[pstricks] When to use metapost...when to use pstricks
Herbert Voss
LaTeX at zedat.fu-berlin.de
Thu Jul 14 12:50:45 CEST 2005
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
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