pstricks

[Herbert Voss]

Am 22.04.21 um 12:07 schrieb Daniele Catanzaro:
> I am a mac user, running Mac OS Big Sur 11.3.
>
> After having updated to MacTex 2021 I am experiencing troubles when compiling with pstricks.
> In particular, the compilation with xelatex does not provide any specific error, but strangely enough, NO graph is showing in the output pdf.
>
> Even more strange, all is fine instead when compiling using MacTex 2020 version.
>
> Do you have any clue of what it is happening?


The xdvipdfmx.cfg changed the parameters for ghostscript, which makes it 
impossible
to use xelatex in the usual way as in TL 2020. You can run

xelatex -output-driver="xdvipdfmx -i dvipdfmx-unsafe.cfg -q -E"  <file>.tex

which is not a nice solution.
However, the new file dvipdfmx-unsafe.cfg which is in 
.../texmf-dist/dvipdfmx/
has only one important line:
D  "rungs -q -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY -dNOSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dEPSCrop 
-sPAPERSIZE=a ...

If you are tired of using the above xelatex call then replace the
line the main config file dvipdfmx.cfg, which is in the same directory,
with the above one.


Herbert