Document Classes ⇒ PSTricks - TexLive: How to

[svenskmand]

Hello everybody,

i wanted to try out PSTricks as I often need math in my figures, so i installed the package "pstricks" and tried this example (I got the example from http://tug.org/PSTricks/Examples/Simple/simple0.tex so it should work)

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{pstricks} 

\begin{document}
\newgray{lGray}{0.95}          
\psset{unit=0.05mm}% 1:20, or =0.1mm for 1:10
\begin{pspicture}(-100,-100)(1000,1300)
  \pspolygon[linewidth=2pt,fillcolor=lGray,%
      fillstyle=solid](0,0)(0,940)(860,1250)(860,0) 
  \psset{linewidth=0.2pt,arrowscale=2,tbarsize=10pt}
  \psline{|<->|}(0,-100)(860,-100)\rput*(430,-100){860mm}       
  \psline{|<->|}(960,0)(960,1250)\rput*{90}(960,625){1250mm}       
  \psline{|<->|}(-100,0)(-100,940)\rput*{90}(-100,470){940mm}       
\end{pspicture}

\end{document}

and got the following error

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This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./simple0.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
yphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size12.clo))
(/home/svenskmand/texmf/tex/latex/pstricks/pstricks.sty
(/home/svenskmand/texmf/tex/generic/pstricks/pstricks.tex
`PSTricks' v1.26  <2008/07/31> (tvz)
(/home/svenskmand/texmf/tex/generic/pstricks/pstricks.con))
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/color.sty
(/etc/texmf/tex/latex/config/color.cfg)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/pdftex-def/pdftex.def))) (./simple0.aux)
! Undefined control sequence.
<recently read> \c@lor@to@ps 
                             
l.9       fillstyle=solid](
                           0,0)(0,940)(860,1250)(860,0)
! Undefined control sequence.
\pst@usecolor ...\string \color@ #1\endcsname \@@ 
                                                  \space 
l.9       fillstyle=solid](
                           0,0)(0,940)(860,1250)(860,0)
! Undefined control sequence.
<recently read> \c@lor@to@ps 
                             
l.10   \psset
             {linewidth=0.2pt,arrowscale=2,tbarsize=10pt}
! Undefined control sequence.
\pst@usecolor ...\string \color@ #1\endcsname \@@ 
                                                  \space 
l.10   \psset
             {linewidth=0.2pt,arrowscale=2,tbarsize=10pt}
! Undefined control sequence.
<recently read> \c@lor@to@ps 
                             
l.10   \psset
             {linewidth=0.2pt,arrowscale=2,tbarsize=10pt}
! Undefined control sequence.
\pst@usecolor ...\string \color@ #1\endcsname \@@ 
                                                  \space 
l.10   \psset
             {linewidth=0.2pt,arrowscale=2,tbarsize=10pt}
! Undefined control sequence.
<recently read> \c@lor@to@ps 
                             
l.11   \psline{|<->|}
                     (0,-100)(860,-100)\rput*(430,-100){860mm}
! Undefined control sequence.
\pst@usecolor ...\string \color@ #1\endcsname \@@ 
                                                  \space 
l.11   \psline{|<->|}
                     (0,-100)(860,-100)\rput*(430,-100){860mm}
! Undefined control sequence.
<recently read> \c@lor@to@ps 
                             
l.11   \psline{|<->|}(0,-100)(860,-100)\rput
                                            *(430,-100){860mm}
! Undefined control sequence.
\pst@usecolor ...\string \color@ #1\endcsname \@@ 
                                                  \space 
l.11   \psline{|<->|}(0,-100)(860,-100)\rput
                                            *(430,-100){860mm}
! Undefined control sequence.
<recently read> \c@lor@to@ps 
                             
l.11 ...}(0,-100)(860,-100)\rput*(430,-100){860mm}
                                                  
! Undefined control sequence.
\pst@usecolor ...\string \color@ #1\endcsname \@@ 
                                                  \space 
l.11 ...}(0,-100)(860,-100)\rput*(430,-100){860mm}
                                                  
! Undefined control sequence.
<recently read> \c@lor@to@ps 
                             
l.11 ...}(0,-100)(860,-100)\rput*(430,-100){860mm}
                                                  
! Undefined control sequence.
\pst@usecolor ...\string \color@ #1\endcsname \@@ 
                                                  \space 
l.11 ...}(0,-100)(860,-100)\rput*(430,-100){860mm}
                                                  
