Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ pstricks | Basic Problems

[argan]

Hi everyone,

I am trying to learn how to use pstricks, but encounter a problem when attempting to load it. The problem is that as soon as I load the package, the latex compiler doesn't seen to compile it properly.

For example, with a minimum of code:

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\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{pstricks}

\begin{document}
Test document
\end{document}

Whenever I load pstricks, as soon as I change anything in the document, I don't see it reflected in the compiled file. I don't get any error messages either. The .dvi file doesn't even seem to be updated? I've tried uninstalling and re-installing pstricks, but it didn't help.

I am using MiKTeX 2.9 and writing in TeXnicCenter 1.0. I don't really know what could be wrong. I hope that was enough information.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Björn

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Björn,

perhaps post the .log file here, as attachment, when compiling with PSTricks.

Stefan

[argan]

Hello, Stefan,

Here is it:

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This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (MiKTeX 2.9 64-bit) (preloaded format=latex 2012.2.2)  10 FEB 2012 14:09
entering extended mode
**template.tex
(C:\Documents\Research\Papers\Plot_test\template.tex
LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, afrikaans, ancientgreek, ar
abic, armenian, assamese, basque, bengali, bokmal, bulgarian, catalan, coptic, 
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 (x86)\MiKTeX\tex\latex\base\article.cls"
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX\tex\latex\base\size10.clo"
File: size10.clo 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
)
\c@part=\count79
\c@section=\count80
\c@subsection=\count81
\c@subsubsection=\count82
\c@paragraph=\count83
\c@subparagraph=\count84
\c@figure=\count85
\c@table=\count86
\abovecaptionskip=\skip41
\belowcaptionskip=\skip42
\bibindent=\dimen102
)
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX\tex\latex\pstricks\pstricks.sty"
Package: pstricks 2011/10/31 v0.52 LaTeX wrapper for `PSTricks' (RN,HV)

("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX\tex\generic\pstricks\base\pstricks.tex"
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX\tex\generic\xkeyval\pst-xkey.tex"
File: pst-xkey.tex 2005/11/25 v1.6 PSTricks specialization of xkeyval (HA)

("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX\tex\latex\xkeyval\xkeyval.sty"
Package: xkeyval 2008/08/13 v2.6a package option processing (HA)

("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX\tex\generic\xkeyval\xkeyval.tex"
\XKV@toks=\toks14
\XKV@tempa@toks=\toks15
\XKV@depth=\count87
File: xkeyval.tex 2008/08/13 v2.6a key=value parser (HA)

("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX\tex\generic\xkeyval\keyval.tex"))))
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX\tex\generic\pstricks\base\pst-fp.tex"
`pst-fp' v0.05, 2010/01/17 (hv)
\pstFP@xs=\count88
\pstFP@xia=\count89
\pstFP@xib=\count90
\pstFP@xfa=\count91
\pstFP@xfb=\count92
\pstFP@rega=\count93
\pstFP@regb=\count94
\pstFP@regs=\count95
\pstFP@times=\count96
)
\psLoopIndex=\count97

`PSTricks' v2.23  <2011/09/04> (tvz)
\pst@dima=\dimen103
\pst@dimb=\dimen104
\pst@dimc=\dimen105
\pst@dimd=\dimen106
\pst@dimg=\dimen107
\pst@dimh=\dimen108
\pst@dimm=\dimen109
\pst@dimn=\dimen110
\pst@dimo=\dimen111
\pst@dimp=\dimen112
\pst@hbox=\box26
\pst@ibox=\box27
\pst@boxg=\box28
\pst@cnta=\count98
\pst@cntb=\count99
\pst@cntc=\count100
\pst@cntd=\count101
\pst@cntg=\count102
\pst@cnth=\count103
\pst@cntm=\count104
\pst@cntn=\count105
\pst@cnto=\count106
\pst@cntp=\count107
\@zero=\count108
\pst@toks=\toks16
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX\tex\generic\pstricks\base\pstricks.con")
\psunit=\dimen113
\psxunit=\dimen114
\psyunit=\dimen115
\pst@C@@rType=\count109
\pslinewidth=\dimen116
\psk@startLW=\dimen117
\psk@endLW=\dimen118
\pst@customdefs=\toks17
\pslinearc=\dimen119
\pst@symbolStep=\dimen120
\pst@symbolWidth=\dimen121
\everypsbox=\toks18
\psframesep=\dimen122
\pslabelsep=\dimen123
\pst@shift=\dimen124
\theoverlaybox=\box29
)
File: pstricks.tex 2011/09/04 v2.23 `PSTricks' (tvz,hv)

("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX\tex\generic\pstricks\base\pst-fp.tex")
File: pst-fp.tex 2011/09/04 v2.23 `PST-fp' (hv)

Thanks,
Björn

[Stefan Kottwitz]

As the log file seems to be truncated, it might be a known issue. Have a look at this post:

Re: No output after recovering from system rebuild.


Stefan

[argan]

That solved it. Thanks!