[pstricks] First time trouble with PSTricks

[Michael S Cloud]

Thanks Mathias and Herbert!

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> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:42:03 -0400
> From: mathias legrand <legrand.mathias at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [pstricks]  First time trouble with PSTricks
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> > I've just started using Latex, using the MikTex package, and 
> I've run into a snag using PSTricks.  The long and short of it is 
> that merely adding the line \usepackage{pstricks} or 
> \usepackage{pst-all} causes compilation to fail.  I'm adding this 
> line in the header after \documentclass{article} and before 
> \begin{document} There is also a statement \usepackage{graphicx} 
> before the pstricks statement but removing this doesn't seem to 
> change the story.
> > The error messages that seem relevent are: ("C:\Program Files 
> (x86) \MiKTeX 2.8\tex\generic\pstricks\pst-fp.tex")pdflatex.exe: 
> GUI framework cannot be initialized
> > then some bibtex messages then: Couldn't find input index file: 
> directory\filename or directory\filename.idx
> > I'm just wondering if anyone has seen this and if they know what 
> the problem might be.
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Mike
> 
> Mike,
> 
> it looks like you are compiling you latex source with pdflatex 
> which is 
> not compatible with pstricks. Compile again with latex, then dvips 
> and 
> then ps2pdf to get the final pdf file.
> 
> Also, you may want to have a look at the following document:
> 
> ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/graphics/pstricks/scripts/pst2pdf/pst2pdf-
> doc.pdf
> 
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> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:52:42 +0200
> From: Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss at FU-Berlin.DE>
> To: Graphics with PSTricks <pstricks at tug.org>
> Subject: Re: [pstricks] First time trouble with PSTricks
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> Am 19.04.2011 03:12, schrieb Michael S Cloud:
> 
> >     I've just started using Latex, using the MikTex package, and 
> I've run into a snag using PSTricks.  The long and short of it is 
> that merely adding the line \usepackage{pstricks} or 
> \usepackage{pst-all} causes compilation to fail.  I'm adding this 
> line in the header after \documentclass{article} and before 
> \begin{document} There is also a statement \usepackage{graphicx} 
> before the pstricks statement but removing this doesn't seem to 
> change the story.
> >
> >     The error messages that seem relevent are:
> >
> > ("C:\Program Files (x86) \MiKTeX 2.8\tex\generic\pstricks\pst-
> fp.tex")pdflatex.exe: GUI framework cannot be initialized
> >
> > then some bibtex messages
> 
> A problem with your setup values, read the first topic in:
> http://www.miktex.org/2.8/issues
> 
> Herbert
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