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.
