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Vince McGarry vmcgarry at austin.rr.com
Fri Dec 3 21:43:58 EST 2004


Hi,

\multips is defined within pstricks.sty. There is no package, although there
may have been at one time. I use pstricks on a regular basis. It is my
favorite drawing program after trying xy-pic and metapost, both of which are
fine programs. I've found that I could get the kinds of drawing I want with
less work (at least for me) but of the same quality.

I have used pdftricks, but just a little. Most of my code is still in
pstricks and must be compiled using TeX and Ghostscript. I will probably
begin using pdftricks on a regular basis after I finish with a current
project that I began writing with pstricks to take advantage of the fine
microtype features of pdftex.
 
Vince McGarry
Austin Community College
Rio Grande Campus
1212 Rio Grande Street
Austin, TX  78701

Phone: (512)-223-3358
email: vince at austincc.edu
       vmcgarry at austin.rr.com
 

On 12/3/04 6:32 PM, "Aaron Jackson" <jackson at msrce.howard.edu> wrote:

> On second thought, I just did a google search and for multips.sty and
> got no results.  This makes me think it does not exist...  OK, I just
> ran the example without the line ``\usepackage{multips}'' and
> everything worked, although the result may not be what you are looking
> for.
> 
> On Dec 3, 2004, at 5:33 PM, Aaron Jackson wrote:
> 
>> Do you have multips.sty installed?  Try running from the command line
>> ``latex filename''.  You should get real error messages.  Pdftricks
>> does some round about processing, so you won't see any error messages
>> related to pstricks (this is why I use the ifpdf to make sure the doc
>> can be run through pdflatex and latex).
>> 
>> On Dec 3, 2004, at 3:51 PM, Google Kreme wrote:
>> 
>>> On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 15:34:49 -0500, Aaron Jackson
>>> <jackson at msrce.howard.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> If you have a current version of gwtex, this should work with both
>>>> latex and pdftatex.  Otherwise, you'll need to reinstall (old
>>>> versions
>>>> are missing bbox and ps2eps which are required for pdftricks to
>>>> work).
>>>> You will also need to get the multips package.  It doesn't seem to be
>>>> on my system...
>>> 
>>> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
>>> 
>>> % See the ``Article customise'' template for come common
>>> customisations
>>> \usepackage{ifpdf}
>>> \ifpdf
>>> \usepackage{pdftricks}
>>> \begin{psinputs}
>>> \fi
>>> \usepackage{pstricks}
>>> \usepackage{multips}
>>> \ifpdf
>>> \end{psinputs}
>>> \fi
>>> 
>>> 
>>> %%% BEGIN DOCUMENT
>>> \begin{document}
>>> 
>>> \ifpdf
>>> \begin{pdfdisplay}
>>> \fi
>>> \begin{pspicture}(1,1)
>>> \multips(0,0)(1.2,0){5}{\psframe(1,1)}
>>> \multips(0,0)(1.2,0){5}{\psline[linethickness=2pt](1,0)(1,1)}
>>> \psline(-.2,-1.4)(3.6,-1.4)
>>> \end{pspicture}
>>> \ifpdf
>>> \end{pdfdisplay}
>>> \fi
>>> 
>>> \end{document}
>>> 
>>> results in:
>>> 
>>> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3)
>>>  \write18 enabled.
>>> output format initialized to PDF
>>> entering extended mode
>>> (./box2.tex
>>> LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
>>> Babel <v3.8c> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
>>> ngerman, n
>>> ohyphenation, loaded.
>>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/article.cls
>>> Document Class: article 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
>>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/size12.clo))
>>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/oberdiek/ifpdf.sty)
>>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/tex/latex/pdftricks/pdftricks.sty
>>> 
>>> Package pdftricks Warning: ****************************************
>>> (pdftricks)                Package pdftricks v,1.16 loaded
>>> (pdftricks)                [psTricks support in PDF (CVR, ACL)]
>>> (pdftricks)                ****************************************.
>>> 
>>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
>>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
>>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
>>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
>>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.cfg)
>>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/pdftex.def)))
>>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/color.sty
>>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/color.cfg))
>>> 
>>> Package pdftricks Warning: ****************************************
>>> (pdftricks)                Using \write 18 capability
>>> (pdftricks)                for producing PDF-figures.
>>> (pdftricks)                ****************************************.
>>> 
>>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/moreverb/moreverb.sty
>>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/tools/verbatim.sty)))
>>> No file box2.aux.
>>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.tex
>>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/supp-mis.tex
>>> loading : Context Support Macros / Miscellaneous (2004.10.26)
>>> )
>>> loading : Context Support Macros / PDF (2004.10.26)
>>> ) Opening PDFStream=box2-fig1.texThis is pdfeTeX, Version
>>> 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3)
>>> output format initialized to DVI
>>> entering extended mode
>>> rm: box2-fig1.aux: No such file or directory
>>> rm: box2-fig1.dvi: No such file or directory
>>> rm: box2-fig1.eps: No such file or directory
>>>  (./box2.aux) )
>>> No pages of output.
>>> Transcript written on box2.log.
>>> 
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