[OS X TeX] Installing PSTricks

[Frédéric Dupont]

>
> When you use pstricks you can't use pdflatex (which is the default  
> engine in TeXShop); you neet to use tex and ghostscript to do the  
> typesetting.
>

Hi,

It's certainly  better to create a texmf directory (i.e. a texmf  
folder) in your

/Users/my_account/Library/

with proper subfolders (tex,fonts,dvips etc. ) and proper  
subsubfolders (tex/generic , tex/latex, etc.).

You can use PSTricks with pdflatex. You need to download PdfTricks  
(or better, NewPdfTricks).

A typical foo.tex document looks like:

\documentclass[openany,10pt,a4paper]{book}
...
[here are the others packages you need]
....
\usepackage{pdftricks}
\usepackage{multido}
\usepackage[svgnames,x11names]{xcolor}

%%you call here PSTricks packages you need%%%%%%
\begin{psinputs}
\usepackage{pst-all}
\usepackage{pst-grad}
\usepackage{pst-vue3d}
\usepackage{pst-3dplot}
\usepackage{pstricks-add}
....
[and perhaps, other packages]
.....
\end{psinputs}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

\begin[document]

\begin{pdfdisplay}
\psset{xunit=5cm,yunit=5cm}
\begin{pspicture}(-0.1,-0.5)(2.2,1.2)
\psline[linestyle=dotted](1,0)(1,1)
\psline[linestyle=dotted](2,0)(2,1)
\psline[linestyle=dotted](0,1)(2,1)
\end{pspicture}
\end{pdfdisplay}

\end[document

and with newpdftricks the command is :

pdflatex -shell-escape foo.tex

Sincerely,

-fd
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