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diff --git a/graphics/pstricks/base/config/README.cfg b/graphics/pstricks/base/config/README.cfg new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3814ed7302 --- /dev/null +++ b/graphics/pstricks/base/config/README.cfg @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +This directory contains the special PSTricks config files for +the different platforms. By default the dvips config file is +already in your current TeX distribution as pstricks.con. +If you use another platform then you have to replace the current +pstricks.con by one of the following cfg files: + +- PostScript header files + +-- If you use the Y&Y's "dvipsone" DVI to PostScript converter, +you have to rename config.cfg to generic/pstricks.con and to move +all the files of the "dvips" subdirectory to the TeX input folder. + +-- If you use the MicroPress "VTeX" DVI to PostScript converter, +you have to rename config/vtex.cfg to generic/pstricks.con and to move +all the files of the "dvips" subdirectory to the TeX input folder. + +-- If you use XeTeX, you have to rename config/xdvipdfmx.cfg to + generic/pstricks.con + +-- If you use the "textures" (version 1.7/1.8 or 2.0) DVI to PostScript + converter (for Macintosh), you should proceed as follows: + * create a new folder PSTricks (for instance) as a subfolder in + Textures' TeX inputs folder, + * copy the "generic", "dvips", "latex" and "contrib" subfolders + from the "pstricks" folder to the newly created "PSTricks" folder, + * open the "generic" folder and remove the file pstricks.con, + then rename the file textures.cfg to pstricks.con, + * open the "dvips" folder and change the following line in the file + pstricks.pro (courtesy Michael J. Sharpe <msharpe@euclid.ucsd.edu>): + /STV { SDict begin normalscale end STP } def + by + /STV { Mag 72.27 72 div mul dup neg scale STP } def + It was also reported that the `pst-text' package (to put text + along paths) doesn't work with the "textures" driver. + Textures's users must also look at the page kindly maintained + by Michael Sharpe: http://math.ucsd.edu/~msharpe/pst-textures.html + +-- If you use another driver than these four ones, you have to adapt +a pstricks.con file for it, if the one for "dvips" doesn't work for it. +You can also look at the instructions of the old obsolete/src/pstricks.con +file. And if nothing work, ask for help on the PSTricks mailing list, +hopping that somebody on the list has the same configuration than you ... + +-- +2010-01-22 hv
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