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I have a TeX file that my prof gave me and I can't get it to work.

First, I don't know what package allows me to use

\documentclass[12pt,reqno]{caa}.

Next, I have a bunch of pscurves, pslines, and such that give me !undefined control sequence errors. I have tried to compile using everything texmaker.exe allows me to use; i.e. pdflatex, PS->PDF, and such. Nothing works.

I am using Windows, I have MiKTeX, I have tried MiKTeX package manager, typed keyword: pstricks and installed all packages that popped up for it. Not sure what to next.

Thanks for any help.

dustin
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If you've got pstricks matter in your document, there are two approaches. (1) If you leave that code in your document, then using pdflatex will result in the sort of error you're talking about. (2) You can put the pstricks material in separate files, compile those files separately (as you normally would), and then important the resulting pdfs as graphics using \includegraphic

Regardless, the way to compile a file containing pstricks material is by

latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf

Regarding caa.cls, I'm not sure what that class is. It's perhaps something someone at your site wrote.

A.Ellett
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  • thanks i can now view it on yap under .div formate which is sufficient. I can't get the pstricks to load, but don't need them right now. The caa.cls is suppose to be an alternative to amsart but for thesis, i guess. I haven't seen much on the web about it. – mccrack1985 Aug 27 '13 at 02:09
  • @user60675, if you can duplicate the error in a MWE using the amsart class, then perhaps we can help you a bit better. – A.Ellett Aug 27 '13 at 02:12
  • you can also use xelatex and even pdflatex if you follow http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/8413/how-to-use-pstricks-in-pdflatex – cmhughes Aug 27 '13 at 14:40
  • @cmhughes Regarding pdflatex, very true. I'd forgotten that. But, I've not always been happy with the results. I've only dabbled in xelatex and don't know it very well; perhaps you should write up an answer encompassing xelatex. – A.Ellett Aug 27 '13 at 19:34
  • @cmhughes I think where I've run into difficulty with the pdflatex approach is when my pstricks code is so embedded into the document that separating is not always possible. For example, I write quizzes for which each version gets a slightly differently oriented version of the picture (though that could be worked around). But I not too infrequently place multiple nodes throughout the document outside of a pspicture environment. – A.Ellett Aug 27 '13 at 19:38