[XeTeX] How to load pstricks?

[Sven Siegmund]

Thanks for the info, Toscho, but I have been using pstricks for
certain things and my documents could always compile (by xelatex)
seamlessly in Miktex 2.7. I knew that pstricks is essentially designed
for dvi output compilers, but was glad that it actually works with
xelatex as well, to my surprise. Just recently I upgraded to Miktex
2.9 and when I tried to recompile my documents which use pstricks I
got into this.

As Ulrike pointed out, this has nothing to do with XeTeX, it is a
Miktex-specific packaging bug and can be currently solved by
uninstalling and reinstaling the pstricks package.

Regards,

S.

On 1 February 2011 13:10, Tobias Schoel <liesdiedatei at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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