The LaTeX Graphics Companion by Addison-Wesley Professional

The LaTeX Graphics Companion: Illustrating Documents with TeX and Postscript(R) (Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting)

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The LaTeX Graphics Companion: Illustrating Documents with TeX and Postscript(R) (Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting)

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Label:	Addison-Wesley Professional
UPC:	785342854695
Pages:	608
Binding:	Paperback
Publication Date:	1997-04-25
Published By:	Addison-Wesley Professional
ASIN:	0201854694
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This handy reference describes techniques and tricks needed to illustrate LaTeX documents, and answers common user questions about graphics and PostScript fonts. It provides the first full description of the standard LaTeX color and graphics packages, and shows how you can combine TeX and PostScript capabilities to produce beautifully illustrated pages. Following the successful format of The LaTeX Companion, this new book is an invaluable LaTeX resource for people incorporating pictures into text.

You will learn how to: incorporate graphic files into a LaTeX document, program technical diagrams using several differant languages, produce color pictures, achieve special effects with fragments of embedded PostScript, and make high-quality music scores and games diagrams.

You will find detailed descriptions of: important packages like Xy-pic, PSTricks, and METAPOST; the standard LaTeX color and graphics packages; PostScript fonts and how to use them in LaTeX; the dvips dvi to PostScript driver; and Ghostscript, the free interpreter that lets you view or print PostScript files even if you do not have a PostScript printer.

The authors examine a number of packages that extend or modify LaTeX's basic illustration features, and present hundreds of examples of useful solutions to graphics and font problems. In addition to packages for general drawing, the book also presents specific tools for mathematicians, physicists, chemists, engineers, and people interested in games and music typesetting.

All the packages and programs described in this book are freely available in public software archives, and the source code for all examples has been placed on CTAN, the TeX archives (details on page 497).

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Power Latex but not for the Faint of Heart - Reviewed on 2008-01-24

Need to do charts or graphics using latex? Then this is the book for you. It's the most advanced and complete book on Latex graphics that I've seen. If you would like to implement a reporting system that can draw charts using latex then this book is a must. Though I've not used latex in a while, I do remember that this one is not for the faint of heart. I do put it into the one of "must have" latex books.

Good Examples, quite incomplete - Reviewed on 2004-04-27

5 customers found this review helpful.

Many times in this book I've seen exactly what I want to do, but the LaTeX code is not always shown. I use this book as a hint to what can be done, and then I search on the web for LaTeX examples. I am fairly disappointed, and often find myself more frustrated after reading a section than I was before.

As an example (for those of you who have the book), Figure 4.1 is referenced as an example of how to use \multido, but the book does not have (or I could not find) the corresponding LaTeX.

Like the JC Penny catalogue: a wish book - Reviewed on 1999-06-10

17 customers found this review helpful.

I would have to hazard a guess that this is probably the most advanced LaTeX book on the market. It is lots of fun to look at with its many esoteric uses of LaTeX--typesetting bridge or chess game diagrams, music notation, optical illusions--in other words, stuff that I wish had enough time to learn but probably never will. However, I do find myself looking at this book more than I initially imagined because it is quite useful on subjects such as fonts and the "dvips" program. For these areas, you'll definitely find things to learn and use even if you aren't ever going to typeset Mozart's lost symphony or fiddle with Encapsulated Post-Script code at the primitive command level.

Almost Perfect - Reviewed on 1999-01-15

6 customers found this review helpful.

Nicely crafted guidebook to the graphics and fonts. PSTricks, color, chess, chemistry and music - helps you to typeset all of it, and more. My only complain is that the chapter on fonts is vague at places - because the book tries to be so encyclopedic, I guess

LaTeX graphics bible - Reviewed on 1998-05-12

15 customers found this review helpful.

If you use LaTeX and are serious about including graphics in your documents, then this is the book to read. I've never seen a more complete and readable explanation of using graphics with LaTeX.

However, I don't recommend that raw beginners use this book. You really need some knowledge of LaTeX to understand what's going on. If you're an advanced user, THE LATEX GRAPHICS COMPANION is indispensible.

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Book Subjects

Desktop publishing software
Programming languages
Computer Programming Languages
Desktop Publishing
Computers
Computers - Other Applications
Computer Books: Desktop Publish
Computer Books: General
Computer Graphics - General
Electronic Publishing
Miscellaneous Software
Computers / Electronic Publishing
Desktop Publishing - General
Computer programs
Computerized typesetting
LaTeX (Computer file)
PostScript (Computer program l
PostScript (Computer program language)
Scientific illustration