Package: texlive-pstricks
Version: 2021.20211217-1
Let's construct mwe.tex containing
\documentclass{article} \usepackage{pstricks} \begin{document} test
\end{document}
and run
latex mwe && dvipdf mwe
or
latex mwe && dvips mwe && ps2pdf mwe.ps
This prints
%%%% WARNING: Transparency operations ignored - need to use
-dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY
on a tty. Of course, one can do as the message says and add the corresponding
command-line option. Still, I feel that the transparency stuff shouldn't even
be in the Postscript file unless it is really used. So could pstricks be a bit
more economical and not issue the transparency-related commands by default (or,
equivalently, issue them only if opacity and the like is really used in the
user's LaTeX input)? Alternatively or in addition, could ghostscript be a
little less fussy about transparency and make ALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY default?
Bug report: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/629314
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/629314. The PStricks maintainers have
been informed, too, just in case they don't have an update for this issue yet.
Thank you in advance,
Peter
