Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ pstricks and perl

[mikjsmith]

Following on from my comment in this thread (http://www.latex-community.org/forum/vi ... 251#p43242) I thought it would be easier to separate it out.

pstricks (and specifically pst-barcode) under pdflatex need perl to complete. I have initially installed ActivePerl but CrazyHorse notes any version of Perl is fine. I use portable MiKTeX and so wondered if I could get a portable version of Perl (http://strawberryperl.com/releases.html) working with it.

I assume pstricks (?) will use either a Window environment variables or file association to run the perl script? Is this correct or is the location hard coded? Can I specify the location of Perl so that I can use the portable version?

thanks

mike

[CrazyHorse]

pstricks (and specifically pst-barcode) under pdflatex need perl to complete. I have initially installed ActivePerl but CrazyHorse notes any version of Perl is fine. I use portable MiKTeX and so wondered if I could get a portable version of Perl (http://strawberryperl.com/releases.html) working with it.

I assume pstricks (?) will use either a Window environment variables or file association to run the perl script? Is this correct or is the location hard coded? Can I specify the location of Perl so that I can use the portable version?

PSTricks doesn't use Perl. It is the program pdfcrop which cuts all whitespace around the already created pdf. You can try to use the option [crop=off] for auto-pst-pdf. In this case the coordinates from the pspicture environment are taken for the created image width/height.

Herbert