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\title{\texttt{News -- \the\year}\\ \Large new macros and bugfixes for the
basic package \nxLFile{pstricks}}
\author{Herbert Voß}
\date{\today}
There is now a new optional argument for the package: \Loption{psfonts}. If it is
enabled PSTricks will use the original PostScript fonts like Helvetica, Times, \ldots.
The default is to use the URW fonts (Nimbus Roman, Nimbus Sans, \ldots) which are embedded by default!
The PostScript fonts are only embedded if present on your system.
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\section{\texttt{pstricks-tex.tex}}
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This package collects all additional latex macros which must be definied
when running PSTricks with tex. They all moved from the base \texttt{pstricks.tex} into
this new file.
\subsection{PostScript Fonts}
This version of PSTricks uses the Ghostscript fonts from URW instead of the
original base 14 fonts of PostScript. For example: instead of Helvetica we use
NimbusSanL-Regu. The URW fonts are always embedded in the created ps or pdf output.
This is not the default for the PostScript fonts. You change this setting with the optional
argument to \LPack{pstricks.sty}.
\subsection{Error message}
Using PSTricks with \Lprog{pdflatex} will work only when using package
\LPack{auto-pst-pdf} and running the \TeX-file with
\begin{sloppypar}
There is a new optional argument \Lkeyword{draft} which has the same meaning as
the one for \Lcs{includegraphics}. The PSTricks image is not drawn, only the
area of the \Lenv{pspicture} coordinates is seen by a rectangle (only for \LaTeX).
\end{sloppypar}
A full circle has by default an angle of 360 degrees.
Setting the circle with \Lcs{degrees}\Largs{17} to another value doesn't work for the
PostScript function \texttt{PtoC} (Polat to Cartesian -- $(r,\phi)\rightarrow (x,y)$).
Now there is a \texttt{PtoCrel} for the new definition
which now takes
the setting of \Lcs{pst@angleunit} into account.
The command \Lcs{framed} was build by clockwise line sequence. Now it is the
other way round to get the same behaviour as for all other commands
with closed lines.