[pstricks] Fwd: New on CTAN: pdftricks2

[Herbert Voss]

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Betreff: New on CTAN: pdftricks2
Datum: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 13:14:36 +0100 (CET)
Von: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann at dante.de>
Antwort an: ctan-ann at dante.de
Organisation: Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
An: ctan-ann at dante.de

Christian Reibiger submitted the

   pdftricks

package


Summary description: A LaTeX package to use PSTricks code with PDF output.
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
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This package provides automatization facilities to use the pstricks 
package with
pdflatex. It is intended to be of easy use and interoperability with 
latex and
pdflatex, namely both show the same result.

The pdftricks2 package circumvents the problem that pdflatex can not handle
ps-code by writing an extra latex file that contains only the figure. 
This files
are converted to dvi to ps and then to pdf. Finally the resulting 
pdf-pictures
are included in the text as a graphic. This process can be handled 
automatically
by the package but it needs to have the possibility to execute system 
commands
(start pdflatex with option--enable-write18 or -shell-escape). If you do 
not
want to grant this rights you still can use the package but you have to 
execute
a shell script the package writes yourself to produce the pdf-pictures. 
In this
case you have to run pdftex again to include the pictures in your document.

The package tries to show the same results when used with latex as for 
pdflatex.
However there are some side effects of using this package as described 
in the
documentation.

Although this package is inspired by the pdftricks package, it is coded 
from
scratch. The pdftricks package has some flaws that are circumvented by
pdftricks2. For example you have to gather all configurations you need 
for your
pictures in one place. Furthermore it is not possible to share 
configuration
code between your figures and the main text. Also the pdftricks package 
does not
use the provided limits of the figure you produce but rather assumes it 
fits on
a standard page and cuts everything away that does not look like being
important.

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This package is located at
    http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pdftricks2
.  More information is at
    http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pdftricks2
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear).  We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schöpf



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