latex - fancyfoot - page count in box - colour not shown

Question

I'm using the following from here: http://www-ra.phys.utas.edu.au/~jstevens/code_thesis_style.html

There are also image attachments which show exactly what the following extract of code achieves.

However, the only thing that does not show up as in the pictures in the link, is that the box is not grayed. Any ideas why?

Cheers!

%% page nums on the bottom in a nice box
%% even side pages
\fancyfoot[LE]{\psboxit{box 0.8 setgray fill}
{\framebox[10mm][c]{\rule{0cm}{4mm}\color{black}{\bfseries \thepage}}}}
%% odd side pages
\fancyfoot[RO]{\psboxit{box 1 setgray fill}
{\hspace{\textwidth}\psboxit{box 0.8 setgray fill}
{\framebox[10mm][c]{\rule{0cm}{4mm}\color{black}{\bfseries \thepage}}}}}

%% make the bottom line above the page number box
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\renewcommand{\footruleskip}{0mm}

%% bring the style into effect
%% (must come after all the fancyhead and fancyfoot stuff)
\pagestyle{fancy}

% now redefine the plain style pages (chapter pages, contents pages)
%% to have the same page number stuff on the bottom
\fancypagestyle{plain}{
\fancyhf{}
\fancyfoot[RO]{\psboxit{box 1 setgray fill}
{\hspace{\textwidth}\psboxit{box 0.8 setgray fill}
{\framebox[10mm][c]{\rule{0cm}{4mm}\color{black}{\bfseries \thepage}}}}}

\fancyfoot[LE]{\psboxit{box 0.8 setgray fill}
{\framebox[10mm][c]{\rule{0cm}{4mm}\color{black}{\bfseries \thepage}}}}


\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.5pt}
}

Answer 1

If you don't mind not using the psboxit package, you can achieve the same effect replacing the code snippet you posted with the code between %start and %end in the following example:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{lipsum} % just to generate some text

%start
\newcommand\PageBox{%
  \raisebox{0.5pt}{\fcolorbox{black}{gray!60}{%
    \parbox[b][4mm]{10mm}{\hfil\bfseries\thepage\hfil}}}}

\fancyfoot[LE]{\PageBox}
\fancyfoot[RO]{\PageBox}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\renewcommand{\footruleskip}{0mm}

\fancypagestyle{plain}{
\fancyhf{}
\fancyfoot[LE]{\PageBox}
\fancyfoot[RO]{\PageBox}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
}

\pagestyle{fancy}
%end

\begin{document}
\chapter{Test chapter}
\lipsum[1-40]
\end{document}

Make sure to load the xcolor package in your actual document.