[pstricks] pdflatex question

[Iosif Pinelis]

Thank you very much Andrzej. -- I.P.

Andrzej J. Maciejewski wrote:

> Iosif,
> the problem is that to produce a pdf file from latex there are at 
> least two ways:
> the one you described and the other is to run pdflatex (in the office 
> they know only the last one). But having a pstricks code in latex  
> file you cannot run pdflatex on it.
> Thus, you can remove pictures from your paper and send them separately 
> as ps files
> or you can make ps files with figures and insert them to your file 
> using graphics package.
> -Andrzej
>
> On 3/15/07, *Iosif Pinelis* <ipinelis at mtu.edu 
> <mailto:ipinelis at mtu.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Sorry for a wrong subject of my previous message!
>
>     Iosif Pinelis wrote:
>
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > I have received a message from the editorial assistant of a journal,
>     > saying
>     >
>     >
>     >> Would you know how I can successfully run PDFLaTeX on your
>     file? The
>     >> problem is the pspictures. I need PDFLaTex to generate the
>     JIPAM files.
>     >
>     >
>     > Apparently the problem is with pictures like this:
>     >
>     > \usepackage{pstricks}
>     >
>     > %% My definition
>     > \newcommand{\mvec}[1]{\mbox{\bfseries\itshape #1}}
>     > \renewcommand{\u}{\,%
>     > \psset{unit=.7pt}
>     > \begin{pspicture}(0,0)(9,10)%(10,20)
>     > %\psset{unit=1pt}
>     > \psline[linewidth=.3pt,origin={0,1}]{-}(0,0)(2,5)(7,5)(9,10)
>     > \end{pspicture}
>     >
>     > I use either TeXnicCenter to produce pdf files on Windows (without
>     > knowing how the black box works) or, on Linux, dvips -o followed by
>     > ps2pdf. I don't use pdflatex explicitly. Could you please tell
>     me what
>     > the problem may be and how to solve it? Thank you.
>     >
>     > Iosif Pinelis
>
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