[texhax] Drawing colored pie chart in KOMA-Class scrreprt (preferably without manually installing pgf-pie

[Thomas Schneider]

Herbert, Suresh:

> Run this PSTricks example with `xelatex`
> 
> \documentclass{scrartcl}
> \usepackage{pstricks-add}
> 
> \begin{document}
> 
>  \psset{unit=1.5}
>  \begin{pspicture}(-3,-3)(3,3)
>  \psChart[userColor={red!30,green!30,blue!40,gray,cyan!50,
> magenta!60,cyan},
> 
> chartSep=30pt,shadow=true,shadowsize=5pt]{34.5,17.2,20.7,15.5,5.2,6.9}{6}{2}
>  \psset{nodesepA=5pt,nodesepB=-10pt}
>  \ncline{psChartO1}{psChart1}\nput{0}{psChartO1}{1000 (34.5\%)}
>  \ncline{psChartO2}{psChart2}\nput{150}{psChartO2}{500 (17.2\%)}
>  \ncline{psChartO3}{psChart3}\nput{-90}{psChartO3}{600 (20.7\%)}
>  \ncline{psChartO4}{psChart4}\nput{0}{psChartO4}{450 (15.5\%)}
>  \ncline{psChartO5}{psChart5}\nput{0}{psChartO5}{150 (5.2\%)}
>  \ncline{psChartO6}{psChart6}\nput{0}{psChartO6}{200 (6.9\%)}
>  \bfseries%
>  \rput(psChartI1){Taxes}\rput(psChartI2){Rent}\rput(psChartI3){Bills}
>  \rput(psChartI4){Car}\rput(psChartI5){Gas}\rput(psChartI6){Food}
>  \end{pspicture}
> 
> \end{document}

This crashed for me in LaTeX (i.e. 'latex') until I removed the blank
line after the one containin 'magenta!60,cyan},'  Then it worked
beautifully.  Apparently the function psChart is sensitive to the
extra white space.

Tom

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