Questions tagged [postscript]
{postscript} concerns the PostScript page description language that forms the base for PS, EPS and PDF formats common to (La)TeX
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How to include EPS in LuaLaTeX multiple times and have the postscript code run each time?
Ahoj,
I have an .eps file that does some random number calculations in order to look different on each execution.
Now I want to include it into a LuaLaTeX document several times, and each time it is ...
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gv: the outputs of pdflatex, latex+dvipdf, and latex+ps2pdf are slightly shifted upwards compared to the output of latex+dvips
Let's create mwe.tex containing
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[paperwidth=1cm,paperheight=1.25cm,margin=0cm]{geometry}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}\noindent
\begin{...
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half-opaque colors of TikZ differ in PS and PDF
Consider the file mwe.tex containing
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[paperwidth=1cm,paperheight=1.5cm,margin=0cm]{geometry}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
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postscript hyperlink url auto-open
I'm trying to add a hyperlink to a PDF by modifying the PostScript.
Any possible to open this action link automated or opening postscript or pdf. it will be executed the link.
[/Rect [ 0 425 295 445 ]
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(How) Can I make a page which is the only page on a printed sheet?
I want to make a PDF document which have no blank pages when viewed or printed single-sided. But when printed double-sided, the first page (the cover) should be the only page printed at the first ...
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How to build index of words from PostScript generated by DVIPS?
The background story is, I'm building Common Lisp the Language from its publicly released source, the source is in LaTeX 2.09 and was build by "Textures, an implementation of TeX by Blue Sky ...
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Selective Rendering of PDF
I'd like to do something that I think many people would like to do, but the tools don't seem to exist.
The short form of my question is whether there is a library (C++ or Java) to parse a PDF produced ...
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Postscript File to Place Everything in a Layer
Would like a postscript file that will place original pdf content onto a layer. Everything in the original pdf goes on a layer. Don't know how to place the stream into the ocg... This is the start of ...
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Understanding the differences between pdf and postscript format and the link between this format and LateX/TeX [closed]
I am trying to understand how pdf and ps format works.
At first I used to think that ps was a format used by printer which contains detailed printing instructions. That was the reason why this ps ...
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trying to diagnose postscript printing problem on lyx/mactex on macOS Monterey
I've been using lyx for many years, mostly on Linux, and on MacOS for a a few years.
On upgrading macOS Big Sur to macOS Monterey 12.0.1 suddenly printing stopped working.
Setup
I'm using the latest ...
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Some Postscript Specials could not be rendered - why?
The following code throws an error:
\begin{document}
\newtheorem{definition}{Definition}[chapter]
\newtheorem{example}{Example}[chapter]
\newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}[chapter]
\setcounter{chapter}...
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How do I fix Package pdftex.def Error with overleaf?
I'm trying to include a ps file with this code adapted from another tex.stackexchange post
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin=3cm,a4paper]{geometry}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsthm}
\usepackage{...
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psnup can't open config file paper.cfg
I'm using Cygwin's psnup. Even issuing psnup --help generates the error can't open config file paper.cfg. The only thing I've found online about this is this message:
A missing file is
texmf-...
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Literal postscript color using \special move lines in picture environment
When colouring lines in a picture environment with a spot colour, the lines moves with respect to the original picture.
To change the rgb colours, to cymk black or the desired pantone, I introduce are
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With the texshade package, is it possible to set a specific, non-Postcript font?
I am using Helvetica Neue for the captions of my figures. I would like to keep this font for the sequence names in an alignment created using the texshade package.
On page 41 of the texshade manual, ...
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Error when generating latex previews on Windows 10
I recently went back to using preview LaTeX (previously used a while back when it was standalone and not part of AucTeX)...but see the following Postscript error when clicking on stop sign:
c\:/Users/...
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MikTeX error "Some Postscript specials could not be rendered" when using package prerex
As part of a larger project I am using package prerex to generate a chapter dependency chart. Within MiKTeX I am running latex --src -specials on what is essentially the following code:
\...
