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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: pstrics module again
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 18:45:06 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.03.1311251835270.780@hzvpu.rqh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPBmU9G=RrQzBEPrMUSHr-dmG2cbY5tFwQyU_4yA9yDdzSJGJQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, DesdeChaves wrote:

> I d'ont know how to fix the picture size.
> No errors at all, but the figure size isn't correct.

Confirmed.

> \usemodule[pstric]
>
> \starttext
>
> Hydrogen spectrum
>
> \startPSTRICKS
> \input pst-spectra.tex
> \input pstricks-add.tex
> \pspicture(0,-2.5)(\textwidth,1.6)
> \psspectrum[element=H, emission](0,0)(\textwidth,1.5)
> \rput(2,1){Hydrogen spetrum}
> \endpspicture
> \stopPSTRICKS
>
> \stoptext

The proper interface is

\usemodule[pstricks]

\usePSTRICKSmodule[pst-add]
\usePSTRICKSmodule[pst-spectra]

When you run the above file, ConTeXt creates the following temp file:

\starttext
     \pushcatcodetable
     \setcatcodetable\texcatcodes
     \usemodule[pstric]
     \readfile{pst-add}{}{}
\readfile{pst-spectra}{}{}
     \popcatcodetable
     \startTEXpage
         \hbox\bgroup
             \ignorespaces
\pspicture(0,-2.5)(\textwidth,1.6)
\psspectrum[element=H, emission](0,0)(\textwidth,1.5)
\rput(2,1){Hydrogen spetrum}
\endpspicture
             \removeunwantedspaces
         \egroup
         \obeydepth % temp hack as we need to figure this out
     \stopTEXpage
\stoptext

runs ""mtxrun --script texexec %s --once --dvips <filename>"
and then runs "ps2pdf inputname outputname"

but that generates the file with the wrong size. dvips gives the following 
error message:

' TeX output 2013.11.25:1841' -> test-pstricks-0001.ps
Page 1 may be too complex to print
dvips: no match for special paper size found; using default

(and that is the reason for the wrong paper size).

It has been years since I used dvips, so I don't remember how to correct 
that. Basically, the "bug" is with the following file:

\starttext
\startTEXpage
   What will happen now
\stopTEXpage
\stoptext

Process using "mtxrun --script test --dvips" and then "ps2pdf" and the 
resulting pdf file has the wrong bounding box.

Aditya

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-25 23:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-25 18:05 DesdeChaves
2013-11-25 18:55 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-11-25 19:19   ` Herbert Voss
2013-11-25 20:25     ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-11-25 20:28       ` Herbert Voss
2013-11-25 22:24         ` DesdeChaves
2013-11-25 23:08           ` DesdeChaves
2013-11-25 23:45             ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2013-11-25 23:53               ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-11-26  8:21             ` Herbert Voss

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