[Tex/LaTex] Another problem with poker package

Question

First, let me apologize for reviving the topic – I've found a couple of posts here mentioning the experimental poker package, but I still can't work it out.

Going through all the posts I came up with a MWE that should work:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{report}

\usepackage[pdf]{pstricks}
\usepackage{auto-pst-pdf}
\usepackage{poker}
\setkeys{poker}{inline=symbol}

\begin{document}
  \begin{cards}
    \crdtenh
  \end{cards}
\end{document}

However… well – it doesn't.

I've tried three ways of compiling the code:

1. xelatex
   Though it works fine, I lose all the fonts, which is ok for the MWE, but totally useless in any application (e.g. a book or article). All the fonts get substituted and default to a single one.

2. latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf
   That fails at the last step (ps -> pdf) wih the following error:

   Dictionary stack: –dict:1198/1684(ro)(G)– –dict:0/20(G)–
   –dict:176/200(L)– –dict:198/300(L)– –dict:85/200(L)– Current allocation mode is local Last OS error: No such file or directory
   Current file position is 333209 GPL Ghostscript 9.18: Unrecoverable
   error, exit code 1

3. pdflatex -shell-excape
   This was said to be a silver bullet fixing my problems, but unfortunately no good. pdflatex fails with the following error:

! LaTeX Error: \begin{pspicture} on input line 12 ended by
\end{cards}.

I guess the commands get invoked incorrectly. I've checked the code in poker.sty and all should work fine. Well… again – should.

I think I'm missing something here – could anyone help me with the problem ?

EDIT (as suggested in a comment, I provide more info about the package and other topics I found)

"poker" is an experimental package that can be found here:

• doc: http://web.mit.edu/foley/games/Arcadia/sr/poker/poker-doc.pdf
• sty file: http://web.mit.edu/foley/games/Arcadia/sr/poker/poker.sty

Other topics I mentioned:

• getting whole package + using latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/207960/125651
• I was advised to search for "pstricks pdf export"; found this How to convert a LaTeX file with pstricks code to pdf? but didn't work either
• There's one topic here covering one of the cases I mentioned: ! LaTeX Error: \begin{pspicture} on input line 11 ended by \end{cards} though it's left without an answer.

UPDATE: as suggested I switched to using poker2, but this still doesn't work for a more complicated example found in the package's doc:

\begin{cards}
    \crdpair{\crdKs}{\crdtenh}%
    \crdflop{\crdsevd}{\crdsevc}{\crdQd}%
    \crdKc\crdKd%
\end{cards}

The error remains the same:

! LaTeX Error: \begin{pspicture} on input line 12 ended by
\end{cards}.

To be honest I'm perfectly fine with the ability to render single cards – now I'm only wondering if there's anything I could do to make it only better and work it out with groups of cards.

Answer 1

Use the current pst-poker.sty if you want to use auto-pst-pdf:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{auto-pst-pdf}
\usepackage{pst-poker}
\psset{inline=symbol}
\begin{document}

\begin{postscript}
\crdtenh
\end{postscript}

\end{document}

The environment cards is not really needed.

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{auto-pst-pdf}
\usepackage{pst-poker}
\psset{inline=symbol}
\begin{document}

\begin{postscript}
    \crdtenh
\end{postscript}

\begin{postscript}
    \crdpair{\crdKs}{\crdtenh}%
    \crdflop{\crdsevd}{\crdsevc}{\crdQd}%
    \crdKc\crdKd%
\end{postscript}

\end{document}