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-<head>
-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label drawing</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>Drawing with TeX</h3>
-<p/>There are many packages to do pictures in (La)TeX itself (rather than
-importing graphics created externally), ranging from simple use of
-LaTeX <code>picture</code> environment, through enhancements like
-<i>eepic</i>, to
-sophisticated (but slow) drawing with PicTeX. Depending on your type
-of drawing, and setup, here are a few systems you may consider:
-<ul>
-<li> PicTeX is a venerable, and very powerful, system, that draws
- by placing dots on the page to give the effect of a line or curve. While
- this has the potential of great power, it is (of course) much slower
- than any of the other established packages. What&#8217;s more, there
- are problems with its <a href="FAQ-docpictex.html">documentation</a>.
-<li> <i>epic</i> was designed to make use of the LaTeX
- <code>picture</code> environment somewhat less agonising;
- <i>eepic</i> extends it, and is capable of using <i>tpic</i>
- <code>\</code><code>special</code> commands to improve printing performance. (If the
- <code>\</code><code>special</code>s aren&#8217;t available, the <i>eepicemu</i> will do the
- business, far less efficiently.
-<li> <i>pict2e</i>; this was advertised in
- <a href="FAQ-books.html">the LaTeX manual</a>, but didn&#8217;t appear for nearly
- ten years after publication of the book! It removes all the petty
- restrictions that surround the use of the <code>picture</code>
- environment. It therefore suffers <em>only</em> from the rather
- eccentric drawing language of the environment, and is a far more
- useful tool than the original environment has ever been. (Note that
- <i>pict2e</i> supersedes David Carlisle&#8217;s stop-gap
- <i>pspicture</i>.)
-<li> <i>PSTricks</i>; this gives you access to all the power of
- PostScript from TeX itself, by sophisticated use of
- <a href="FAQ-specials.html"><code>\</code><code>special</code> commands</a>. Since PostScript is itself a
- pretty powerful programming language, many astounding things can in
- principle be achieved using <i>PSTricks</i> (a wide range of
- contributed packages, ranging from world mapping to lens design
- diagrams, is available).
- <i>Pstricks</i>&#8217; <code>\</code><code>special</code>s are
- by default specific to <i>dvips</i>, but VTeX (both in its
- commercial and in its free versions) understands them. PDFTeX
- users may use <i>pst-pdf</i>, which (like
- <i>epstopdf</i> &#8212; see
- <a href="FAQ-pdftexgraphics.html">PDFLaTeX graphics</a>) generates
- PDF files using an auxiliary program, from <i>PSTricks</i>
- commands (<i>pst-pdf</i> also requires a recent installation of
- the <i>preview</i> package).
-<p/> There is a <i>PSTricks</i> mailing list
- (<a href="mailto:pstricks@tug.org"><i>pstricks@tug.org</i></a>) which you may
- <a href="http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pstricks">join</a>, or you may
- just browse the
- <a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/pstricks/">list archives</a>.
-<li> <i>pgf</i>: while <i>pstricks</i> is very powerful and
- convenient, using it with PDFLaTeX is an awful fidget: if you
- simply want the graphical capabilities, <i>pgf</i>, together with
- its rather pleasing &#8220;user-oriented&#8221; interface <i>tikz</i>, may be a good
- bet for you. While PDF has (in essence) the same graphical
- capabilities as PostScript, it isn&#8217;t programmable; <i>pgf</i> provides
- common LaTeX commands that will utilise the graphical
- capabilities of both PostScript and PDF equally.
-<li> MetaPost; you liked Metafont, but never got to grips with font files?
- Try <a href="FAQ-MP.html">MetaPost</a> &#8212;
- all the power of Metafont, but it generates PostScript figures; MetaPost
- is nowadays part of most serious (La)TeX distributions. Knuth
- uses it for all his work&#8230;
-<p/> Note that you can &#8220;embed&#8221; MetaPost source in your document (i.e.,
- keep it in-line with your LaTeX code), using the <i>emp</i>
- package.
-<li> <i>Mfpic</i>; you liked Metafont, but can&#8217;t understand the
- language? The package makes up Metafont or MetaPost code for you
- within using familiar-looking TeX macros. Not <em>quite</em> the
- full power of MetaPost, but a friendlier interface; of course, with
- MetaPost output, the results can be used equally well in either
- LaTeX or PDFLaTeX.
-<li> You liked PicTeX but don&#8217;t have enough memory or time? Look
- at Eitan Gurari&#8217;s <i>dratex</i>, which is as powerful as most
- other TeX drawing packages, but is an entirely new
- implementation, which is not as hard on memory, is much more
- readable (and is fully documented).
-<li> You fancy the idea of embedding the source of drawings (as with
- <i>emp</i>, but you like another drawing tool? In principle,
- it&#8217;s possible to do the same with other tools; for example
- <i>asyfig</i> allows you to embed
- <i>asymptote</i> code in your document.
-</ul>
-<p/>Some of the free-standing graphics applications may also be used
-(effectively) in-line in LaTeX documents; examples are
-<dl>
-<dt>asymptote<dd>A package, <i>asymptote</i>, defines an environment
- <code>asy</code> which arranges that its contents are included
- (after &#8220;enough&#8221; runs, in the LaTeX way).
-<p/> Basically, you write
- <blockquote>
- <code>\</code><code>begin{asy}</code>
- <code>&lt;<i>asymptote code</i>&gt;</code>
- <code>\</code><code>end{asy}</code>
- </blockquote><p>
- and then execute
-<blockquote>
-<pre>
-latex document
-asy document-*.asy
-latex document
-</pre>
-</blockquote><p>
-<dt>egplot<dd>Allows you to incorporate <i>GNUplot</i>
- code in your document, again for processing outside of LaTeX; the
- design of this package was strongly influenced by that of <i>emp</i>
-<dt>emp<dd>Another of the same, this time for MetaPost graphics.
-</dl>
-<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>asymptote.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/asymptote.zip">graphics/asymptote</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/asymptote/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/asymptote.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>dratex.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/dratex.zip">graphics/dratex</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/dratex/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/dratex.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>egplot</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/egplot.zip">macros/latex/contrib/egplot</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/egplot/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/egplot.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>emp</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/emp.zip">macros/latex/contrib/emp</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/emp/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/emp.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>epic.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/epic.zip">macros/latex/contrib/epic</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/epic/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/epic.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>eepic.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/eepic.zip">macros/latex/contrib/eepic</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/eepic/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/eepic.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>eepicemu.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/eepic.zip">macros/latex/contrib/eepic</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/eepic/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/eepic.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>emp.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/emp.zip">macros/latex/contrib/emp</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/emp/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/emp.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>mfpic</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/mfpic.zip">graphics/mfpic</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/mfpic/">browse the directory</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>preview.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/preview.zip">macros/latex/contrib/preview</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/preview/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/preview.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>pspicture.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pspicture.zip">macros/latex/contrib/pspicture</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pspicture/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pspicture.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>pst-pdf.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pst-pdf.zip">macros/latex/contrib/pst-pdf</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pst-pdf/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-pdf.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>pgf.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pgf.zip">graphics/pgf</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pgf.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>pict2e.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pict2e.zip">macros/latex/contrib/pict2e</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pict2e/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pict2e.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>pictex.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pictex.zip">graphics/pictex</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pictex/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pictex.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>pstricks</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks.zip">graphics/pstricks</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pstricks.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>tikz.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed with <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pgf.zip">graphics/pgf</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pgf.html">catalogue entry</a>
-</dl>
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=drawing">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=drawing</a>
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