From: <s_v...@ya...> - 2003-05-28 07:34:02
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Hi, I want to use pdftricks with miktex.(The powerful pstricks package doesn't work with pdflatex because pdflatex doesn't understand postscript.) For this \write18 has to be enabled. According to pdftex documentation, this can be done by adding the command line option -enable-write18 or -shell-escape. This doesn't work. If I compile the test file given with the package, I get the warning that \write18 is not enabled. I even tried creating a test file of my own like: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \write18{Dir} \end{document} Then I tried to process this with the command pdflatex -enable-write18 <filename>. According to the documentation this will run the Dir command in the directory where the file resides but this doesn't happen. What can be the problem? Is anybody out there using pdftricks with miktex? If yes, I would love to know how. Regards, Venkataraman ===== S. Venkataraman Lecturer in Mathematics School of Sciences Indira Gandhi National Open University Maidan Garhi New Delhi-110 068 INDIA ________________________________________________________________________ Missed your favourite TV serial last night? Try the new, Yahoo! TV. visit http://in.tv.yahoo.com |
From: Hans F. N. <ha...@ge...> - 2003-05-28 09:15:05
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On Wed, 28 May 2003, Venkataraman Subramaniam wrote: > Hi, > I want to use pdftricks with miktex.(The powerful > pstricks package doesn't work with pdflatex > because pdflatex doesn't understand postscript.) > For this > \write18 has to be enabled. According to pdftex > documentation, this can be done by adding the > command line option -enable-write18 or > -shell-escape. This doesn't work. According to the documentation it is "-enable-write18" and it does work. Try: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} Hello, World! \write18{dir} \end{document} The problem with your minimal example was that it was to minimal - no pages of output produced. \write18 is only executed at shipout if you don't use \immediate. The following also works: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \immediate\write18{dir} \end{document} Concerning pdftricks on MiKTeX, read the following thread: http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=ac9n59%242ui%241%40venus.telepac.pt Regards, Hans --- Use the MiKTeX search page - http://www.miktex.org/search.html |
From: Wilfred Z. <wil...@pl...> - 2003-05-28 14:40:31
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The way I do it is using pstricks and then converting the DVI-file with DVItoPDF. It seems to work in most of the cases. Hope this helps, Wilfred ----- Original Message ----- From: "Venkataraman Subramaniam" <s_v...@ya...> To: <mik...@li...> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 9:34 AM Subject: [MiKTeX] \write18 > Hi, > I want to use pdftricks with miktex.(The powerful > pstricks package doesn't work with pdflatex > because pdflatex doesn't understand postscript.) > For this > \write18 has to be enabled. According to pdftex > documentation, this can be done by adding the > command line option -enable-write18 or > -shell-escape. This doesn't work. > If I compile the test file given with the > package, I get the warning that \write18 is not > enabled. I even tried creating a test file of my > own like: > \documentclass{article} > \begin{document} > \write18{Dir} > \end{document} > Then I tried to process this with the command > pdflatex -enable-write18 <filename>. > According to the documentation this will run the > Dir command in the directory where the file > resides but this doesn't happen. > What can be the problem? Is anybody out there > using pdftricks with miktex? If yes, I would love > to know how. > Regards, > Venkataraman > > ===== > S. Venkataraman > Lecturer in Mathematics > School of Sciences > Indira Gandhi National Open University > Maidan Garhi > New Delhi-110 068 > INDIA > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Missed your favourite TV serial last night? Try the new, Yahoo! TV. > visit http://in.tv.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. > If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a > relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore. > Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge > _______________________________________________ > MiKTeX-Users mailing list > MiK...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/miktex-users |