[pstricks] A problem with "pstricks.tex"

Zhong rizhong at gmail.com
Mon Jul 4 06:28:31 CEST 2005


Dear All:

I am using MikTex to draw a network graph. 
But there is a limit that the diameter of a circle cannot be larger than 40 pt.
So I want to use the pstricks package.

I am using the Windows 2000 system, and a WinEdt + Miktex + gstools package,
There are all installed under the D:\CTEX directory.
I have downloaded "teTeX-texmf-1.0.tar.gz" file from TUG and copied the 
"pstricks"  directory to "D:\CTEX\MiKTeX\LocalTeXMF\tex\latex", 
I also copied the  "pstricks(.pro)"  directory to
"D:\CTEX\MiKTeX\LocalTeXMF\dvips".

Then I tried a sample file with "\usepackage{pstcol}" in the header by WinEdt,
%==================
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pstcol}
\begin{document}
\begin{pspicture}(0,0)(14,13)
\pscircle[linewidth=1pt](5.8,5.8){5.7}
\end{pspicture}
\end{document}
%==================

the Latex compiler returned the following information:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (MiKTeX 2)
(test.tex
LaTeX2e <2000/06/01>
Babel <v3.6Z> and hyphenation patterns for english, french, german, ngerman, du
mylang, nohyphenation, loaded.
(D:\CTEX\MiKTeX\TeXMF\tex\latex\base\article.cls
Document Class: article 2000/05/19 v1.4b Standard LaTeX document class
(D:\CTEX\MiKTeX\TeXMF\tex\latex\base\size10.clo))
(D:\CTEX\MiKTeX\TeXMF\tex\latex\graphics\pstcol.sty
(D:\CTEX\MiKTeX\LocalTeXMF\tex\latex\pstricks\pstricks.sty
! I can't find file `pstricks.tex'.
l.2 \input pstricks.tex

Please type another input file name:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

So I input D:\CTEX\MiKTeX\LocalTeXMF\tex\latex\pstricks\pstricks.tex,
it continued as..
=========================================================
Please type another input file name: D:\CTEX\MiKTeX\LocalTeXMF\tex\latex\pstrick
s\pstricks.tex
(D:\CTEX\MiKTeX\LocalTeXMF\tex\latex\pstricks\pstricks.tex
`PSTricks' v97 patch 10  <1999/03/24> (tvz)
! I can't find file `pstricks.con'.
l.139 \input pstricks.con

Please type another input file name:
=========================================================


Then I input D:\CTEX\MiKTeX\LocalTeXMF\tex\latex\pstricks\pstricks.con
it continued as..
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(D:\CTEX\MiKTeX\LocalTeXMF\tex\latex\pstricks\pstricks.con)))
(D:\CTEX\MiKTeX\TeXMF\tex\latex\graphics\color.sty
(D:\CTEX\MiKTeX\TeXMF\tex\latex\miktex\color.cfg)
(D:\CTEX\MiKTeX\TeXMF\tex\latex\graphics\dvips.def)
(D:\CTEX\MiKTeX\TeXMF\tex\latex\graphics\dvipsnam.def))) (testpstricks.aux)
Overfull \hbox (68.33841pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 13--14
[][][]
[1] (testpstricks.aux) )
(see the transcript file for additional information)
Output written on testpstricks.dvi (1 page, 536 bytes).
Transcript written on testpstricks.log.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


But the Yap previewer shows nothing. And when I run the "dvi2ps",
the following message shows:
=========================================================
This is dvips(k) 5.86 Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2005.07.04:1318' -> manetg82.ps
DVIPS.EXE: ! Couldn't find header file pstricks.pro
=========================================================


So I have two questions here and hope you can teach me how to solve them:
1,  How can I make the WinEdt tool do not ask me such info:
" ! I can't find file `pstricks.tex'. 
l.2 \input pstricks.tex
Please type another input file name: "

2 How can I get the picture I want.

Best Regards
Zhong




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