[XeTeX] How to load pstricks?

[Tobias Schoel]

Hi,

PSTricks uses PostScript to achieve its goals. It needs a driver, that 
understands these PostScript commands. XeTeX uses drivers, which produce 
PDF-Output and probably don't understand PostScript commands.

I propose using TikZ/pgf, which is designed for pdf-output, but which 
can also produce ps-output. If you need to use PSTricks (e.g. for the 
additional packages) you need to look deeper into the drivers (or just 
wait for better answer on this list. I think, it won't take long.)

bye

Toscho

Am 01.02.2011 12:27, schrieb Sven Siegmund:
> Hello,
>
> I use XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9997.4 (MiKTeX 2.9) on Windows XP
> SP3 and get an error when trying to load the pstricks package. This
> minimal example
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{pstricks}
> \begin{document}
> \end{document}
>
> produces:
> -------------
> LaTeX2e<2009/09/24>
> Babel<v3.8l>  and hyphenation patterns for english, afrikaans, ancientgreek, ar
> abic, armenian, assamese, basque, bengali, bokmal, bulgarian, catalan, coptic,
> croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, ga
> lician, german, german-x-2009-06-19, greek, gujarati, hindi, hungarian, iceland
> ic, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, kannada, kurmanji, lao, latin, lat
> vian, lithuanian, malayalam, marathi, mongolian, mongolianlmc, monogreek, ngerm
> an, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, nynorsk, oriya, panjabi, pinyin, polish, portuguese,
> romanian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, swis
> sgerman, tamil, telugu, turkish, turkmen, ukenglish, ukrainian, uppersorbian, u
> senglishmax, welsh, loaded.
> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\article.cls"
> Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\size10.clo"))
> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\pstricks\pstricks.sty"
> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\pstricks\pstricks.tex"
> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\xkeyval\pst-xkey.tex"
> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\xkeyval\xkeyval.sty"
> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\xkeyval\xkeyval.tex"
> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\xkeyval\keyval.tex"))))
> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\pstricks\pst-fp.tex"
> `pst-fp' v0.05, 2010/01/17 (hv))
> `PSTricks' v2.15<2010/11/25>  (tvz)
> ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\xelatex\xetex-pstricks\pstricks.con"
> ! I can't find file `xdvipdfmx.cfg'.
> l.6 \input xdvipdfmx.cfg
>
> Please type another input file name:
> --------
>
> I have found that there was an issue with this in MiKTeX 2.8 and that
> is was just a strange ending (*.cfg vs. *.con) or something like that
> (http://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2010-February/024812.html,
> http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.text.tex/2010-03/msg00619.html)
> and a small edit in the appropriate files could fix this.
>
> However, this no longer seems to be the case.My installment of MiKTeX
> has c:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\xetex\xetex-pstricks\pstricks.con
> which is a wrapper to deal exactly with this kind of problem. So I
> don't understand why am I getting this error.
>
> Cay you help me with that?
>
> TIA,
>
> S.
>
>
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