[pstricks] DIA output and scaling (again)

[Dan Bolser]

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Herbert Voss wrote:

>On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Dan Bolser wrote:
>
>> `PSTricks' v97 patch 14  <1999/12/23> (tvz)
>>
>> *File List*
>> minimal.cls    2001/05/25 Standard LaTeX minimal class
>> pstricks.sty    1997/03/25 package wrapper for PSTricks pstricks.tex
>
>sorry, I just saw, that you should update PSTricks, otherwise
>the \scalebox macro isn't redefined (done by the latest pstricks.sty)

That is my problem :)

I didn't understand your previous solution because (as you say) the
\scalebox macro isn't redefined!

I will pass this information back to the dia-list mailing list :)

I just had a look at the results (after replacing all "\scalebox" with
"\psscalebox" in the dia output) and it looks great.

The 

\psset{unit=0.5} % Scaling

is much better looking than the 

    \scalebox{0.5}{
      \input{1d4x-1}
    }

Version (the latter dosn't apper to scale the fonts correctly.


However, I found the following code makes a scrambled diagram...

\listfiles

\documentclass{report}

\usepackage{ pstricks, lscape, graphicx }

%\psset{unit=0.5} % Scaling

\begin{document}

  \begin{landscape}
    
    \pscustom[unit=0.5]{
      \input{1d4x-1}
    }
    
    %\scalebox{0.5}{
    %  \input{1d4x-1}
    %}
    
    %\input{1d4x-1}

  \end{landscape}

\end{document}


Where "1d4x-1.tex" is the (modified) output from dia.

However this isn't a problem for me.

One last observation is that the following code also fails,

\listfiles

\documentclass{report}

\usepackage{ pstricks, lscape, graphicx }

%\psset{unit=0.5} % Scaling

\begin{document}

  \begin{landscape}
    
    %\pscustom[unit=0.5]{
    %  \input{1d4x-1}
    %}
    
    \scalebox{5cm}{%      Not sure why?
      \input{1d4x-1}
    }
    
    % or
    
    %\input{1d4x-1}

  \end{landscape}

\end{document}


Here is the output from running the above...


$ latex test
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
(test.tex
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
ngerman, i
talian, nohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/report.cls
Document Class: report 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/pstricks/latex/pstricks.sty
(/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/pstricks/generic/pstricks.tex
`PSTricks' v1.07  <2005/05/06> (tvz)
(/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/pstricks/generic/pstricks.con))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/color.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/color.cfg)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/dvips.def)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/dvipsnam.def)))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/lscape.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/graphics.cfg)))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)) (test.aux) (1d4x-1.tex)
! Missing = inserted for \ifdim.
<to be read again>
                   \p@
l.19     }
           
?
! Missing = inserted for \ifdim.
<to be read again>
                   \p@
l.19     }
           
?
! Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again>
                   \box
l.19     }
           
?
! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted).
<to be read again>
                   \box
l.19     }
           
?
[1] (test.aux)
 
 *File List*
  report.cls    2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
  size10.clo    2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX file (size option)
pstricks.sty    2004/05/12 v0.2l LaTeX wrapper for `PSTricks' (RN,HV)
pstricks.tex    2005/05/06 v1.07 `PSTricks' (tvz)
   color.sty    1999/02/16 v1.0i Standard LaTeX Color (DPC)
   color.cfg
   dvips.def    1999/02/16 v3.0i Driver-dependant file (DPC,SPQR)
dvipsnam.def    1999/02/16 v3.0i Driver-dependant file (DPC,SPQR)
  lscape.sty    2000/10/22 v3.01 Landscape Pages (DPC)
graphics.sty    2001/07/07 v1.0n Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
    trig.sty    1999/03/16 v1.09 sin cos tan (DPC)
graphics.cfg
graphicx.sty    1999/02/16 v1.0f Enhanced LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
  keyval.sty    1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
  1d4x-1.tex
 ***********
 
 )
Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 9756 bytes).
Transcript written on test.log.



Final (dumb) question... I see the pstricks-add package at CTAN, should I
install this too? Why isn't it a part of the regular pstricks package?

How should I generate the documents for the pstricks package? (I am not
very familiar with the 'underbelly' of tex (so far it just works))

Thanks very much for your help,

Dan.