How to use psvectorian with pdflatex?

Question

I want to use package psvectorian with pdflatex.

It does not work out-of-the-box. How to do this?

Answer 1

run it with pdflatex -shell-escape <file>

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{auto-pst-pdf}
\usepackage{psvectorian}
\begin{document}

\psvectorian[mirror]{2}

\end{document}

Answer 2

You have to precompile the symbols with a PS-enabled compilation chain, for instance as follows:

% in file ornamentright.tex
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{psvectorian}
\begin{document}
\psvectorian[mirror]{2}
\end{document}

Using latexmk:

 latexmk -pdfps ornamentright.tex

Then you can include ornamentright.pdf in say foo.tex

\includegraphics{ornamentright.pdf}

and compile foo.tex

pdflatex foo.tex