Re: Problem with PSTricks using MikTex 2.9

Am Fri, 4 Nov 2016 18:04:54 -0600 schrieb Bruce Allison:

> Hello,
> Thanks for all for the good suggestions regarding getting my pstricks 
> commands to compile in WinEdt 6/MikTex 2.9 (under Windows 10) and 
> produce a pdf file.  (See earlier posts for the exact commands).  Here 
> is an update on the success of the various suggestions:
> 
> Suggestion 1.  Compile using the sequence latex, dvips, ps2pdf from the 
> menu in WinEdt.
> Result: Latex works (now that I have changed the dvi rendering method) 
> and produces a correct dvi file.  Then dvips produces an error message  
> (Cannot run C:\Program~2\PCTex\PCTexv6\pctex6.exe 
> “My_path\Test_diagram.ps”), but also a ps file. 

I can't believe that dvips tries to start pctex6, but menus in
winedt can do more complicated stuff. And an old winedt as your
winedt 6 can perhaps try to call pctex6.

You could try to install the new winedt 10 and look if it works
better. Or compile on the command line.


> Finally, ps2pdf 
> produces an error message (Cannot run “C:\Program Files 
> (x86)\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Reader\AcroRd32” “My_path\Test_diagram.pdf”), but 
> also a correct pdf file. 

Sounds as if the configuration of winedt points to the wrong
acrobat. Check the pathes. 


> Suggestion 2:  Add two lines at the beginning of the file (see Jerzy’s 
> post), 

There are not necessary if you call xelatex from a menu.

> and compile using xelatex. Result:  This doesn’t work for me. 
> MikTex reports that “Sorry, but xelatex did not succeed” and that
> “XeLatex failed to product a pdf file”.  The last line in the log
> file is “\pst@toks=\toks25”.

log-files normally doesn't end like this. Either you kill the
process or miktex tried to install a missing package and failed.

The best is to compile from a command line to get better error
messages.
 



-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/


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