[XeTeX] Some problems with PSTricks

Axel E. Retif axel.retif at mac.com
Sun Jun 22 16:00:15 CEST 2008


On  22 Jun, 2008, at 06:42, John Was wrote:

> Thanks Peter.  That is, I think, the way to do it in XeLaTeX.  I am  
> using
> plain XeTeX and don't at the moment want to get into the LaTeX  
> environment
> in XeTeX.

But anyway it's better to use

\def\pgfsysdriver{pgfsys-xetex.def}

\input tikz.tex

as Dyballa said.

Best,

Axel

>
> Best
>
>
> John
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Dyballa" <Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE>
> To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms"  
> <xetex at tug.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Some problems with PSTricks
>
>
>
> Am 21.06.2008 um 15:47 schrieb John Was:
>
>> \tikzpicture
>>
>> \draw (-1.5,0) -- (1.5,0);
>>
>> \draw (0,-1.5) -- (0,1.5);
>>
>> \endtikzpicture
>>
>
>
> Does this work better?
>
> \begin{tikzpicture}
>   \draw (-1.5,0) -- (1.5,0);
>   \draw (0,-1.5) -- (0,1.5);
> \end{tikzpicture}
>
> A file (..../tex/generic/pgf/systemlayer/)pgfsys-xetex.def is also
> needed. Otherwise you'd need to tell XeTeX
>
> \def\pgfsysdriver{<driver>}
>
> *before* you load TikZ. A suitable driver is dvipdfm.
>
> --
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>
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