Most of the PSTricks related packages are available at CTAN. For others choose topic packages from the left menu.

For more information read the documentation of the packages and/or search the PSTricks mail archives of the pstricks mailing list at http://www.tug.org

This is not an official FAQ for PSTricks. If you do not find what you were searching for, then have a look at the mailing list archives or write to the PSTricks mailing list. If you are not subscribed to the list, then first go here!
Please do not write questions to PSTricks to me as private mail, write always to the mailing list.

Read the latest news of updates for pstricks.tex!

Important: PSTricks packages are divided into the core and contributed ones. The core is pstricks, pst-plot, pst-node, pst-tree. Load the core packages alwaysbefore all other!

Frequently done errors ...

1. Do not choose pstricks.tex as a file name, it is the name of the main PSTricks package! Windows users pay attention here, there is no difference in lower or upper case letters.
2. Missing number, treated as zero This is the default error message when you are using symbolic node names without enabled \SpecialCoor after loading the pst-node package!
3. Do not choose package pstcol.sty, it is rather out of date. pstricks.sty ( >= v. 1.04 ) does a better job, it also loads by default the extended color package xcolor.sty
4. PSTricks is PostScript Tricks, viewing your PS output with a PS viewer is appropriate. Nearly all DVI-viewers cannot show the correct output.
5. You cannot run your files with pdftex or pdflatex, see topic pdfoutput
6. linestyle=dashed doesn't work after an update of pstricks.tex. You should update also pstricks.pro and pstricks.sty.
7. Error message: no room for a new dimen. See UK TeX-FAQ for what to do ...
8. \pspicture[0.5] ... doesn't work anymore! Use instead [shift=*] Read the docs!

News ...

1. 2008-09-19: update (new fading style) pst-slpe
2. 2008-02-27: new package bclogo
3. 2008-09-01: new TeXLive 2008
4. 2008-08-02: update pst-solides3d
5. 2008-07-30: update pst-optexp
6. 2008-07-22: update pst-geo
7. 2008-07-15: update pst-circ
8. 2008-06-30: update pstricks
9. 2008-06-16: update pst-func
10. 2008-06-16: update pstricks-add (new macro \psPie)
11. 2008-03-21: All PSTricks files as a TDS-tarball (TeX directory structure) PSTricks-TDS.tgz or browse through the files