On 13-04-2010 9:33, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
This is the first time that I post here and I am just starting to work
with xe(la)tex.
What I would like to know is this: is it possible to use the pst-pdf
package on a document which is compiled with xelatex?
If I had this document:
---------------------- test.tex ----------------------
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[nopstricks]{pst-pdf}
\begin{document}
Something.
\end{document}
------------------------------------------------------
I could compile it using pdflatex, in order to get a PDF document. But
if I compile it using xelatex, then the result of the presence of the
pst-pdf package is that xelatex tries to extract the PostScrit images
from this document. Since there are none, it creates no output. What
should I do?
xelatex can handle eps and a lot of pstricks quite fine. So at a
first glance it looks as if you don't need something like pst-pdf.
I had no idea. Thanks a lot! You saved me a lot of time. I was about to
start to convert several dozens eps files into pdf files, as Wilfred van
Rooijen had suggested (and he also has my thanks, of course).
But xelatex (more precisly: xdvipdmfx) handle the postscript by
calling ghostscript in the background to convert the graphics on the
fly during the compilation. If you have a lot of graphics/pstricks
this can slow down compilation.
So it would be fine to have something like pst-pdf that generates
all graphics in one go in a separate document which can then be
included. pst-pdf use the preview package, and recent versions of
this package works fine with xetex:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[active,xetex,tightpage]{preview}
\begin{document}
some text not in a graphic
\begin{preview}
\fbox{some more text}
\end{preview}
\begin{preview}
a graphic
\end{preview}
\end{document}
So I don't see a principal reason why pst-pdf shouldn't work with
xetex. But it would have to be adapted first to the changed work
flow (not latex, dvips, pdflatex but xelatex + xelatex).
Indeed. I shall transmit this suggestion to Rolf Niepraschk.
Best regards,
Jose Carlos Santos
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