[pstricks] Problems compiling a DVI file

[Rupert McCallum]

Yes, thanks, this worked.

--- "Dougherty, Michael" <michael.dougherty at swosu.edu> wrote:

> I don't know about WinEdit but if you get Ghostscript (I think) you
> have a command-line tool that will make good PDF files, at least in
> Linux, but Ghostscript can be had for Windows as well.  Once
> installed, in a command line shell (C>: or whatever) in the directory
> of your LaTeX (.tex) file, you type
> dvips -o outputfilename.ps dvifilename.dvi
> to make a Postscript file, and from there you have
> ps2pdf outputfilename.ps otheroutputfilename.pdf
> where if you leave off the last argument it just converts
> outputfilename.ps to the same name but with .pdf instead of .ps.
> 
> I'm a little hazy on the details, but those are the commands so if
> you can find them for Windows you can make it work.
> 
> The point of PsTricks is to use the power of Postscript, but if you
> go from a LaTeX file to a .pdf file directory you are bypassing that,
> so you want to have a .ps file in there to carry all that along.
> 
> I think with Ghostrscript (also look up Ghostview, gv) you can also,
> with some help, print the Postscript file directly, but that might
> mean looking up and configuring printer drivers.  Once you have a PDF
> then Acrobat Reader will let you print.
> 
> Sorry I'm a little hazy, but that should point you in the right
> direction.
> 
> --Mike D.
> 
> PS:  You might also try TexnicCenter.  It has bugs, but some die-hard
> Linux users have gone to it and mostly stuck with it. 
> http://www.toolscenter.org/
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pstricks-bounces at tug.org on behalf of Rupert McCallum
> Sent: Mon 3/24/2008 7:05 AM
> To: pstricks at tug.org
> Subject: [pstricks] Problems compiling a DVI file
>  
> I am working on a LaTeX file in WinEdit in which I use pstricks to
> make
> some diagrams. In the DVI file they show up okay but in the PDF file
> they come out wrong. They consist of points and lines but the lines
> do
> not show up. I am not sure how to go about solving this problem. Does
> anyone have any suggestions how I could find out what's wrong?
> 
> 
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