Many thanks for the reply. I think all is now well, but it's a curious
situation:
This was a completely new installation on a fresh machine that had not had
any previous TeX or XeTeX version loaded. The file I was adapting from an
old EmTeX (vintage 1995) installation was a simple one to make tray inserts
for CDs (and another for larger-cased DVDs) - the PSTricks code worked
perfectly well there. I have now found that it works when I move the
position of the font-calls (I altered the \font commands to invoke an
outline font) - that seemed to be confusing XeTeX, or the bit of it that
handles PSTricks codes. A simple file containing nothing more than \input
pstricks and then some basic commands such as drawing a polygon or rotating
text is unproblematic. So my installation appears to be robust but I have
no idea why I've had to move around a few lines which were OK in an old TeX
version. (Probably unrelatedly, I've also had the odd experience of some
\if .... \else.... \fi commands generating a processing error in TeXLive
2009 when they are OK in TeXLive 2008 - again some moving around of lines
has cured the problem.)
Not mine to question why - as long as I'm getting the desired output I think
I can safely let go of these oddities!
Best
John
----- Original Message -----
From: <hh-bra...@bol.com.br>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex@tug.org>
Sent: 29 May 2010 15:07
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] PSTricks and XeTeX
areyou sure that the pro-files were updated too?
hh
PS: if not, download the whole installation, unpack it, burn it to DVD and
install it form DVD
Em 29/05/2010 06:08, John Was < john....@ntlworld.com > escreveu:
Hello
I've just installed TeXLive 2009 (web
download) on a new computer running Windows XP Pro, and find that PSTricks
isn't
working (it's OK in TeXLive 2008). Is there some setting that I have to
adjust manually? I forget whether I needed to do anything special in the
2008 installation (though I seem to recall that PSTricks support was only
just
getting off the ground and some manual updates were required).
Here is what I get after a simple test
(setting a bit of text at an angle and drawing a basic ellipse):
GPL Ghostscript 8.70: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
GPL Ghostscript
8.70: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
GPL Ghostscript
8.70: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
Error: /undefined
in t...@dict
Operand stack:
Execution
stack:
%interp_exit
.runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push
--nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1862
1 3
%oparray_pop 1861 1 3 %oparray_pop 1845 1 3 %oparray_pop 1739 1 3
%oparray_pop
--nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- 1862 1 3 %oparray_pop 1861
1 3
%oparray_pop 1845 1 3 %oparray_pop 1739 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval--
%errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2
%stopped_push --nostringval--
Dictionary
stack:
--dict:1159/1684(ro)(G)--
--dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:70/200(L)--
Current allocation
mode is local
Current file
position is 8
GPL Ghostscript
8.70: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
** WARNING **
Filtering file via command -->rungs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sPAPERSIZE=a0
-sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dAutoFilterGrayImages=false
-dGrayImageFilter=/FlateEncode -dAutoFilterColorImages=false
-dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode
-sOutputFile=C:/DOCUME~1/John/LOCALS~1/Temp/dvipdfmx.a0112000007
C:/DOCUME~1/John/LOCALS~1/Temp/dvipdfmx.a0112000006 -c quit<-- failed.
** WARNING **
Image format conversion for PSTricks failed.
** WARNING **
Interpreting special command pst: (ps:) failed.
** WARNING **
at page="1" position="(510.625, 659.146)" (in PDF)
** WARNING **
xxx "pst: t...@dict begin STP newpath /ArrowA { moveto } def /ArrowB
"
)
Can anyone advise on this?
Many thanks
John
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