Re: Problem with PSTricks using MikTex 2.9

Bruce,
If you need pdf then xelatex is probably the simplest solution.
It worked for me, also for the small example you have provided.
I am not familiar with WinEdt, so maybe you give a try to
TeXstudio, which I use? This editor understand lines like

% !TEX TS-program = xelatex

which simplifies compilation. Did you succeed with xelatex
on non-pstrick documents?
Jerzy


> Jerzy,
> Thanks for this suggestion.
>
>   I haven't seen lines like the ones you suggested adding.  I am working
> in WinEdt 6, so I just added the lines in the tex file after
> \documentclass{article}.  This was certainly not right, since they would
> just be ignored by latex because of the %.
>
> In any case, compiling to pdf (which is what I want) in xelatex gave the
> message "Sorry but xelatex.exe did not succeed".   Do you have a
> clarification of your suggestion?
> Bruce
>
>
> On 2016-11-01 3:32 AM, Jerzy Wrobel wrote:
>> Bruce,
>>
>> Try to compile to pdf with xelatex, in my case it works
>> without any additional steps. I just add two following
>> lines at the beginning:
>>
>> % !TEX TS-program = xelatex
>> % !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
>>
>> Jerzy
>>
>>> I am trying without success to draw a diagram using the latex package
>>> PSTricks.  A minimal version of the the command sequence that I am
>>> using
>>> is:
>>>
>>> \documentclass{article}
>>> \usepackage{pstricks}
>>> \begin{document}
>>> \begin{pspicture}(-1,-1)(5,2)
>>> \psline(0,0)(4,0)
>>> \psline(2,0)(2,1)
>>> \end{pspicture}
>>> \end{document}
>>>
>>> When I try to compile these commands using latex  in MikTex 2.9 (under
>>> WinEit 6), I get the message:
>>>          "MikTex Problem Report.  Some PostScript specials could not be
>>> rendered."
>>>
>>> Exactly the same commands compile without any problem using PCTex 6
>>> instead of MikTex 2.9 (but unfortunately PCTex 6 will not work for my
>>> whole project).
>>>
>>> I have uninstalled and then reinstalled MikTex (under Windows 10) but
>>> this doesn't help.
>>>
>>> I really need to draw a lot of similar pictures  in an article, and I
>>> have hit a wall here.  Any suggestions about how to avoid this PSTricks
>>> problem using Miktex will be greatly appreciated!
>>>
>>> Bruce
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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