Re: Help: undefined control sequence: \maketitle

If I'm not wrong you're compiling your .tex document with PDFLatex. This
is wrong: you need the prosper features from pstricks. You have to compile
your tex with latex, then convert the dvi output into ps with dvips and
then convert the ps file into pdf with ps2pdf. If I well remember this is
a bit cumbersome with winshell but much easier if you use Texniccenter.

Hope this helps

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Stefano Mazzuco

Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche
Via Cesare Battisti, 241
35121 Padova, Italy
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On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Andrew Arnott wrote:

> I'm trying hard to adopt LaTEX for my thesis.  Now I'm trying to make a
> slideshow for my thesis defense.  I've seen some very impressive PDF
> slideshows made with LaTEX, and I'm trying to do likewise.  But every time I
> try to use Prosper, I get this output below.
>
> My configuration is Windows XP, and I'm using WinShell.  I think I've got
> MikTek in there, but I'm no LaTEX guru, so I may be wrong.  I've scanned the
> forums for hours, and I see tips like "update your styles" or such like, but
> I don't even know how to do that.  If MikTek or whatever I've got comes
> out-dated right out of the box, then how do I get them up to date?
>
> Thanks!
>
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-rc7.2-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4)
> output format initialized to PDF
> entering extended mode
> (Defense2.tex
> LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
> Babel <v3.8a> and hyphenation patterns for english, french, german, ngerman,
> du
> mylang, nohyphenation, loaded.
> (C:\texmf\tex\latex\prosper\prosper.cls
> Document Class: prosper 2001/07/17, v. 1.5
> (c) 2000-2001 Frederic Goualard, EPFL, Switzerland
>  and Peter Møller Neergaard, Boston Univ., USA
> CVSId: $Id: prosper.cls,v 1.24 2002/11/25 14:35:50 exupery Exp $
> (C:\texmf\tex\latex\graphics\graphicx.sty
> (C:\texmf\tex\latex\graphics\keyval.sty)
> (C:\texmf\tex\latex\graphics\graphics.sty
> (C:\texmf\tex\latex\graphics\trig.sty
> ) (C:\texmf\tex\latex\00miktex\graphics.cfg)
> (C:\texmf\tex\latex\graphics\pdftex.def)))
> (C:\texmf\tex\latex\seminar\seminar.cls
> Document Class: seminar 1997/10/13, 1.4
> Document Style: `seminar' v1.4 <1997/10/13> (tvz)
> (C:\texmf\tex\latex\base\article.cls
> Document Class: article 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
> (C:\texmf\tex\latex\base\leqno.clo) (C:\texmf\tex\latex\base\size10.clo))
> (C:\texmf\tex\latex\seminar\sem-page.sty))
> (C:\texmf\tex\latex\seminar\semcolor.sty
> Style Option: `semcolor' for doc style `seminar' 1.01 <2004/05/18> (tvz)
> (C:\texmf\tex\latex\pstricks\pstricks.sty
> (C:\texmf\tex\generic\pstricks\pstricks.tex
> `PSTricks' v1.04  <2004/06/22> (tvz)
> (C:\texmf\tex\generic\pstricks\pstricks.con))
> (C:\texmf\tex\latex\xcolor\xcolor.sty
> (C:\texmf\tex\latex\00miktex\color.cfg)))
> ) (C:\texmf\tex\latex\seminar\semlayer.sty)
> (C:\texmf\tex\latex\seminar\seminar.bug)
> (C:\texmf\tex\latex\seminar\seminar.bg2
> seminar.bg2: various corrections for the Seminar document class added since
> sem
> inar.bug (waiting Seminar 98)
> (Version 1.6 of <November 20, 1997> (D.G.))
> ) (C:\texmf\tex\latex\hyperref\hyperref.sty
> (C:\texmf\tex\latex\hyperref\pd1enc.def)
> (C:\texmf\tex\latex\00miktex\hyperref.cfg)
> Implicit mode ON; LaTeX internals redefined
> (C:\texmf\tex\latex\ltxmisc\url.sty))
> *hyperref using driver hdvips*
> (C:\texmf\tex\latex\hyperref\hdvips.def
> (C:\texmf\tex\latex\hyperref\pdfmark.def))
> (C:\texmf\tex\latex\prosper\PPRdefault.sty
> `default' style for Prosper ---
> CVSId: $Id: PPRdefault.sty,v 1.3 2001/10/24 15:11:25 exupery Exp $
>
> (C:\texmf\tex\latex\amsfonts\amssymb.sty
> (C:\texmf\tex\latex\amsfonts\amsfonts.sty))
> (C:\texmf\tex\latex\seminar\semhelv.sty
> Style Option: `semhelv' for the `seminar' doc style 1.4 <2000/05/08> (tvz)
> Modified by Stefan (see source for details)
> ))) (Defense2.aux) (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\supp-pdf.tex
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\supp-mis.tex
> loading : Context Support Macros / Miscellaneous
> )
> loading : Context Support Macros / PDF (2004.03.26)
> ) (C:\texmf\tex\latex\hyperref\nameref.sty) (Defense2.out) (Defense2.out)
> (C:\texmf\tex\latex\psnfss\t1phv.fd) (C:\texmf\tex\latex\psnfss\t1ptm.fd)
> (C:\texmf\tex\latex\amsfonts\umsa.fd) (C:\texmf\tex\latex\amsfonts\umsb.fd)
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> <recently read> \c@lor@to@ps
>
> l.5 \maketitle
>
> ?
> ! Emergency stop.
> <recently read> \c@lor@to@ps
>
> l.5 \maketitle
>
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on Defense2.log.
>


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