TeX Live and MacTeX ⇒ Trying to get PSTricks to work...

[johnnyptheswede]

Hi Forum,

I use Debian Wheezy and have installed texlive, full and also texlive-pstricks. I now wish to use latexdraw and use the on-the-fly generated latex code in my latex-documents. I run latexdraw, draw something and try to use the generated code but the response

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(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/epstopdf-sys.cfg))
! Undefined control sequence.
<recently read> \c@lor@to@ps 
                             
l.16 \psline[linewidth=0.04cm](
                               0.0,0.43)(0.86,-0.43)
? h
The control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

comes up. I inserted the 'h' to get something more legible. My latex-code is

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\begin{pspicture}(0,-0.45)(0.88,0.45)
\psline[linewidth=0.04cm](0.0,0.43)(0.86,-0.43)
\end{pspicture} 

with the following includes at the top:

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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,pdftex]{amsart}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsthm,amssymb}
\usepackage[margin=0.5in]{geometry}
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{pstricks}
\usepackage{epsfig}
\usepackage{pst-grad} % For gradients
\usepackage{pst-plot} % For axes

I have read other posts where it is recommended that one installs the texlive package manger, however, I cannot find a download link to it, if the response to this post becomes "get texlive package manager", please include a link to where I can find it.

Greetings
Johnny

[Johannes_B]

I always installed a full texlive obtained directly from TUG, and i never had problems. It installs tlmgr (Texlive manager) by default.

Back to topic: If you prepare a minimal wroking example we have something to test at hand and can tell, if it is the right syntax etc. I.e. is the system lacking, or the code.

[CrazyHorse]

I use Debian Wheezy and have installed texlive, full and also texlive-pstricks. I now wish to use latexdraw and use the on-the-fly generated latex code in my latex-documents. I run latexdraw, draw something and try to use the generated code but the response

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(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/epstopdf-sys.cfg))
! Undefined control sequence.
<recently read> \c@lor@to@ps 
                             
l.16 \psline[linewidth=0.04cm](
                               0.0,0.43)(0.86,-0.43)
[/quote]

You run the document with `pdflatex` instead of the sequence `latex->dvips->ps2pdf` or (better) with `xelatex`. See http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=pdf/pdfoutput

[johnnyptheswede]

Hello again,

Thank you for your support. For the benefit of others I will share the complete solution.

Essentially what CrazyHorse said solved the problem, there was however one more issue, I present the minimal working example here:

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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,pdftex]{amsart}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsthm,amssymb}
\usepackage[margin=0.5in]{geometry}
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{pstricks}
\usepackage{epsfig}
\usepackage{pst-grad} % For gradients
\usepackage{pst-plot} % For axes

\begin{document}

\section*{In this lecture we will study... God damnit! Work!}

\scalebox{1} % Change this value to rescale the drawing.
{
\begin{pspicture}(0,-0.85)(2.68,0.85)
\psline[linewidth=0.04cm](0.0,0.83)(2.62,0.01)
\psline[linewidth=0.04cm](2.58,0.61)(0.32,0.03)
\psline[linewidth=0.04cm](0.96,0.81)(1.58,-0.41)
\psline[linewidth=0.04cm](1.98,0.69)(2.14,-0.51)
\psline[linewidth=0.04cm](1.08,-0.83)(2.66,0.39)
\end{pspicture}
}

\end{document}

As observed by CrazyHorse, I earlier used pdflatex so I tried to switch to the required sequence latex->dvips->ps2pdf, however, when I invoked the command latex it still wanted to generate pdf:s: and it was because of the line

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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,pdftex]{amsart}

which I changed to read

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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{amsart}

Now the sequence of commands latex->dvips->ps2pdf, as documented at http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=pdf/pdfoutput works fine and produces PSTricks-images in my documents! No more separate image files to be imported.

Many thanks!
Johnny