[OS X Emacs] problems: LaTeX + dvips+ps2pdf

Win Treese treese at acm.org
Tue Mar 2 20:42:18 EST 2021


Hi, Roussanka. Thanks for the detailed report and the follow up on it. I’ll take a look at this for Aquamacs 3.6, especially if there’s a way to make it generally work better for most Aquamacs users. Unfortunately, LaTeX setup varies a lot on different systems!

Best,

- Win

> On Mar 1, 2021, at 4:21 PM, Roussanka Loukanova <rl.stpuu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Win,
> 
> After advices from the TeXShop list, in the same Thread, I get 
> 
> (1) the drawings that require pstricks look finley, by XeLaTeX, in one typeset run (+ BibTeX + latex, if needed) after having selected:
> 
> Aquamacs > Command > Use XeTeX engine
> Aquamacs > Command > TeXing Options > Generate PDF
> Aquamacs > Command > TeXing Options > DVI and PDF > dvips + ps2pdf
> 
> %% for Aquamacs at the end of the tex file for automatic (latex+dvi+ps2pdf) with XeLaTeX engine
> %%% Local Variables:
> %%% mode: latex
> %%% TeX-engine: xetex
> %%% TeX-master: t
> %%% End:
> 
> (2) but an option for the transparency doesn't go well, by the XeTeX output, and in the log:
>  %%%% WARNING: Transparency operations ignored - need to use -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY
> 
> I hope these can be preset in the upgrade of Aquamacs.
> -- 
> Best Regards,
> Roussanka
> 
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 11:49 PM Roussanka Loukanova <rl.stpuu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Win, Dear All,
> 
> I have some beamer presentations with drawings for which I use 
> \usepackage{pstricks}
> They require typesetting via:
> 
> Aquamacs > Command > TeXing Options > Generate PDF
> Aquamacs > Command > TeXing Options > DVI and PDF > dvips + ps2pdf
> 
> I used to typeset these presentations finely with Aquamacs, at least up to a certain time in 2020. Now the typesetting produces wrong slides:
> 
> All beamer boxes get  their shadows in black, and the headers of the theorem-like boxes are covered with black banners.  Below is a test file and its pdf on my MacBook Air, macOS Big Sur V.11.2.2, TeXLife 2020, with everything updated.
> 
> The same problem was by typesetting the files in TeXShop. I wrote to the TeXShop list:
> https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/
> Thread:
> [OS X TeX] TeX and DVI in beamer problem  
> https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/2021-February/057653.html
> 
> Herbert Schulz explained that the problem is in transparency with gs 9.53.3. Ghostscript version 9.51 and later (gs, ps2pdf) treat transparency differently.  A new option has to be passed to ps2pdf to allow transparency.
> 
> Herbert Schulzand helped by some specially developed engines, pointed in the Thread above. I downloaded them, installed, and now the typesetting goes finely in TeXShop. Because my drawings are large, you can try with the test file by Herbert Schulz, which I included in the above Thread too, together with the content of the problematic .log.
> 
> I hope you can fix that in Aquamacs, or perhaps find and tell what option and how to pass it to ps2pdf.
>  
> Best Regards,
> Roussanka
> 
> 
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