[OS X TeX] Every Other Tick in PSTricks
Maurino P. Bautista, Ph.D.
maobautista at gmail.com
Tue Jun 9 14:35:27 EDT 2009
I have OS X 10.5.7, TeXShop 2.26, TeX Live 2008 with all the updates
via TeX Live Utility Manager. If I typeset the code below using TeX
and DVI, I get the right figure:
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{pstricks-add}
\listfiles
\begin{document}
\centering
\begin{pspicture}(-1,-1)(6,6)
\psaxes[showOriginTick=false,showorigin=false,Dx=2,Dy=2,subticks=2](6,6)
\end{pspicture}
\end{document}
But if I typeset it using Pdftex, which is my default setting, I get
the error message:
....
[Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).]
)
! Undefined control sequence.
<recently read> \c at lor@to at ps
1.12 \end
{pspicture}
?
.....
I understand that the high level PostScript commands generated by
pstricks are unknown to pdfTeX. A while back, I believe Herb wrote the
following code that used to work for me but now generates no output
and no error messages either:
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{ifpdf}
\ifpdf%
\usepackage{pdftricks}
\begin{psinputs}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\usepackage{pst-plot}
\end{psinputs}
\else
\usepackage{pstricks}
\usepackage{pst-plot}
\newenvironment{pdfpic}{}{}
\fi
\begin{pdfpic}
....INSERT pspicture environment here....
\end{pdfpic}
\end{document}
The idea I think is to detect if one is using pdfTeX and switch to
pdftricks to allow pstricks commands to be used. Any ideas on how to
fix the above code?
Maurino P. Bautista, Ph.D.
Professor of Mathematics
maobautista at gmail.com
On Jun 1, 2009, at 3:00 PM, <macosx-tex-request at email.esm.psu.edu> <macosx-tex-request at email.esm.psu.edu
> wrote:
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 08:16:17 -0700
> From: David Arnold <dwarnold45 at suddenlink.net>
> Subject: [OS X TeX] Every Other Tick in PSTricks
> To: MacOSX-TeX <MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Message-ID: <AD89DDB2-BBC8-499D-80C1-1A0B5087ABB2 at suddenlink.net>
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>
> All, Consider the following code:
>
> \documentclass{minimal}
> \usepackage{pstricks-add}
>
> \listfiles
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \begin{pspicture}(-1,-1)(6,6)
> \psaxes[showOriginTick=false,showorigin=false,Dx=2,Dy=2,subticks=2]
> (6,6)
> \end{pspicture}
>
> \end{document}
>
> When I run this in Texshop 2.20, I get this image;
>
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>
> When I compile in the terminal with latex->dvips->ps2pdf, I get the
> correct image which looks like this:
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>
> Indeed, when I drag the first image from Texshop's previewer and drop
> it on Acrobat, I also get the second image. Why isn't the first image
> showing up properly in the Texshop previewer?
>
> David.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 10:36:52 -0500
> From: Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Every Other Tick in PSTricks
> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Message-ID: <9DC3BA0D-DD69-48D7-8EA1-514F4465565B at wideopenwest.com>
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>
>
> On Jun 1, 2009, at 10:16 AM, David Arnold wrote:
>
>> All, Consider the following code:
>>
>> \documentclass{minimal}
>> \usepackage{pstricks-add}
>>
>> \listfiles
>>
>> \begin{document}
>>
>> \begin{pspicture}(-1,-1)(6,6)
>> \psaxes[showOriginTick=false,showorigin=false,Dx=2,Dy=2,subticks=2]
>> (6,6)
>> \end{pspicture}
>>
>> \end{document}
>>
>> When I run this in Texshop 2.20, I get this image;
>>
>> <pastedGraphic.tiff>
>>
>> When I compile in the terminal with latex->dvips->ps2pdf, I get the
>> correct image which looks like this:
>>
>> <pastedGraphic.tiff>
>>
>> Indeed, when I drag the first image from Texshop's previewer and
>> drop it on Acrobat, I also get the second image. Why isn't the first
>> image showing up properly in the Texshop previewer?
