[pstricks] PDFLatEX and PSTricks

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Renato De Leone writes:
 > 
 > This is probably a very stupid question. I would like to produce a screen 
 > and a paper version of some notes using pdfscreen. Can I use pstricks 
 > inside? What I really need is pdftricks.
 > Is such a beast around?

in a word, no. pstricks uses PostScript arithmetic, which isnt in
PDF. there are all sorts of ways around it, but naively, you cannot
run existing pstricks files through pdftex.

sebastian