[pstricks] Page Layout Advice Wanted

Herbert Voss Herbert.Voss at FU-Berlin.DE
Thu Jul 31 11:06:49 CEST 2008


Rich Shepard schrieb:
>    I am creating two process flowcharts and want to display them side-by-side
> on a tabloid size page in landscape mode (11" x 17"). I also want a title
> centered on the top of the page, titles over each flowchart, and some
> explanatory text below each flowchart.
> 
>    Not having done anything like this, I'm going through a trial and error
> process and would appreciate recommendations on how to accomplish what I
> want for output.
> 
>    What I've tried is to define two minipages and put each flowchart within a
> pspictures environment within the minipages. I have the right-side flowchart
> created and will start on the larger, left-side figure now. What's causing
> me problems is correctly sizing the minipages and pspicture environments.
> 
>    Perhaps this is not the best approach to do the job. What approach should
> I use?

\begin{pspicture}(0.49\linewidth,xxx)
...
\end{pspicture}%
\hfill
\begin{pspicture}(0.49\linewidth,xxx)
...
\end{pspicture}

two minipages side by side are also ok. Alternative you can use a
tabular with two m-columns (package array}

Herbert



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