[OS X TeX] PDF from LaTeX and Adobe Illustrator
Gary L. Gray
gray at engr.psu.edu
Thu Jun 30 18:22:47 CEST 2005
On Jun 30, 2005, at 12:10 PM, Aaron Jackson wrote:
>
> On Jun 30, 2005, at 11:40 AM, Gary L. Gray wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Wow, that seems like a lot of work! I don't mean to turn this
>>> into a "my work flow is better than yours" discussion and this is
>>> floating of topic, but it seems that gnuplot can do everything
>>> you need and the output is a combination of LaTeX and eps...
>>>
>>
>> No problem. We are always looking for alternatives. Of course, I
>> suspect you can't do figures like this:
>>
>> <http://www.esm.psu.edu/faculty/gray/book/RV-with-ramp.pdf>
>>
>> or this:
>>
>> <http://www.esm.psu.edu/faculty/gray/book/two-balls-two-strings.pdf>
>>
>> in gnuplot. ;-)
>>
>
> I see that I am not thinking globally enough. Of course, gnuplot
> is designed to plot functions and sets of data points. I suppose
> one could coerce gnuplot to produce similar output as shown in the
> above examples, but that would be way too much work.
"Coerce" might not be quite the right word -- "bludgeon" might be
more appropriate. :-)
> However, gnuplot is a great tool for the trajectory example shown
> on http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/wftpdf/
I completely agree.
-- Gary
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