Document Classes ⇒ pstricks figure distorted in GSview

[tsurreal]

Hi guys,

I use GSview to see the PS output file. But strangely it distorts some figures, at some zoom factors, that I have drawn with pstricks. Refer the attached captured images, they are from the same file but when zoomed with different factors. I generate the PDF from this PS file so as a result the image in PDF is also distorted. As I understand pdflatex does not work when there are pstricks images in the file. Any tips on what I can do?

Thanks,

tsurreal

[gmedina]

Hi,

could it be possible for you to attach the actual offending code? Maybe an option could be to use the pst-pdf or pdftricks packages to generate directly a PDF document including your PSTricks diagram.

[tsurreal]

Hi, thanks for an answer. I am attaching a sample code. Try zooming in the figure with GSviewer.

- tsurreal

[gmedina]

Hi,

it seems to me that the problem was caused by some of the definitions of your diagram and not by the viewers used. I slightly modified a portion of your code to

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\pscustom[fillstyle=none,linecolor=gray,linewidth=0.2]
{
\pscurve[curvature=1 0.5 0]%
(4,4.29)(5,3.89)(6,3.7)(8,3.92)
} 

and everything worked as expected.

Edit: I was too hasty when I first replied. There's still some problem. With the modified code the resulting .dvi document is OK; once converted to a .ps file (DVItoPS), still there's no problem, but when I used PStoPDF to get a .pdf file, the gray stripe in your diagram appeared in the wrong position.

Hmmm. I will have to do some tests. Unfortunately, I can't do them right now, but once I have time I will try to figure out where the problem is.

[tsurreal]

Thank you very much gmedina. I will look forward to a solution to this problem.

- tsurreal

[tsurreal]

Ok, so I have a solution myself. It might not be totally optimized but it works! I modified the description of the black arch as follows:

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\pscustom[fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=Black, linewidth=0]
{
\psline(2,4)(2.25,4)
\pscurve[curvature=1 1 0]%
(2.25,4)
(6.0,3.4)
(9.75,4)
\psline(9.75,4)(10,4)
\psline(10,4)(10,4.2)
\psline(10,4.2)(9.75,4.2)
\pscurve[curvature=1 1 0]%
(9.75,4.2)
(6.0,3.6)
(2.25,4.2)
\psline(2.25,4.2)(2,4.2)
\psline(2,4.2)(2,4)
}

Cheers