Re: [Texpower-users] (Bug?) Awkward Image problems involving PS/PDF Tricks and Texpower

[Hans F. N. <Han...@hi...>]

* Hans F. Nordhaug <Han...@hi...> [2006-01-03]:
> * Olumide <50...@we...> [2005-12-29]:
> > Hi -
> > 
> > I'm trying to produce slide pages that involve a mix of text and 
> > graphics that appear in a stepwise fashion (for which I'm using the 
> > \stepwise and \step commands in the Texpower bundle . My graphics are 
> > done with PSTricks).
> > 
> > The problem is that I'm getting the wrong images on subsequent 
> > pages.Because the problem is hard problem to explain, I'm including a 
> > bit of code (below) illustrating the problem. The code is supposed to 
> > produce a 3 page slide with 3 steps on pages 1 and 2. Page 1 contains a 
> > square, page 2, contains a circle, and page 3 contains a diamond shape. 
> > However when the slide (PDF) is generated, I get the circle appear on 
> > all 3 pages (by pages I mean slide pages includeing the steps). I'm not 
> > really sure if this problem is due to PS/PDF Tricks or the Texpower package.
> > 
> > I suspect Texpower is the culprit, cos the FILENAME-pics.pdf file 
> > generated by pst-pdf(?) contains 4 copies of the square (page 1), 4 
> > copies of the circle (page 2), and 1 copy of the diamond (page 3). I'm 
> > assuming this is the right thing to do.
> [cut]
> 
> OK, I have looked at your example and there is a bug in TeXPower. It
> is actually best demonstrated if you remove the "display" option of
> TeXPower - you get a normal non-dynamic PDF. However, still
> FILENAME-pics.pdf contains 5 pages but only 3 pages are requested.
> Probably a counter (used by pst-pdf) needs to be protected. I'll look more
> into it tomorrow and hopefully have a fix then. Thanks for the report.

Just to give an update (to the list):

The problem is that both pst-pdf and texpower is messing with LaTeX's
output routine. The things they do aren't compatible. 

Current conclusion: The packages can't be used together.
(Using pstricks without pst-pdf is of course fine as it always has
been.)
 
Regards,
Hans