--- product_id: 2333197 title: "The Latex Graphics Companion" price: "₹ 15242" currency: INR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.in/products/2333197-the-latex-graphics-companion store_origin: IN region: India --- # The Latex Graphics Companion **Price:** ₹ 15242 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Latex Graphics Companion - **How much does it cost?** ₹ 15242 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.in](https://www.desertcart.in/products/2333197-the-latex-graphics-companion) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Published Aug 2, 2007 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of the Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting series. The series editor may be contacted at frank.mittelbach@latex-project.org. 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-qualitymusic 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 class 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. Review: Lots of options discussed for graphics - The older edition was thinner and discussed many options for graphics, which the new one does too. But if you remember how LaTeX eventually took over from Plain TeX and AMS-TeX, you will recognize another pattern: that PSTricks is gaining a pretty substantial following, and a lot more pages in this second edition. The current maintainer of PSTricks, Herbert Voss, helped revise this I believe, and then came up with his own dedicated PSTricks book, also quite thick and a must-have for serious PSTricksters. But this book helps too because there are a lot of open-source documents out there--such as math textbooks people wrote over the years--which use other graphics packages so it's good to have a book on the shelf that can explain those and help you to tweak the source code of such books as you wish. Apologies that I read the title incorrectly on my first review of this (of which this is an edit), thinking it was for the LaTeX Companion's second edition, which is a must-have for large document writers because it has lots of good tricks and package descriptions for customizing your documents. Review: All you need for graphics and latex - This book together with "The LaTex Companion" represents the state of the art of any manuals for LaTeX. The book is well written and it is comprehensible even to beginners . It shows all the major feature of the most common graphics packages. The most important thing is the all the packages are free available from [...] . A really good guide for who is interested in producing high quality document and wants to write once and export in many formats. It's a pity that there is no cd-rom media included. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #2,975,577 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #292 in Word Processing Books #340 in Electronic Documents #7,298 in Software Design, Testing & Engineering (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 18 Reviews | ## Images ![The Latex Graphics Companion - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Zjbe+BPlL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lots of options discussed for graphics *by M***Y on December 1, 2013* The older edition was thinner and discussed many options for graphics, which the new one does too. But if you remember how LaTeX eventually took over from Plain TeX and AMS-TeX, you will recognize another pattern: that PSTricks is gaining a pretty substantial following, and a lot more pages in this second edition. The current maintainer of PSTricks, Herbert Voss, helped revise this I believe, and then came up with his own dedicated PSTricks book, also quite thick and a must-have for serious PSTricksters. But this book helps too because there are a lot of open-source documents out there--such as math textbooks people wrote over the years--which use other graphics packages so it's good to have a book on the shelf that can explain those and help you to tweak the source code of such books as you wish. Apologies that I read the title incorrectly on my first review of this (of which this is an edit), thinking it was for the LaTeX Companion's second edition, which is a must-have for large document writers because it has lots of good tricks and package descriptions for customizing your documents. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ All you need for graphics and latex *by O***I on March 27, 2008* This book together with "The LaTex Companion" represents the state of the art of any manuals for LaTeX. The book is well written and it is comprehensible even to beginners . It shows all the major feature of the most common graphics packages. The most important thing is the all the packages are free available from [...] . A really good guide for who is interested in producing high quality document and wants to write once and export in many formats. It's a pity that there is no cd-rom media included. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Essential resources for LaTeX users *by D***N on October 25, 2007* The second edition of the LaTeX Graphics Companion, along the second edition of the LaTeX Companion, are essential resources for LaTeX users. When one first starts using LaTeX, you need one of the commercial books or free on-line books that provide an introduction and overview of LaTeX. 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