pstricks

[Daniele Catanzaro]

Dear Herbert (and Lars),

Thanks very much: the command works great and the modification of dvipdfmx.cfg makes things much smoother!
I hope not to have to make the change at each update proposed by the TeX Live Utility…

Also, I am afraid that other LateX users may experience this issue as well, so perhaps it would be necessary to find a way to patch it definitely. 

Have a nice evening!

Daniele





> On 22 Apr 2021, at 17:18, Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss at fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Am 22.04.21 um 12:07 schrieb Daniele Catanzaro:
>> I am a mac user, running Mac OS Big Sur 11.3.
>> 
>> After having updated to MacTex 2021 I am experiencing troubles when compiling with pstricks.
>> In particular, the compilation with xelatex does not provide any specific error, but strangely enough, NO graph is showing in the output pdf.
>> 
>> Even more strange, all is fine instead when compiling using MacTex 2020 version.
>> 
>> Do you have any clue of what it is happening?
> 
> 
> The xdvipdfmx.cfg changed the parameters for ghostscript, which makes it impossible
> to use xelatex in the usual way as in TL 2020. You can run
> 
> xelatex -output-driver="xdvipdfmx -i dvipdfmx-unsafe.cfg -q -E"  <file>.tex
> 
> which is not a nice solution.
> However, the new file dvipdfmx-unsafe.cfg which is in .../texmf-dist/dvipdfmx/
> has only one important line:
> D  "rungs -q -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY -dNOSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dEPSCrop -sPAPERSIZE=a ...
> 
> If you are tired of using the above xelatex call then replace the
> line the main config file dvipdfmx.cfg, which is in the same directory,
> with the above one.
> 
> 
> Herbert
>