This directory contains the special PSTricks config files for the different platforms. By default the dvips config file is already in your current TeX distribution as pstricks.con. If you use another platform then you have to replace the current pstricks.con by one of the following cfg files: - PostScript header files -- If you use the Y&Y's "dvipsone" DVI to PostScript converter, you have to rename config.cfg to generic/pstricks.con and to move all the files of the "dvips" subdirectory to the TeX input folder. -- If you use the MicroPress "VTeX" DVI to PostScript converter, you have to rename config/vtex.cfg to generic/pstricks.con and to move all the files of the "dvips" subdirectory to the TeX input folder. -- If you use XeTeX, you have to rename config/xdvipdfmx.cfg to generic/pstricks.con -- If you use the "textures" (version 1.7/1.8 or 2.0) DVI to PostScript converter (for Macintosh), you should proceed as follows: * create a new folder PSTricks (for instance) as a subfolder in Textures' TeX inputs folder, * copy the "generic", "dvips", "latex" and "contrib" subfolders from the "pstricks" folder to the newly created "PSTricks" folder, * open the "generic" folder and remove the file pstricks.con, then rename the file textures.cfg to pstricks.con, * open the "dvips" folder and change the following line in the file pstricks.pro (courtesy Michael J. Sharpe ): /STV { SDict begin normalscale end STP } def by /STV { Mag 72.27 72 div mul dup neg scale STP } def It was also reported that the `pst-text' package (to put text along paths) doesn't work with the "textures" driver. Textures's users must also look at the page kindly maintained by Michael Sharpe: http://math.ucsd.edu/~msharpe/pst-textures.html -- If you use another driver than these four ones, you have to adapt a pstricks.con file for it, if the one for "dvips" doesn't work for it. You can also look at the instructions of the old obsolete/src/pstricks.con file. And if nothing work, ask for help on the PSTricks mailing list, hopping that somebody on the list has the same configuration than you ... -- 2010-01-22 hv