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PGF is a macro package for creating graphics. It is platform- and format-independent and works together with the most important TeX backend drivers, including pdftex and dvips. It comes with a user-friendly syntax layer called TikZ. Its usage is similar to pstricks and the standard picture environment. PGF works with plain (pdf-)TeX, (pdf-)LaTeX, and ConTeXt. Unlike pstricks, it can produce either PostScript or PDF output. date: 2014-02-26 21:08:13 +0100
Font definition files, macros and font metrics for freely- available Adobe Type 1 fonts. The font set consists of the 'LaserWriter 35' set (originally 'freely available' because embedded in PostScript printers), and a variety of other free fonts, together with some additions. Note that while many of the fonts are available in PostScript (and other) printers, most publishers require fonts embedded in documents, which requires that you have the fonts in your TeX system. Fortunately, there are free versions of the fonts from URW (available in the URW base5 bundle). The base set of text fonts covered by PSNFSS are: AvantGarde, Bookman, Courier, Helvetica, New Century Schoolbook, Palatino, Symbol, Times Roman and Zapf Dingbats. In addition, the fonts Bitstream Charter and Adobe Utopia are covered (those fonts were contributed to the Public Domain by their commercial foundries). Separate packages are provided to load each font for use as main text font. The packages helvet (which allows Helvetica to be loaded with its size scaled to something more nearly appropriate for its use as a Sans-Serif font to match Times) and pifont (which provides the means to select single glyphs from symbol fonts) are tailored to special requirements of their fonts. Mathematics are covered by the mathptmx package, which constructs passable mathematics from a combination of Times Roman, Symbol and some glyphs from Computer Modern, and by Pazo Math (optionally extended with the fpl small-caps and old-style figures fonts) which uses Palatino as base font, with the mathpazo fonts. The bundle as a whole is part of the LaTeX 'required' set of packages. date: 2011-05-30 10:00:44 +0200
The pst-3d package provides basic macros for shadows, tilting and three dimensional representations of text or graphical objects. date: 2010-02-15 10:59:10 +0100
Pst-coil is a PSTricks based package for coils and zigzags and for coil and zigzag node connections. date: 2011-09-19 17:03:12 +0200
Pst-eps is a PSTricks-based package for exporting PSTricks images 'on the fly' to encapsulated PostScript (EPS) image files, which can then be read into a document in the usual way. date: 2007-02-28 00:07:21 +0100
Pst-fill is a PSTricks-based package for filling and tiling areas or characters. date: 2007-03-11 15:39:31 +0100
Pst-grad is a PSTricks based package for filling with colour gradients. Supported are colours in the RGB, CMYK or HSB models. Other colour gradient mechanisms are to be found in package pst-slpe. date: 2007-07-11 11:50:31 +0200
PostScript lacks a lot of basic operators such as tan, acos, asin, cosh, sinh, tanh, acosh, asinh, atanh, exp (with e base). Also (oddly) cos and sin use arguments in degrees. Pst-math provides all those operators in a header file pst-math.pro with wrappers pst-math.sty and pst-math.tex. In addition, sinc, gauss, gammaln and bessel are implemented (only partially for the latter). pst-math is designed essentially to work with pst- plot but can be used in whatever PS code (such as pstricks SpecialCoor "!", which is useful for placing labels). The package also provides a routine SIMPSON for numerical integration and a solver of linear equation systems. date: 2010-10-02 23:46:37 +0200
The package enables the user to connect information, and to place labels, without knowing (in advance) the actual positions of the items to be connected, or where the connecting line should go. The macros are useful for making graphs and trees, mathematical diagrams, linguistic syntax diagrams, and so on. The package contents were previously distributed as a part of the pstricks base distribution; the package serves as an extension to PSTricks. date: 2014-03-26 09:37:24 +0100
The package provides plotting of data (typically from external files), using PSTricks. Plots may be configured using a wide variety of parameters. date: 2014-03-12 18:05:09 +0100