Graphics

• Importing graphics in LaTeX
  • Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX2e (Keith Reckdahl) (version 2.0, December 15, 1997) (pdf) (French translation)
  • Graphics and Colour with LaTeX (Patrick W. Daly) (PDF) (PS)
  • dvips 5.66a (February 1997) (Tomas Rokicki) ( html manual)
  • Example illustrating the 68 predefined colors in dvips (Stephan Boettcher)
• Graphics Tools
  • gnuplot manual (version 3.7, PDF) (see also gnuplot web page and supplementary material)
  • mfpic (Thomas Leathrum & Geoffrey Tobin)
  • mkpic (perl-script for easy mfpic writing) (Wybo Dekker) (1998)
  • TeXdraw (Peter Kabal)
  • xjpdraw User's Manual (J.P. Merlet) (October 6, 1995)
  • Graph-TeX User's Manual (John Pliam) (version 1.0beta, February 9, 1994)
  • tgif (TGIF Home page)
  • xfig
  • TeXtyl: a line-drawing interface for TeX PDF(John S. Renner, 14 March 1987, 77 pages)
  • IPE (Integrated Picture Environment)
  • GYve
  • Bibliothèque graphique en Python (Vincent Zoonekynd)
  • See also the graphics packages on our packages page.
• MetaPost
  • Introduction to MetaPost (John Hobby) (pdf)
  • MetaPost manual (John Hobby) (pdf) (French translation, from here)
  • Drawing graphs with MetaPost (John Hobby) (pdf) (French translation, from here)
  • MetaPost WEB source
  • The MetaPost page
  • Many examples (Vincent Zoonekynd) (original page here) (Attention: very large); the two metapost files needed for these examples are metapost.mp and macros.mp.
  • Examples from Marc van Dongen
  • Examples
  • Puzzling graphics in METAPOST (Hans Hagen) (pdf)
  • The Metafun manual (part of ConTeXt) (Hans Hagen, 27 October 2000)
  • EMP: Encapsulated METAPOST for LaTeX (Thorsten Ohl, 1997)
  • Some Experiences in Running METAFONT and MetaPost(Peter Wilson, 2000)
  • Creating 3D animations with METAPOST (Denis Roegel, TUGboat Volume 18 (1997), No. 4, pages 274-283) (pdf). Same in PostScript.
    The whole set of these 3D animations is available on CTAN.
  • The METAOBJ tutorial and reference manual (Denis Roegel, June 14, 2001): a metapost package for high-level 2-dimensional objects; available on CTAN.
  • The Melusine site (containing in particular translations of Hobby's manuals)
  • Examples in METAPOST (Robert Spalek) (6.12.1998)
  • CSTUG bulletin with articles on METAPOST (1998)
  • Curves in METAPOST (Andreas Scherer)
  • Metapost with groff
  • A macro routine for writing text along a path in metapost (original site) (Santiago Muelas)
  • METAGRAPH a graphical front-end for metapost (Santiago Muelas)
  • Une introduction à MetaPost (Laurent Chéno, 1999) (in French)
  • Functional Metapost (Joachim Korittkys, from here)
  • Functional Metapost for LaTeX (Marco Kuhlmann, 2001)
  • Document on mfpic and metapost (in Cezch) (Miroslava Krátká, 2001)
  • metapost introduction (14 pages, German) (Johannes Hüsing, 2002)
  • metapost introduction (93 pages) (André Heck, 2003)
• Conversion Tools
  • bm2font: see fonts
  • ``Halftone'' fonts: see fonts
  • jpeg2ps (JPEG to PostScript wrapper) (see also here)
  • WMF2EPS: simplifies converting Windows native graphics format WMF/EMF into EPS format with respect to the original WMF bounding box.
  • transfig (Micah Beck)
  • psfixbb - fix the BoundingBox in a Postscript file
• The PostScript Language
  • (almost) everything about Postscript
  • See also Adobe's Technical Notes, especially:
    • PostScript Language Document Structuring Conventions
    • EPSF Format Specification