[pdftex] fancy graphs

[Allin Cottrell]

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Luca Bortot wrote:

> I am trying to draw some graph with pdftex. I don't need gradients
> nor textures nor shadows nor any complex graphics, just circles and
> lines. But I would like to have at least colored, filled circles and
> (but this is optional) lines of different thickness. What is the
> easiest way to achieve this?

I'm not sure about "easiest", but with a little push up the learning
curve metapost is very good at this sort of thing -- with the bonus
that you don't have to do anything special to get equally good results
in PDF and postscript.

Allin Cottrell.