[pstricks] Pstricks not working

[Herbert Voss]

Am 18.09.2010 19:21, schrieb hh-brasil at bol.com.br:

> Of course I had another look why things did not work (e.g. [97]pstricks). The reason was evident: there was a pstricks.sty file in the folder and of course that was always chosen first.
> Getting rid of it allowed then \usepackage[97]{pstricks}. 
> 
> But the error that drawing commands were not possible, was until then true.
> A pstricks-file with only non-drawing-commands did run and placed text 
> in the right position - but once a psline command was additioned, the whole page
> went down (but the TeX run did not finish)

Burn the iso from the TexLive 2000 on one CD and then install it
or run it as live system and everything should be ok.
However, to run the option 97 successfully, you need
the files pstricks.sty, pstricks97.tex|pro and pst-dots97.pro,
all available from http://texnik.dante.de

Herbert