>>
>> David.
>
> Howdy,
>
> No problem here with OS X 10.5.7, TeXShop 2.26, MacTeX (TeX Live) 2008
> with all updates via TeX Live Utilities (tlmgr).
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 17:48:06 +0200
> From: Daniel Becker <daniel.becker at uni-rostock.de>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Every Other Tick in PSTricks
> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Message-ID: <2B48901B-3B88-476B-8535-A655813A38EB at uni-rostock.de>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"; format=flowed; delsp=yes
>
>
> Am 01.06.2009 um 17:36 schrieb Herbert Schulz:
>
>> No problem here with OS X 10.5.7, TeXShop 2.26, MacTeX (TeX Live)
>> 2008
>> with all updates via TeX Live Utilities (tlmgr).
>
> Same here, same setup. The file list I get is:
>
> minimal.cls 2001/05/25 Standard LaTeX minimal class
> pstricks-add.sty 2009/03/17 v. 0.13 package wrapper for pstricks-
> add.tex (hv)
> pstricks.sty 2008/11/26 v0.40 LaTeX wrapper for `PSTricks' (RN,HV)
> pstricks.tex 2009/01/25 v1.27 `PSTricks' (tvz,hv)
> xcolor.sty 2007/01/21 v2.11 LaTeX color extensions (UK)
> color.cfg 2007/01/18 v1.5 color configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
> dvips.def 1999/02/16 v3.0i Driver-dependant file (DPC,SPQR)
> pstricks-add.tex 2009/04/29 v3.31 `PSTricks-add' (hv)
> pst-xkey.tex 2005/11/25 v1.6 PSTricks specialization of xkeyval
> (HA)
> xkeyval.sty 2008/08/13 v2.6a package option processing (HA)
> xkeyval.tex 2008/08/13 v2.6a key=value parser (HA)
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 10:59:10 -0500
> From: Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Every Other Tick in PSTricks
> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Message-ID: <151C883A-E2D3-4B0B-A6DD-45C17DAE7419 at wideopenwest.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
>
>
> On Jun 1, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Daniel Becker wrote:
>
>>
>> Am 01.06.2009 um 17:36 schrieb Herbert Schulz:
>>
>>> No problem here with OS X 10.5.7, TeXShop 2.26, MacTeX (TeX Live)
>>> 2008
>>> with all updates via TeX Live Utilities (tlmgr).
>>
>> Same here, same setup. The file list I get is:
>>
>> minimal.cls 2001/05/25 Standard LaTeX minimal class
>> pstricks-add.sty 2009/03/17 v. 0.13 package wrapper for pstricks-
>> add.tex (hv)
>> pstricks.sty 2008/11/26 v0.40 LaTeX wrapper for `PSTricks' (RN,HV)
>> pstricks.tex 2009/01/25 v1.27 `PSTricks' (tvz,hv)
>> xcolor.sty 2007/01/21 v2.11 LaTeX color extensions (UK)
>> color.cfg 2007/01/18 v1.5 color configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
>> dvips.def 1999/02/16 v3.0i Driver-dependant file (DPC,SPQR)
>> pstricks-add.tex 2009/04/29 v3.31 `PSTricks-add' (hv)
>> pst-xkey.tex 2005/11/25 v1.6 PSTricks specialization of xkeyval
>> (HA)
>> xkeyval.sty 2008/08/13 v2.6a package option processing (HA)
>> xkeyval.tex 2008/08/13 v2.6a key=value parser (HA)
>>
>> Daniel
>
>
> Howdy,
>
> I've got the exact same file list; all the same dates and versions.
>
> In your original post you said you were using TeXShop 2.20 while I'm
> using 2.26.
>
> What happens when you open the pdf file in Preview? Those extra ticks
> are quite thin and I wonder if some anti-aliasing differences between
> out two system is making the extra ticks disappear.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>
>
>
>
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