In an earlier article I talked about using a picture environment in LaTeX
to add lines and text over an image. In another article I showed how to draw
with PostScript, including using Encapsulated PostScript to include arbitrary images.
In this article I want to cover the pros and cons of these methods and introduce a third method: TikZ.
We can use PostScript’s Endpage procedure to e.g. add a signature to each
page of a PDF file, using only ghostscript.
Using Acrobat Reader’s ability to add text et cetera has proven unreliable for me. On multiple occasions I have lost all the text added to a PDF file. When your filling in 20-plus pages worth of permit forms this is a huge waste of time and extremely annoying.
So I set out to find another way using the free and open-source tools I have available.
This script “image for LaTeX” is meant for generating LaTeX figure
environments of pictures.
As an engineer, I often do diverse calculations that I want to save in my
logbooks which I write in LaTeX.
Up to now I’ve either formatted those by hand or used the listings package
to include calculations made in IPython.
Most of the things I write, be it software or something else, are under revision control with git. Mostly because …
Making labels for chemicals with LaTeX.
The chemlabels package for LaTeX.
I bought a packet of 500 labels, see below. On the left is the front of the package. A page …
This package contains Encapsulated PostScript versions of the symbols used to label chemicals, according to EU directive 67/548/EEC …