[OS X TeX] A suggestion for NewPdftricks (or for pdftricks in general)

[Franck Pastor]

Le 26-mai-05, à 03:28, Herb Schulz a écrit :

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>  You can pick up the changed file
> from my download site, <http://homepage.mac.com/herbs2/>, as
> NewPdftricks.zip. I will try to make this an option to pdftricks with 
> the
> default being no auto-rotation but I'll need a little time.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)

What about making an option to NewPdftricks for the font size (if you 
have time enough, of course, and if it's possible) ? i.e, something 
like

\usepackage[12pt]{pdftricks}

  Up to know, even if the principal document begins with 
"\documentclass[12pt]{article}", the header of each pdftricks file 
("file-fig1.tex", "file-fig2.tex") still is  "\documentclass{article}" 
only, without the font size option :-( Hence the labels in the figures 
are far too small...

I have found a workaround : I add "\fontsize{12pt}\selectfont" at the 
beginning of each pspicture :

\begin{pdfdisplay}
\begin{pspicture}(0,0),(5,5)
	\fontsize{12pt}\selectfont
	....
\end{pspicture}
\end{pspicture}

But it's a bit annoying if you  numerous pictures...

However, NewPdftricks remains the most reliable way (IMO) to get 
pstricks pictures with pdflatex. For example, ps4pdf still works very 
badly pst-3dplot, the pstricks package I use most of the time...

Best regards,

Franck Pastor

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