I find that pgf/tikz plays very nicely with LaTeX (pdflatex) and has, so
far, allowed me to pretty much everything I need to do.  It also works
nicely with beamer's overlays.  It can be found here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgf/

Best,
Indridi


Paul Johnson wrote:

> Stephen Haptonstahl wrote:
>
>> For those who want to "just draw" LaTeX source, jPicEdt
>> (http://jpicedt.sourceforge.net/) makes this easy.  It doesn't require
>> pstricks, but if you also use that package by just adding
>> \usepackage{pst-all} to the header then you can use some really cool
>> features in jPicEdt like shading hand-drawn regions.  I highly recommend
>> this combo.  Source and the resulting PDF for a simple example are
>> available on my Crash Course in LaTeX
>> (http://www.haptonstahl.org/latex/work_drawingpictures.php).
>>
>> Best,
>> Steve
>>
>> --
>> Stephen R. Haptonstahl
>>
>>
> Generally, I have quit using pstricks because pdflatex can't manage
> documents with pstricks.
>
> But I just tested this out.  In Fedora Core Linux 5 with Sun jdk-1.5.0,
> I have mixed results with jPicEdt.  The official release version of
> jPicEdt does not run (hangs at "loading preferences") and the latest
> pre-release does run, but exhibits some peculiar behaviors on my
> systems.  The Bezier curves don't allow editing (can't drag nodes), and
> the Bezier curves that are generated cause latex to crash because of
> illegal multiplication.  I can confirm that after deleting the Bezier
> curves, then laTeX can make a nice looking document with a jPicEdt
> output drawing.  It is nice that you can just write LaTeX math into the
> text of jPicEdt and it renders well in the LaTeX document.
>
> In R, I have had good luck drawing illustrations and the png output has
> transparent background by default.  For detailed line drawings, xfig has
> served me very well.  If you use the special text feature, you can write
> LaTeX math into text and then a program like LyX can directly import an
> xfig file, without any pre-posting.
>
> pj
>
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