Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ pst-eps | Basic Example fails

[Mini]

Hello,

pst-eps isn't working. Here is the error and the code. Could anyone please help me?

Thanks

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\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\usepackage{pst-eps}
\begin{document}

\psset{checkfile=true}
\PSTtoEPS[bbllx=-1,bblly=-1,bburx=8,bbury=5,checkfile,headers=all,makeeps=all*]{frame.eps}{%
    \psaxes[linewidth=1.2pt, labels=none, ticks=none]{->}(0,0)(-1,-1)(8,5)[$x$,-90][$y$,180]
}
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{frame}

\end{document} 

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This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (MiKTeX 2.9)
entering extended mode
(E:\Mini\latex\Test\diagram.tex
LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, afrikaans, ancientgreek, ar
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croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, ga
lician, german, german-x-2009-06-19, greek, gujarati, hindi, hungarian, iceland
ic, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, kannada, kurmanji, lao, latin, lat
vian, lithuanian, malayalam, marathi, mongolian, mongolianlmc, monogreek, ngerm
an, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, nynorsk, oriya, panjabi, pinyin, polish, portuguese, 
romanian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, swis
sgerman, tamil, telugu, turkish, turkmen, ukenglish, ukrainian, uppersorbian, u
senglishmax, welsh, loaded.
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\minimal.cls"
Document Class: minimal 2001/05/25 Standard LaTeX minimal class
) ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\pstricks\pstricks.sty"
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\pstricks\pstricks.tex"
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\xkeyval\pst-xkey.tex"
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\xkeyval\xkeyval.sty"
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\xkeyval\xkeyval.tex"
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\xkeyval\keyval.tex"))))
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\pstricks\pst-fp.tex"
`pst-fp' v0.05, 2010/01/17 (hv))
`PSTricks' v2.13  <2010/11/01> (tvz)
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\pstricks\pstricks.con"))
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\pstricks\pst-fp.tex")
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\xcolor\xcolor.sty"
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\00miktex\color.cfg")
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\graphics\dvips.def")))
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\pst-eps\pst-eps.sty"
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\pst-eps\pst-eps.tex"
 v1.00, 2006/11/04))
No file diagram.aux.
pst-eps: check for file frame.eps
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                 Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
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\@pstrickserr ... immediate help.}\errmessage {#1}
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[CrazyHorse]

pst-eps isn't working. Here is the error and the code. Could anyone please help me?

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\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\usepackage{pst-eps}
\begin{document}

\psset{checkfile=true}
\PSTtoEPS[bbllx=-1,bblly=-1,bburx=8,bbury=5,checkfile,headers=all,makeeps=all*]{frame.eps}{%
    \psaxes[linewidth=1.2pt, labels=none, ticks=none]{->}(0,0)(-1,-1)(8,5)[$x$,-90][$y$,180]
}
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{frame}

\end{document} 

your code is missing the loading of the packages pst-plot and graphicx

Herbert

[Mini]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. But it still isn't working (same error, missing pstricks.pro file)

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\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\usepackage{pst-eps}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{pst-plot}
\begin{document}

\psset{checkfile=true}
\PSTtoEPS[bbllx=-1,bblly=-1,bburx=8,bbury=5,checkfile,headers=all,makeeps=all*]{frame.eps}{%
    \psaxes[linewidth=1.2pt, labels=none, ticks=none]{->}(0,0)(-1,-1)(8,5)[$x$,-90][$y$,180]
}
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{frame}

\end{document} 

EDIT: I think I fixed my installation (copied pstricks.pro and pst-algparser.pro to current tex file directory) and it compiled fine. But there is no text. Just graphics... Why is this happening and how could I fix it? Thanks a lot!

[CrazyHorse]

Thanks for your reply. But it still isn't working (same error, missing pstricks.pro file)

try this one:

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\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\usepackage{pst-eps}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{pst-plot}
\begin{document}

\psset{checkfile=true}
\pstheader{pstricks.pro}
\PSTtoEPS[bbllx=-1,bblly=-1,bburx=8,bbury=5,checkfile,headers=all,makeeps=all*]{frame.eps}{%
    \psaxes[linewidth=1.2pt, labels=none, ticks=none]{->}(0,0)(-1,-1)(8,5)[$x$,-90][$y$,180]
}
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{frame}

\end{document} 

however, using the apckage auto-pst-pdf and running "pdflatex -shell-escape" should make more sense

Herbert

[Mini]

Hi Herbert,

Still doesn't work

Any more suggestions?

Thanks again

[CrazyHorse]

Still doesn't work

Any more suggestions?

run this with xelatex:

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\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{pst-plot}
\begin{document}
\begin{pspicture}(-1,-1)(8,5)
\psaxes[linewidth=1.2pt, labels=none, ticks=none]{->}(0,0)(-1,-1)(8,5)[$x$,-90][$y$,180]
\end{pspicture}

\end{document} 

Herbert

[Mini]

Not sure what xelatex is. But when I run that using Latex that I use, it works perfectly...

What I'm trying to do is to export the graphics in pstricks in good quality so I can use it in word.

I would be happy with high quality PNG files too if EPS doesn't work. Do you know how I could do that?

Thanks again.

[CrazyHorse]

Not sure what xelatex is. But when I run that using Latex that I use, it works perfectly...

What I'm trying to do is to export the graphics in pstricks in good quality so I can use it in word.

I would be happy with high quality PNG files too if EPS doesn't work. Do you know how I could do that?

xetex is just like latex, should also be available on your system.
To get a png, use \pagestyle{empty} to get rid of the page number.
What system are you running?

Herbert

[Mini]

I'm running Windows XP. Using MIKTEX. Using Winedt for the editor.

How would I get PNG? I want to just get the specific pstricks graphic (not the whole page).

I don't want to convert it to PDF and then PNG because then a lot of quality degradation occurs and it's the whole page (I only want the specific pstricks graphic only).

How would I do this?

Thanks

[frabjous]

I'm running Windows XP. Using MIKTEX. Using Winedt for the editor.

How would I get PNG? I want to just get the specific pstricks graphic (not the whole page).

I don't want to convert it to PDF and then PNG because then a lot of quality degradation occurs and it's the whole page (I only want the specific pstricks graphic only).

How would I do this?

Thanks

You can convert DVI files to PNG with DVIPNG, which should have come with MiKTeX. (Don't ask me how to use it with Windows except via the command line, however.)

You can convert EPS, PS or PDF to PNG with Ghostscript. (Again, using the command line.) Or if you need a GUI, and want something free/open source, use the GIMP or Inkscape.

There should not be any quality degradation in converting EPS to PDF (-how are you doing it if you are seeing degration?) -- there will be in converting PDF to PNG, but no more so than in converting something else to PNG.

The nice thing about converting to PDF in the meantime is that you can then use pdfcrop to crop the image to just the figure, and don't need to resize the page. Of course if you need to resize the page instead you can do so with the geometry package, or else follow the instructions here.