I thought that PSTricks package was not possible to use in pdfLaTeX but the user Dima claims otherwise.
How can I force pdfLaTeX to use PSTricks then?
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I thought that PSTricks package was not possible to use in pdfLaTeX but the user Dima claims otherwise.
How can I force pdfLaTeX to use PSTricks then?
Best Answer
The easiest way is running
xelatex
instead ofpdflatex
. It detects itself PostScript code or eps images in the document and does the conversion on the fly. If you do not want to usexelatex
then there are other solutions:If you have an up-to-date TeX distribution use
and then run your document with
pdflatex -shell-escape <file>
. Then the PSTricks images are created on-the-fly as stand alone pdf images and saved in<file>-pics.pdf
. If you have an older system useFor more information see PSTricks web page
For Windows you have to install a Perl version, if you want to use the full power of the auto-pst-pdf package. However, if you do not want or cannot install Perl then use
There is also a Perl script pst2pdf which can create the document with pdflatex and also the PSTricks images as
pdf|png|whatever
images. It takes the preamble of the main document and creates stand-alone-documents for all PostScript specific code.