[XeTeX] PSTricks and XeTeX problem in Ubuntu Linux

[John Was]

In case it is of any relevance, I have had trouble with some PSTricks commands, though others work.  \rput and \psscalebox are among those that seem to work without any problems, but line-drawing commands are unpredictable:  a single line between two pieces of text seems to work OK, but another line on the same page will fail, and (curiously) sometimes a line that is given correctly on one page will reappear at the same co-ordinates on the next page.   The latter phenomenon seems to occur whenever there is another line command on that page:  the actual command is ignored but the command on the preceding page seems to be invoked for no apparent reason.  

In all cases the file compiles correctly and no errors are reported.

I am hoping that all this will be sorted out in the 2008 distribution!


John

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: VAFA KHALIGHI 
  To: xetex at tug.org ; vafa.khalighi at students.mq.edu.au 
  Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 1:16 PM
  Subject: [XeTeX] PSTricks and XeTeX problem in Ubuntu Linux


  I had installed texlive-full, then I compiled the latest version of XeTeX and installed it (XeTeX0.999.0 and xdvipdfmx0.7), then I copied all the folders and files in TRUNK/texmf in the relevent texlive directoris (then did texhash), but still can not use pstricks, I mean I can use it but there is no pstricks in the output, I tried


  \documentclass{article}
  \usepackage{pstricks}
  \begin{document}
  \begin{pspicture}(0,0)(2,2)
  \psline(0,0)(1,1)
  \end{pspicture}


  and this is the log by running xelatex -nopdf test 

  (where test.tex is the name of the input file)

  xelatex: unrecognized option `-nopdf'
  This is XeTeXk, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.999.0 (Web2C 7.5.6)
   %&-line parsing enabled.
  entering extended mode
  (./test.tex
  LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
  Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
  yphenation, arabic, farsi, croatian, ukrainian, russian, bulgarian, czech, slov
  ak, danish, dutch, finnish, basque, french, german, ngerman, ibycus, greek, mon
  ogreek, ancientgreek, hungarian, italian, latin, mongolian, norsk, icelandic, i
  nterlingua, turkish, coptic, romanian, welsh, serbian, slovenian, estonian, esp
  eranto, uppersorbian, indonesian, polish, portuguese, spanish, catalan, galicia
  n, swedish, ukenglish, loaded.
  (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex
  /latex/base/article.cls
  Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
  (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
  (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/pstricks/pstricks.sty
  (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/pstricks/pstricks.tex
  `PSTricks' v1.15  <2006/12/22> (tvz)
  (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/xelatex/xetex-pstricks/pstricks.con
  (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/generic/xetex-pstricks/xetex-pstricks.con))
  (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/xelatex/xetex-pstricks/pstricks.con
  (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/generic/xetex-pstricks/xetex-pstricks.con)))
  (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/xcolor/xcolor.sty
  (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/xelatex/graphics/color.cfg)
  (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/xelatex/graphics/xetex.def))) (./test.aux) [1]
  (./test.aux)
  ** WARNING ** Could not open config file "dvipdfmx.cfg".
  ** WARNING ** Image format conversion for PSTricks failed.
  ** WARNING ** Interpreting special command pst: (ps:) failed.
  ** WARNING ** >> at page="1" position="(162.273, 660.325)" (in PDF)
  ** WARNING ** >> xxx "pst: tx at Dict begin STP newpath 0.8 SLW 0  setgray  /ArrowA { mo"
   )
  Output written on test.pdf (1 page).
  Transcript written on test.log.


  So did I miss anything that  I ought to do?


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  ^^^^^ ^^^^^ 


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