[XeTeX] Some problems with PSTricks

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:08:29 +1000 schrieb VAFA KHALIGHI:

> Ok, so let's say pst-fill and pst-text does not work. But I also experiened
> some problems with pst-calendar and pst-light3d

As a miktex user I can't currently test pstricks with xelatex. But as
far as I know it works more or less in this way:

xelatex is putting a lot of specials in the xdv-file, xdvipdfmx calls
ghostscript to convert the postscript parts in a pdf-image and then
xdvipdfmx inserts this pdf-image in the final pdf. 

So I would start tests with graphics inside a pspicture environment (and
its bounding box) and expect trouble with pstricks code which is mixed
with normal text.  That is I would expect similar restrictions as with
the preview package or pst-pdf. 

-- 
Ulrike Fischer