Text Formatting ⇒ Problem with Colors

[fayez]

Hello,

I found this code

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 \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
 \usepackage[dvips]{color}
 \usepackage{multicol}
 \pagestyle{empty}
 \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0pt}
 \setlength{\textwidth}{16cm}
 \setlength{\textheight}{22cm}
 \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
 \setlength{\parskip}{0pt}
 
 \begin{document}
 \renewcommand*{\DefineNamedColor}[4]{%
    \textcolor[named]{#2}{\rule{7mm}{7mm}}\quad
    \texttt{#2}\strut\\}
 
 \begin{center}\Large Named colours in \texttt{dvipsnam.def}
 \end{center}
 \begin{multicols}{3}
 \input{dvipsnam.def}
 \end{multicols}
 \end{document}

on a website and it was suppose to show me the colors in a table, however I keep getting the colors displayed as black when I build a PDF file directly, and not being recognized by LaTeX for some reason, but when I build it as ps first then PDF it comes out as expected.
Is this normal? and any colors should be built .ps first ?
because when I do pdf it gives me an error that says

Non-pdf special ignored!

?

Thanks

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

you're using the dvips driver that's working if you compile to dvi and convert with dvips but not with pdftex.

Stefan

[fayez]

Thanks a lot, I actually had more complications as a result, because when I run tex -> ps -> pdf, the document comes as Portrait when I had it set as landscape, as soon as I put pdftex it worked as I wanted it.
Fayez