[Tex/LaTex] Setting up TeXstudio to run LaTeX + dvips + ps2pdf

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I am trying to obtain nice Matlab figures in my LaTeX report and although there are many ways to achieve this, a lot of them don't work for my large data plots.

But using LaPrint gets me nice graphical results but I have a problem with my labels. They are all shown like:

s06,s05,x01,x02,..etc

I localized the problem in the fact that my TeXstudio invokes pdflatex where it should invoke latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf. How do I properly set that up? I did like this following latex-dvips-ps2pdf

I added a user command as follows:

user0: LaTex.DVIPS.PS2PDF
latex --synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode --shell-escape %.tex | dvips -o %.ps %.dvi| ps2pdf %.ps

and set that as default compiler command

DefaultCompiler
user0:LaTex.DVIPS.PS2PDF

Error:

Could not start the command: user0:LaTex.DVIPS.PS2PDF

Hack:

If you set the latex command to:

latex –synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode –shell-escape %.tex | dvips -o %.ps %.dvi| ps2pdf %.ps

it works, only it is an ugly solution since you are inserting other commands dvips and ps2pdf into the latex command.

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Probably the only error in the first solution was the naming of the default compiler.

You should call txs:///user0 there.

The naming pattern for user commands is <command id>:<display name> see the manual. In your case (user0:LaTex.DVIPS.PS2PDF), user0 is the id, "LaTex.DVIPS.PS2PDF" is used for the label in the Tools menu.

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If you use the line

% !TeX TXS-program:compile = txs:///latex/[--shell-escape]

at the top of the document, then you don't need any extra user command. Just compile it. Then texstudio will compile it with latex with --shell-escape (of course it will ask your permission) (even if the default build has pdflatex as the compiler) and dvi file is produced. Then you can run DVI2PS and in turn PS2PDF.

Now the question is - whether you would like to compile the document with three clicks or one click. If the latter, then define a new user command like the following:

Type the name of the command in the first box (mine is user2: LaTex.DVIPS.PS2PDF) ( (user2: may be different for you).

Type the command:

latex --synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode --shell-escape %.tex | dvips -o %.ps %.dvi| ps2pdf %.ps

in the second box as in this picture:

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Note that command separator is |, not :.

Now if you use user2: LaTex.DVIPS.PS2PDF to compile, you won't need that first line: % !TeX TXS-p....

I get this:

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The message to use the PHONON option refers to compiling your editor and viewer, not compiling your document.

The documentation for the media9 package states that embedded media can only be viewed using Adobe Reader (specific versions only) or Foxit Reader. (See §2, p.3 of the attached documentation.)

The documentation for the multimedia package (§14.1.1, pp.133-134) states that

Whether the viewer application can actually display the movie depends on the application and the version. For example, the Acrobat Reader up to version 5 does not seem to be able to display any movies or sounds on Linux. On the other hand, the Acrobat Reader Version 6 on MacOS is able to display anything that QuickTime can display, which is just about everything. Embedding movies in a PDF document is provided for by the PDF standard and is not a peculiarity of the Acrobat Reader. In particular, one might expect other viewers like xpdf and poppler-based viewers (Okular, Evince) to support embedded movies in the future.

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If your viewer application is not able to render your movie, but some external application is, you must use the externalviewer option. This will ask the viewer application to launch an application for showing the movie instead of displaying it itself. Since this application is started in a new window, this is not nearly as nice as having the movie displayed directly by the viewer (unless you use evil trickery to suppress the frame of the viewer application). Which application is chosen is left to the discretion of the viewer application, which tries to make its choice according to the extension of the ⟨movie filename⟩ and according to some mapping table for mapping extensions to viewer applications. How this mapping table can be modified depends on the viewer application, please see the release notes of your viewer.

Again, the problem is with your PDF viewer, not with *TeX.

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