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Points of psline are in reverse order in Postscript code
I build an animation (using animateinline of animate-package in a beamer presentation) containing a \psline with 4 points. The points are calculated with "postscript math". I wanted to include the ...
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Unable to view postscript files using psv in TeX Live on Windows
I installed TeX Live 2019 on Windows 10 last year and tried to use the built-in psv to read postscript files. It opened with an error message, which I cannot remember now. This year, I installed TeX ...
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modifying postscript file: shifting content and resizing page or crop content
I have a program that produces postscript file. The file has a text block vertically in the middle of an A4 page.
The text block fits A5 size in landscape mode. I would like to convert the ps file ...
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How to skew (slant) a box with the graphics/graphicx package? [duplicate]
In the graphics/graphicx packages there are commands \rotatebox, \resizebox, \scalebox and even \reflectbox. But how can I slant/skew something in the same way? (I'm missing a \skewbox command.)
(...
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How to write PostScript commands for "calculation" and "intersection" in the following problem?
This is my code.
\documentclass[pstricks]{standalone}
\usepackage{pst-intersect}
\usepackage{pst-eucl,pstricks-add,pst-calculate}
\usepackage{pstricks-add,pst-calculate}
\usepackage{auto-pst-pdf}
\...
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Show postscript point versus Anglo-Saxon point
I am doing a practical job comparing the postscript point (1/72) with the Anglo-Saxon point (1/72.27).
I need help to be able to show the difference in size in a character (it is indistinct of which).
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ghostscript gives undefined in --execute-- when using color.tex with pstricks on plain tex
Assume the following plain TeX file:
\input pstricks
\input color
\pscircle{1.5}
\bye
Compiling using eTeX works fine, dvips too. However the resulting PS file can't be processed using gs, I'll post ...
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Getting started drawing basic 3D objects with TikZ [closed]
Is it possible to draw this with TikZ (or perhaps a similar package related to postscript, metapost, SVG, etc.)?
Sorry, I don't have much to offer this time. I usually like to provide a bunch of code ...
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Are Knuth's fonts searchable in pdf yet?
Donald Knuth at the Desktop Publishing Pioneers meeting laments that converting to pdf using his fonts yields pdf files without searchable text. Is this fixed yet?
https://youtu.be/WVRMPihnZZM?t=4363
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Is there a Windows 64-bit alternative to Wolfgang Schulter's WMF2EPS utility? [closed]
For many years I used Wolfgang Schulter's WMF2EPS Postscript driver to programmatically convert WMF/EMF (Windows/Enhanced Metafiles) to EPS (Encapsulated Postscript). My suite of programs and scripts ...
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How to set the title of the generated Postscript® file from within the source LaTeX file?
Every once in a while I have to compile source .tex files into .ps files. (The reasons may differ: e.g., due to certain amount of pstricks-heavy legacy code, or issues of some old-printer–CUPS-filters ...
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how to convert metafont created fonts to PS 1 fonts
I have a font (for the script of my language) which was created using metafont. But as is the usual problem with 8-bit fonts it does not scale well. So I have had to create multiple tfm files for ...
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tikzpicture won't render 'usable' PS code
I use tikz (and tikzpicture) a fair bit, but files that used to compile fine before the latest slew of updates to pgf, and pstricks, no longer seem to do so (at least, on my MikTeX installation). The ...
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How can I intercept postscript instructions in a file loaded with includegraphics?
The psfrag package has the capability to intercept certain instructions in eps files, and replace them with new instructions. In this way, it is possible to replace fonts in an image with the fonts ...
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Montserrat font/package, "invalidfont" error when printing
I'm using the montserrat package to use the Montserrat font and I'm having troubles printing the resulting PDF.
This is a trivial minimal example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}...
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TeXcolorrgb vs. setrgbcolor
I wonder if there is a tiny difference of the produced color within the resulting pdf.
