[Rivet] plotting errors

[Andy Buckley]

Hi Sara,

I also saw this error on lxplus with the new Rivet version. It turned 
out to be because I have a personal LaTeX enironment setup which sets 
the TEXINPUTS and LATEXINPUTS environment variables, and these were 
overriding the TEXMFHOME variable set by Rivet, which points at a 
special add-on for pstricks that adds the opacity support... so if it's 
not visible you get those errors.

This only caused problems for me on Scientific Linux systems since their 
TeX installation is really old and incomplete. Typical! To fix it, I 
added this to my Rivet setup (also in the public Rivet setup script in 
~abuckley/public/setupRivetProf.sh):

export LATEXINPUTS=$LATEXINPUTS:$TEXMFHOME//
export TEXINPUTS=$TEXINPUTS:$TEXMFHOME//

This works for me... please let us know if your problems persist!

Andy


On 29/08/11 11:36, Sara Alderweireldt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been working with Rivet and Professor for thesis and project work
> for a while and recently encountered the problem below. I remembered
> your names from the CERN Rivet tutorial. If you can't help me with this,
> could you please refer me to the correct person?
>
> The problem is that I get the 'dvips: ! DVI file can't be opened' error
> for almost all (but not all) plots I try to make from .dat files
> (prof-envelopes output) with 'make-plots'. I read the manual and tried
> increasing some of the tex parameters which this problem is supposedly
> linked with, but either I'm doing that incorrectly or the problem is
> different. I also ran the command with verbose output, which repeatedly
> gives me:
>
>     ! Package xkeyval Error: `opacity' undefined in families
>     `,pst-3d,pst-grad,pst-
>     coil,pst-eps,pst-fill'.
>
>     See the xkeyval package documentation for explanation.
>     Type H <return> for immediate help.
>
>     ! Package xkeyval Error: `strokeopacity' undefined in families
>     `,pst-3d,pst-gra
>     d,pst-coil,pst-eps,pst-fill'.
>
>     See the xkeyval package documentation for explanation.
>     Type H <return> for immediate help.
>
> I'm running Rivet 1.6.0, Professor 1.3.0, gcc 4.6, python 2.7, ... on
> fedora 15.
>
> Thanks in advance and kind regards,
>
> Sara Alderweireldt
> University of Antwerp


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