PSTricks: Graphics and PostScript for TeX and LaTeX

Herbert Voss

$50.00

Publication Date: August 11th, 2011

Publisher:

UIT Cambridge Ltd.

ISBN:

9781906860134

Pages:

928

Description

When TeX was originally developed, graphics capabilities were not a major concern. As a result TeX itself provides only basic graphics support, and while the introduction of LaTeX improved matters, something more was needed. PSTricks addresses this by providing a very wide range of graphics facilities - from simple lines and curves, to 3D images, trees, knots, and charts, etc., with support for transformations, overlays and more - to form a complete graphics environment.

This book is a comprehenseive reference guide to PSTricks. It contains hundreds of examples (64 pages in colour), with the source code available online.

Intended audience
-Mathematicians, engineers, scientists, statisticians & economists
-Graphic artists
-College staff and students
-Book and journal publishers

About the Author

Herbert Voss studied electrical engineering in Hanover and Berlin, and has a Doctorate of Engineering in Power Electronics. He has been a high-school teacher of mathematics, physics and computer science, and a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin. For several years he has been heavily involved in maintaining the PSTricks suite of tools for producing very high quality PostSctript graphics within LaTeX.

Praise for PSTricks: Graphics and PostScript for TeX and LaTeX

"Wow! (Amazon.de customer review.) "Lots of examples (with source code, which is available to download) greatly help you create your own graphics". "Numerous examples illustrate the possibilities of PSTricks and give you new ideas. An important book for all LaTeX fans." "An ideal reference book."