Within this given example - two colored lines differently setup.
One line is setup with LaTeX, the other line ...
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Notes between two columns with multicol
I have been working to get notes (possibly margin notes, but doesn't have to be) in between two columns of text. This question has proved useful, however it works with the twocolumn option for the ...
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Is converting a PDF file to Post Script a lossless operation? [closed]
I will use pstops to do some rearranging of a PDF-file, but first I need to convert it to Post Script.
Is that a lossless operation? That is, are the curves in a Post Script file described using the ...
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Calculating data inside pst-plot/postscript and conditionally coloring the plot
I am getting lots of simulated data in tables with 13 columns, from where I want to plot the following:
The x axis should be column number 12 (E), which is fine with plotNoX=12.
The y axis should be ...
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Is it possible to use ALT 227 (π) as a PostScript constant?
Is it possible to use π as a PS constant in my attempt below?
\documentclass[pstricks]{standalone}
\usepackage{pst-plot}
\begin{document}
\pspicture(\psPiTwo,4)
\pstVerb{/2π {2 Pi mul} def}
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Boundary of a path as a new path?
Is it possible to use the boundary of a shape defined as some path as a new path? In the following example
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=3]
\...
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PostScript Driver for DVI Files has stopped working
How do i enable the PostScript Driver for DVI Files to work properly.I am not able to insert pictures in my latex document in PCTEX. How can i fix this problem?
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Using a PS-specific package with XeTeX
I've a package I'd much like to use, MayaPS (for typesetting Mayan glyphs, with many features that make glyph composition easy), but the package comes only as a PostScript thing, and the authors have ...
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How does PSTricks determine the final path direction of composite objects made by \reversepath?
Let me divide the discussion into 2 cases:
Using \CW
\documentclass[border=12pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\def\CW{\psline(2,2)(3,4)(4,1)(4,-3)}
\begin{document}
\begin{pspicture}[...
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How do PostScript interpreters know the meanings of PGF-specific operators, such as 'pgfe' and 'pgfstr'?
A TikZ node "lives" in a TeX box. With latex as the TeX engine these boxes are converted to PostScript directives. Use \showbox to see how a box like this is implemented by following these steps.
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`latex` and `pdflatex` produce different colors given the same TikZ picture
Consider the following LaTeX manuscript featuring a TikZ picture* containing an empty, red-bordered node placed at the picture's origin.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
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pdflatex and gnuplot's epslatex
I'm having some trouble trying to use gnuplot's epslatex terminal in a tex document to be compiled with pdflatex. The figure appears too big in the final pdf, and the axis' tics are not in math mode, ...
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Calculated label rotation in postscript
Elaborating on a solution obtained from the accepted answer of my earlier question, I would like to rotate upside-down labels on the righthand side of the rosetta using modulus.
\documentclass[...
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Microtype package is not supported dvips output
I am using microtype package for good kerning text output.
I am using below mentioned settings in my tex file.
\usepackage{microtype}
\DisableLigatures[f]{size=normalsize-}%disable Ligatures
I ...
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How to convert a dvi file to an encapsulated postscript file?
I heard that we can use dvips –E to convert dvi to encapsulated postscript. But I do not know what is dvips -E. I can not find a command like "dvips -E" in my Texmaker.
Clearly, I am a rookie. Can ...
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Default font used by PSTricks?
I am trying to recreate this drawing:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cartesian_coordinates_2D.svg
There are instructions at the end, but I want to skip some steps. Namely, I want to import ...
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pstricks: Color area under graph: what is dup?
For coloring an area under a graph, there exist multiple approaches with pstricks.
I found a solution that was never mentioned on stack-exchange, but seems to be really simple:
\psplot[linewidth=1pt,...
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Why Latex compiler seems to be bound to PostScript?
I am considering the following facts about the latex compiler:
It only takes PostScript (PS) or Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files as image input;
It produces only DVI files as output, which can be ...
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