with it.

The problem was due to an improper installation of the pstricks
package. I had installed the new version in a new directory and
despite the fact that I had added this new directory in the
environment variable DVIPSHEADERS, dvips was still reading the old
version. The error was due to the fact that I had inadvertently
inserted a leading colon in that variable which caused the default
search path to be inserted at that point ie

DVIPSHEADERS=:new-pstrick-version-dir:other-dirs

is equivalent to

DVIPSHEADERS=default-search-path:new-pstrick-version-dir:other-dirs

(A feature mentioned in the kpathsearth library documentation).

After removing that leading colon, everything was correct using
dvipsk 5.55a and Aladdin Ghostscript 5.01.

>   
>     P.S. As there are differences between your file and the LGC example,
>   I believe that you type it yourself. Don't forget that all
>   examples of LGC are 
>   freely available on CTAN (in CTAN/info/lgc) with the number
>   indicated in the margin (so yours is 4-6-32.ltx file).

Thank you for reminding me this. It was so easy to download all the
examples and now it's much faster to try things out.


Chris


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