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LaTeX Graphics with TikZ

You're reading from LaTeX Graphics with TikZ A practitioner's guide to drawing 2D and 3D images, diagrams, charts, and plots

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804618233

Length 304 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

LaTeX

Concepts

Document Preparation

Author (1):

Stefan Kottwitz

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with TikZ

2. Chapter 2: Creating the First TikZ Images FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Drawing and Positioning Nodes

4. Chapter 4: Drawing Edges and Arrows

5. Chapter 5: Using Styles and Pics

6. Chapter 6: Drawing Trees and Graphs

7. Chapter 7: Filling, Clipping, and Shading

8. Chapter 8: Decorating Paths

9. Chapter 9: Using Layers, Overlays, and Transparency

10. Chapter 10: Calculating with Coordinates and Paths

11. Chapter 11: Transforming Coordinates and Canvas

12. Chapter 12: Drawing Smooth Curves

13. Chapter 13: Plotting in 2D and 3D

14. Chapter 14: Drawing Diagrams

15. Chapter 15: Having Fun with TikZ

16. Index

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Introducing plotting

Let’s begin by discussing and briefly assessing the available options for plotting, both in the commercial software market and the open source community.

Several commercial software options are available, such as Mathematica and Matlab, as well as free and open source software such as GNU Octave, R, GNUplot, and Python with Matplotlib, for example. Any of these programs can be used to generate plots and export them as images for inclusion in your LaTeX document. However, there are some drawbacks to using third-party software:

You need to install and maintain another software installation, you may have to pay for installation and updates, and you will be dependent on the software’s functionality on a specific computer.
Imported images may appear blurry or pixelated if exported in bitmap formats such as PNG or JPG. If possible, export them as PDF images to obtain a scalable image.
Font types and the sizes of labels and numbers may...

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Authors (1)

Stefan Kottwitz

Stefan Kottwitz

Stefan Kottwitz studied mathematics in Jena and Hamburg. He works as a network and IT security engineer both for Lufthansa Industry Solutions and for Eurowings Aviation. For many years, he has been providing LaTeX support on online forums. He maintains the web forums LaTeX and goLaTeX and the Q&A sites TeXwelt and TeXnique. He runs the TeX graphics gallery sites TeXample, TikZ, and PGFplots, the TeXlive online compiler, the TeXdoc service, and the CTAN software mirror. He is a moderator of the TeX Stack Exchange site and matheplanet. He publishes ideas and news from the TeX world on his blogs LaTeX and TeX. Before this book, he authored the first edition of LaTeX Beginner's Guide in 2011, and LaTeX Cookbook in 2015, both published by Packt.

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