[XeTeX] PSTricks tricks...

[snvv]

Hello and sorry that I don't give a direct answer to your question but if you 
like to use xetex might be worth considering the pdf-tikz instead of 
pstricks. It is almost as powerful as pstricks and 100% compatible with xetex 
since it produces pdf output.
Regards
snvv  

 
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 22:36:12 John Was wrote:
> Dear All
>
> I've mentioned unexplained problems with PSTricks in XeTeX before, but here
> is a new one which might at least intrigue or amuse even if no solution
> suggests itself.
>
> I achieve the attached p13.pdf in XeTeX (TeXLive distribution on a Windows
> XP platform) by \input-ing the attached short PSTricks code
> desmetlines1.TEX.
>
> And I achieve p.14.pdf by \input-ing desmetlines2.TEX.
>
> But page 14 only works if I suppress the \input of desmetlines1.TeX on page
> 13.  If I keep the line
>
> \input Desmetlines1.TEX
>
> on page 13 then I get the attached pp13-14.pdf, which, incredibly, ignores
> the line
>
> \input desmetlines2.TEX
>
> and instead gives me an unwanted repeat of the lines for page 13.
>
> What's more, if I put any PSTricks command on any subsequent page of the
> file, that command is ignored and instead I get a repeat of the lines
> generated by desmetlines1.TeX.
>
> So it seems that once I've done some PSTricks stuff at one point in the
> file, I'm being prevented from doing any PSTricks stuff anywhere else in
> the file - invoking a PSTricks command simply causes it to remember the
> lines it drew the first time and reproduce them on the page.
>
> I hope this will be sorted out by the time of the 2008 TeXLive
> distribution!  But in the meantime if anyone can suggest a command to flush
> out the driver's memory of its first PSTricks lines, that would be useful. 
> In this particular case, I've had to do a forced \vfill\eject between the
> pages because of the need for a large vertical list that can't be split
> because of the long vertical line.  If there is something I could do before
> \vfill\eject to flush out this unwanted code and allow me to use PSTricks
> normally on a subsequent page, that would be ideal (well, not ideal but it
> would get me out of the fiddle of having to extract a correct version of
> page 13 and remember to substitute it for the erroneous version of that
> page (lacking the lines) that I have to create when rerunning XeTeX to
> create a correct page 14).
>
> Best
>
>
> John
>
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