[OS X TeX] Setting up PDFtricks on MacOS10.4

[Franck Pastor]

Le 28-nov.-05 à 17:52, Christopher Allen a écrit :

>> There is nothing more to do than install the "pdftricks.sty" file  
>> (from Herb Schulz's site) in your texmf directory (~/Library/texmf/ 
>> tex/latex).
>
>
> I did that. But there must be more than that. I've copied files  
> other people have posted to test my installation, and they won't  
> compile properly. I keep getting:
>
> (pdftricks)                No \write 18 capability.
> (pdftricks)                You'll have to run a script by yourself!
>
> I've tried to follow a number of different suggestions posted  
> around the web to fix this; it seems I'm far from the first to  
> encounter this problem. Clearly there is something more I need to  
> do, but I don't understand at all what I'm supposed to do, even  
> after reading pages of suggestions.
>
> Thanks!
> Chris
>
> PS: Here's the sample file I'm using now:
>
> \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
> \usepackage{ifpdf}
> \ifpdf%
>   \usepackage{pdftricks}
>   \begin{psinputs}
>     \usepackage{pstricks}
>   \end{psinputs}
> \else
>   \usepackage{pstricks}
>   \newenvironment{pdfpic}{}{}
> \fi
> \begin{document}
> \section{Hallo}
> Welt.
>
> \begin{figure}[htb]
> \centering
> \caption{The image, converted with \texttt{pdftricks}}
> \begin{pdfpic}
>   \begin{pspicture}(5,2)
>     \psline{|<->|}(0,0.3)(4,1.9)
>   \end{pspicture}
> \end{pdfpic}
> \end{figure}
>
> \end{document}

It works fine for me (with TeXShop 2.03 using a recent gwteTeX- 
TeXLive 2005 distribution). Anyway, could you try it again with  
NewPdftricks installed and then send us the entire .log file if there  
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