title: Installing pstricks in windows with MikTex
body: <p>I've been trying to get pstricks to work but to no avail. I am using Miktex, and I downloaded the package from it packages manager. But when I try to build it, it always fails:</p>
  
  <pre><code>This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.1 (MiKTeX 2.8)
  entering extended mode
  (C:\xxxx\Desktop\untitled-6.tex
  LaTeX2e &lt;2009/09/24&gt;
  Babel &lt;v3.8l&gt; and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, ge
  rman, ngerman, german-x-2009-06-19, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, french, portuguese, l
  oaded.
  ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\base\article.cls"
  Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
  ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\base\size10.clo"))
  ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\oberdiek\epstopdf.sty"
  ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\oberdiek\epstopdf-base.sty"
  ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\generic\oberdiek\infwarerr.sty")
  ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\oberdiek\grfext.sty")
  ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\oberdiek\kvoptions.sty"
  ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\graphics\keyval.sty")
  ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\generic\oberdiek\kvsetkeys.sty"
  ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\generic\oberdiek\etexcmds.sty")))
  ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\generic\oberdiek\pdftexcmds.sty"
  ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\generic\oberdiek\ifluatex.sty")
  ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\generic\oberdiek\ltxcmds.sty"))
  
  Package epstopdf Warning: No graphics package `graphic{s,x}' loaded.
  
  )) ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\graphics\graphics.sty"
  ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\graphics\trig.sty")
  ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\00miktex\graphics.cfg")
  ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\xelatex\xetex-def\xetex.def"))
  ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\pstricks\pstricks.sty"
  ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\generic\pstricks\pstricks.tex"
  `PSTricks' v1.29  &lt;2009/05/19&gt; (tvz)
  
  ======================================================================
  starting package maintenance...
  installation directory: "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8"
  package repository: http://ftp.eq.uc.pt/software/TeX/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/
  lightweight database digest: ecef59fd2592919972b79117b8fcd1c8
  going to download 1520 bytes
  going to install 4 file(s) (1 package(s))
  downloading http://ftp.eq.uc.pt/software/TeX/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/xetex-pstricks.tar.lzma...
  1520 bytes, 8.84 KB/Sec
  extracting files from xetex-pstricks.tar.lzma...
  miktex-xetex.exe: Windows API error 87: The parameter is incorrect.
  
  miktex-xetex.exe: Data: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.8\miktex\config\1567d83d412396067c84a669e65114a0.fndb
  ======================================================================
  ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\generic\pstricks\pstricks.con"))
  ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\xcolor\xcolor.sty"
  ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\00miktex\color.cfg")))
  (C:\xxxx\Desktop\untitled-6.aux)
  ! Undefined control sequence.
  &lt;recently read&gt; \c@lor@to@ps 
  
  l.8 \psframe(0.7,2)(3.3,3)
  
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  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Anything special I have to do?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks
  edit:</p>
  
  <p>Here is the code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>\documentclass{article}
  \usepackage{epstopdf}
  \usepackage{graphics}
  \usepackage{pstricks}
  \begin{document}
  \begin{figure}
  \begin{pspicture}(4,5)
  \psframe(0.7,2)(3.3,3)
  \rput(2,2.5){First Example}
  \end{pspicture}
  \end{figure}
  \end{document}
  </code></pre>