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It removes all the petty - niggles 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’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>. - <i>pstricks</i>’ <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> — 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 “user-oriented” interface <i>tikz</i>, may be a good - bet for you. While PDF has (in essence) the same graphical - capabilities as PostScript, it isn’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> — - 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... -<li> <i>Mfpic</i>; you liked Metafont, but can’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’t have enough memory or time? Look - at Eitan Gurari’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). -</ul> -<dl> -<dt><tt><i>dratex.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/dratex.zip">graphics/dratex</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/dratex.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/dratex/">browse</a>) -<dt><tt><i>mfpic</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/mfpic.zip">graphics/mfpic</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/mfpic.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/mfpic/">browse</a>) -<dt><tt><i>preview.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/preview.zip">macros/latex/contrib/preview</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/preview.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/preview/">browse</a>) -<dt><tt><i>pspicture.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pspicture.zip">macros/latex/contrib/pspicture</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pspicture.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pspicture/">browse</a>) -<dt><tt><i>pst-pdf.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pst-pdf.zip">macros/latex/contrib/pst-pdf</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pst-pdf.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pst-pdf/">browse</a>) -<dt><tt><i>pgf.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf.zip">graphics/pgf</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/">browse</a>) -<dt><tt><i>pict2e.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pict2e.zip">macros/latex/contrib/pict2e</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pict2e.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pict2e/">browse</a>) -<dt><tt><i>pstricks</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks.zip">graphics/pstricks</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/">browse</a>) -<dt><tt><i>tikz.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed with <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf.zip">graphics/pgf</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/">browse</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> -</body> |