[texhax] Graphics using pstrics in Latex

[#ANIRUDDHA MAJUMDER#]

Hi Matthew,
 Thanks a lot for your suggestion. You are right. I was trying to run
pdfLaTeX on this file. However, later on I tried to use PGF and TikZ for
graphics in LaTeX which is working fine.

Thanks and regards,
Aniruddha
http://aniruddha81.googlepages.com/ 

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Leingang [mailto:leingang at math.harvard.edu] 
Sent: Sunday, 9 March, 2008 8:13 AM
To: #ANIRUDDHA MAJUMDER#
Subject: Re: [texhax] Graphics using pstrics in Latex

Dear Aniruddha,

I had suggested you post the example to the texhax list, not to me  
personally, so as many people can see it.  There are quite a few  
experts on the list, I was just letting you know about the customs.

But any way, here is the error message I got:

! Undefined control sequence.
<recently read> \c at lor@to at ps

l.14 \psdots(
              0,0)(2,0)(1,1)

I think you are trying to run pdflatex on this file, and pstricks  
isn't compatible with pdflatex (regular latex produced DVI, which can  
be converted to PostScript, and this is where pstricks does its  
tricks).  When I ran regular latex it compiled without error and  
produced what you wanted.

PGF and TikZ is a basically an implementation of pstricks in pdf(la) 
tex, so maybe you want to check that out.  I use it all the time and  
it's great.

Enjoy!

--Matthew Leingang


On Mar 8, 2008, at 3:47 AM, #ANIRUDDHA MAJUMDER# wrote:

> Dear Matthew,
>   Thank you very much for your reply. Here I attach an example of  
> source
> file which is not working. If there is any better package to draw
> curves, graphics in Latex please let me know.
>
> Thanks once again for your time and generous help.
>
> Kind regards,
> Aniruddha
> http://aniruddha81.googlepages.com/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Leingang [mailto:leingang at math.harvard.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, 8 March, 2008 1:51 AM
> To: #ANIRUDDHA MAJUMDER#
> Subject: Re: [texhax] Graphics using pstrics in Latex
>
> Dear Aniruddha,
>
> There are lots of things which could cause that error.  Can you cut
> down your file to a minimal example and post it to the list?  That
> would help the experts diagnose the problem.
>
> For more information about a minimal example, see:
>
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=minxampl
>
> --Matthew Leingang
>
>
> On Mar 7, 2008, at 9:13 AM, #ANIRUDDHA MAJUMDER# wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>   I am a PhD student in Nanyang Technological University from Jan
>> 2007. I am interested in  Latex and recently I was trying to learn
>> how to draw plots in Latex using pstrics.  Although I have
>> installed the 'pstrics' package it's not working. It shows the
>> error message 'undefined control sequence'. I will be greatly
>> obliged and grateful  if you please give me a suggestion how to
>> overcome this problem. It may be mentioned that in my PC operating
>> system is Windows Vista.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Aniruddha
>>
>> PhD student,
>>
>> NTU
>>
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> <graphics2.tex>

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