[pstricks] When to use metapost...when to use pstricks

[Herbert Voss]

Jan Steffan wrote:
> On Thursday 14 July 2005 00:30, Christopher Ellison wrote:
> 
>>I have a 'simple' question.  Pstricks is nice because I can have the
>>source for my figures directly in the source of my document...it is also
>>very nice because of the all powerful packages and tools that come with
>>pstricks.  I have also seen metapost.  
> 
> 
> I'm sorry to bring up yet another option, but pgf might be worth a look, too:
> http://www.sf.net/projects/pgf
> It's developed by Till Tantau (author of the beamer package) and has the 
> benefit of working both with latex and pdflatex without any hacks like 
> ps4pdf.

and why can't you use ps2pdf? Did you need character protrusion?

Herbert