Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ MiKTeX and PSTricks

[coachbennett1981]

I forgot my mac at home and need to do some figures, but all I have is a crappy pc. (windows XP). I installed MikTex and can produce a pdf with text and normal code (\dfrac, etc.) I am using TexWorks, but I get the following error for pstricks code:

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[Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).]
)
Preview: Fontsize 12pt
Preview: PDFoutput 1

Package pst-pdf Warning: pspicture No. 1 undefine

Package pst-pdf Warning: File `untitled-1-pics.pdf' not found.
(pst-pdf)                Use the following commands to create it:
(pst-pdf)                ---------------------------------------------------- 
(pst-pdf)                latex untitled-1.tex
(pst-pdf)                dvips -o untitled-1-pics.ps untitled-1.dvi
(pst-pdf)                ps2pdf untitled-1-pics.ps
(pst-pdf)                ---------------------------------------------------- .
("C:\Documents and Settings\Student\My Documents\untitled-1.aux") )
No pages of output.
Transcript written on untitled-1.log.

Here is my document:

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{pst-pdf}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\usepackage{pst-plot}
\usepackage{pstricks-add}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\psaxes[Ox=-2](-2,0)(2,3)
\end{document}

Any help would be appreciated

NIck

[localghost]

Use the auto-pst-pdf package and enable shell escape by calling the compiler with the »--enable-write18« command line option. Customize your editor settings accordingly.


Thorsten

[CrazyHorse]

I forgot my mac at home and need to do some figures, but all I have is a crappy pc. (windows XP). I installed MikTex and can produce a pdf with text and normal code (\dfrac, etc.) I am using TexWorks, but I get the following error for pstricks code:

did you install Perl? http://www.activestate.com/perl

Herbert

[coachbennett1981]

@Thorsten. I followed your instructions but do not have the same options as your pic does.

Under preferences->Typsetting->(Processing tools I selected edit)->Tool Configuration: I had the following options only:

-e
$pdflatex=q/pdflatex-synctex=1%O %S/
-pdf
$fullname

I added -shell-esscape and ran my file again, however it did not work.

@ Herbert

I went your link, but what is this PERL (like the programming Language)?

Thank you for you time.

Nick

[localghost]

With the package replacement I already mentioned in my last reply your code works fine on a MiKTeX 2.9 system with the settings for TeXworks as shown in the attachment. The TeXworks version is that installed by MiKTeX. The shown settings are default except for the additional shell escape parameter.

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{auto-pst-pdf}
\usepackage{pst-plot}
\usepackage{pstricks-add}

\pagestyle{empty}

\begin{document}
  \psaxes[Ox=-2](-2,0)(2,3)
\end{document}

Perl is a script language. To make such a script work, you will need an interpreter installed. Herbert gave you a link where to get one for free. The reason why you need this is the fact that pdfcrop is involved in the background.

[CrazyHorse]

I went your link, but what is this PERL (like the programming Language)?

yes, it is needed for pdfcrop, which cuts the surrounding whitespace from the created figures. If you do not install it, then you have to load

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\usepackage[crop=off]{auto-pst-pdf}

Then the coordinates from pspicture are taken to define the image width/height
However, it is a good idea to install Perl and to crop the white space.

Herbert

[coachbennett1981]

Thank you for you help. Great advice. I will work with this tonight.

Nick