The LATEX typesetting System remains a popular choice for typesetting a wide variety of
documents from papers journal articles and presentations to books-especially those that
include technical text or demand high-quality composition. This book is the most comprehensive
guide to making illustrations in LATEX documents and it has been completely revised and
expanded to include the latest developments in LATEX graphics. The authors describe the most
widely used packages and provide hundreds of solutions to the most commonly encountered LATEX
illustration problems. This book will show you how to . Incorporate graphics files into a LATEX
document . Program technical diagrams using several languages including METAPOST PSTricks
and XY-pic . Use color in your LATEX projects including presentations . Create special-purpose
graphics such as high-quality music scores and games diagrams . Produce complex graphics for a
variety of scientific and engineering disciplines New to this edition: . Updated and expanded
coverage of the PSTricks and METAPOST languages . Detailed explanations of major new packages
for graphing and 3-D figures . Comprehensive description of the xcolor package . Making
presentations with the beamer dass . The latest versions of gaming and scientific packages
There are more than 1100 fully tested examples that illustrate the text and solve graphical
problems and tasks-all ready to run! All the packages and examples featured in this book are
freely downloadable from the Comprehensive TEX Archive Network (CTAN). The LATEX Graphics
Companion Second Edition is more than ever an indispensable reference for anyone wishing to
incorporate graphics into LATEX. As befits the subject the book has been typeset with LATEX in
a two-color design.
