TeXShop ⇒ make an academic poster in texshop

[rak]

Hi guys,
my first post here

I am trying to male a poster in texshop.
I have done poster before using winedit -when I was still using a pc-
but when I try to compile the poster.tex file it gives me errors as it doesn't recognise the commands for the header and pbox.

I trying to figure out if texshop does need additional packages.
Any help is most welcome.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi rak,

welcome to the board!
We will try to help. Tell us the error messages and show the corresponding code lines, then we should be able to give advice.

Stefan

[rak]

hi Stefan,
thanks for the quick reply!

I am not compiling the header at the moment as I thought there was someproblem with the font there, however I am still getting errors.

The console board is telling me:

!Undefined control sequence
<recently read> \c@lor@to@ps

I.109 \end{pbox}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi rak,

\c@lor@to@ps is defined for instance in dvips.def and dvipdf.def of the graphics/graphicx package. It will be usable if you for instance write

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\usepackage[dvips]{graphics}

or load xcolor with the same option.
Perhaps you used latex to dvi in WinEdt before, but now you compile directly to pdf by pdflatex? You could configure TeXshop to compile to dvi or (better, if possible) change your document to become compilable by pdflatex.

Stefan

[rak]

Hi rak,
\c@lor@to@ps is defined for instance in dvips.def and dvipdf.def of the graphics/graphicx package. It will be usable if you for instance write

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\usepackage[dvips]{graphics}

or load xcolor with the same option.

I tried to add the dvips option with both packages, but I receive an error for the line after the package... but I guess you are right about the compiling.

Perhaps you used latex to dvi in WinEdt before, but now you compile directly to pdf by pdflatex? You could configure TeXshop to compile to dvi or (better, if possible) change your document to become compilable by pdflatex.
Stefan

I do compile directly to pdf but I don't have much clue how I do it.
How do I make it compatible to pdflatex?
( I guess it's something pretty basic but I am a bit lost when it gets down to settings & co )

I have been looking at the TexShop preferences and I have got the following:

and


thanks very much for your help!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi rak,

do you include eps pictures, or do you need pstricks or anything postscript related?

Stefan

[rak]

ok,
I figured out that if in the Typeset window I choose Tex and Ghostscript instead of pdftex,
it does compile to the pdf file and I receive no complaints.

Will be back with more question ... if I got more.
Thanks a lot!

[rak]

Hi rak,

do you include eps pictures, or do you need pstricks or anything postscript related?

Stefan

yes, I do include eps pictures and then load some package that transform them in pdf.

I ma very glad I found this forum,
after all the years I have using and sweating over latex.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

yes, I do include eps pictures and then load some package that transform them in pdf.

If you include eps pictures directly you cannot use pdflatex (without converting each of them to pdf).
But you can go the way over dvi and ps to pdf: go to TeXShop Preferences, Typesetting, below Default Scripts choose TeX+Ghostscript.

Stefan