! Undefined control sequence.
<recently read> \c@lor@to@ps 
                             
l.12   \psline{|<->|}
                     (960,0)(960,1250)\rput*{90}(960,625){1250mm}
! Undefined control sequence.
\pst@usecolor ...\string \color@ #1\endcsname \@@ 
                                                  \space 
l.12   \psline{|<->|}
                     (960,0)(960,1250)\rput*{90}(960,625){1250mm}
! Undefined control sequence.
<recently read> \c@lor@to@ps 
                             
l.12   \psline{|<->|}(960,0)(960,1250)\rput
                                           *{90}(960,625){1250mm}
! Undefined control sequence.
\pst@usecolor ...\string \color@ #1\endcsname \@@ 
                                                  \space 
l.12   \psline{|<->|}(960,0)(960,1250)\rput
                                           *{90}(960,625){1250mm}
! Undefined control sequence.
<recently read> \c@lor@to@ps 
                             
l.12 ...60,0)(960,1250)\rput*{90}(960,625){1250mm}
                                                  
! Undefined control sequence.
\pst@usecolor ...\string \color@ #1\endcsname \@@ 
                                                  \space 
l.12 ...60,0)(960,1250)\rput*{90}(960,625){1250mm}
                                                  
! Undefined control sequence.
<recently read> \c@lor@to@ps 
                             
l.12 ...60,0)(960,1250)\rput*{90}(960,625){1250mm}
                                                  
! Undefined control sequence.
\pst@usecolor ...\string \color@ #1\endcsname \@@ 
                                                  \space 
l.12 ...60,0)(960,1250)\rput*{90}(960,625){1250mm}
                                                  
! Undefined control sequence.
<recently read> \c@lor@to@ps 
                             
l.13   \psline{|<->|}
                     (-100,0)(-100,940)\rput*{90}(-100,470){940mm}
! Undefined control sequence.
\pst@usecolor ...\string \color@ #1\endcsname \@@ 
                                                  \space 
l.13   \psline{|<->|}
                     (-100,0)(-100,940)\rput*{90}(-100,470){940mm}
! Undefined control sequence.
<recently read> \c@lor@to@ps 
                             
l.13   \psline{|<->|}(-100,0)(-100,940)\rput
                                            *{90}(-100,470){940mm}
! Undefined control sequence.
\pst@usecolor ...\string \color@ #1\endcsname \@@ 
                                                  \space 
l.13   \psline{|<->|}(-100,0)(-100,940)\rput
                                            *{90}(-100,470){940mm}
! Undefined control sequence.
<recently read> \c@lor@to@ps 
                             
l.13 ...00,0)(-100,940)\rput*{90}(-100,470){940mm}
                                                  
! Undefined control sequence.
\pst@usecolor ...\string \color@ #1\endcsname \@@ 
                                                  \space 
l.13 ...00,0)(-100,940)\rput*{90}(-100,470){940mm}
                                                  
! Undefined control sequence.
<recently read> \c@lor@to@ps 
                             
l.13 ...00,0)(-100,940)\rput*{90}(-100,470){940mm}
                                                  
! Undefined control sequence.
\pst@usecolor ...\string \color@ #1\endcsname \@@ 
                                                  \space 
l.13 ...00,0)(-100,940)\rput*{90}(-100,470){940mm}
                                                  
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(see the transcript file for additional information)</usr/share/texmf-texlive/f
onts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr12.pfb>
Output written on simple0.pdf (1 page, 5069 bytes).
Transcript written on simple0.log.

I have TexLive version 2007-13 installed from the repo in Ubuntu 8.04 and use MiKTeX Package Manager (mpm) to install other packages. I installed pstricks from mpm, but as i got the above problem i installed texlive-pstricks from Synaptic, but I still got the above error. Anybody have any clue?

Best regards.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Svenskmand,

don't use pdflatex with PSTricks, compile with latex instead. There are different buttons for instance in Kile. If you want to produce pdf output format, compile with latex to dvi, convert to ps by dvips and then to pdf by ps2pdf. Kile provides buttons for each step.

Stefan

[localghost]

Take at look at the frequently done errors on the homepage of PSTricks. Pay special attention to point 5 of the list. This is what Stefan already mentioned.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[svenskmand]

Hi Svenskmand,

don't use pdflatex with PSTricks, compile with latex instead. There are different buttons for instance in Kile. If you want to produce pdf output format, compile with latex to dvi, convert to ps by dvips and then to pdf by ps2pdf. Kile provides buttons for each step.

Stefan

Thank you , worked like a charm