High quality pictures in LaTeX

Piyush P Kurur

March 30, 2015

Drawing pictures and graphs

Vector graphics

  • Description of pictures via Mathematics

  • Infinite scalability

  • Metafont, metapost

PGF/TikZ

  • PGF is a vector graphics library in TeX

  • TikZ is a library on top of PGF.

  • Easy to integrate in your document

  • Disadvantage: slow to build large pictures.

TikZ libraries

  • Shapes
  • Automata
  • trees

Graphviz

  • Give graph symbolically
  • various layout algorithms: dot, neato, circo etc.
  • formats: svg, tikz, ps etc.

Use directly in LaTeX

  • via the dot2texi package

  • can use tikz for rendering.

  • command 'pdflatex --shell-escape'