[pstricks] PDF output

[Alan Ristow]

Herbert Voss wrote:
> Hi all,
> attached is a little script which converts your PSTricks
> images to single eps and pdf images and then run pdflatex
> to create a pdf file of the document. Attached is a test suite,
> which works well. It was not tested with big documents and
> nested pspicture environments.

Interesting. I gave it a try under Windows XP with MiKTeX 2.6 and had 
some problems, though. It extracts the graphics and creates .pdf files 
without trouble, but after it does this the .eps files are no longer 
present as they are in your directory listing. Then when pdfLaTeX tries 
to compile the final document it gives me the following error:

! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> \test
                  -tmp-0
l.13 \includegraphics{./.\test-tmp-0}

I don't have time at the moment to take a closer look, but I might give 
it a try later in the day.

Incidentally, Herbert, what do you see as the advantage of this over 
pst-pdf? I have only recently begun experimenting with pst-pdf and the 
most obvious advantage to me is that PSTricks commands don't have to be 
surrounded with \begin{postscript}..\end{postscript}. It also creates 
individual graphics files rather than a single multi-page document, but 
that's a rather minor point (for me, anyway). Are there other things 
that I'm missing?

Alan