On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Gour wrote:
I'd like to hear more regarding the drawing tools used with beamer/LyX.
Anything that produces a file in .eps format can be inserted directly into the document.
afaics, in the beamer manual, pstricks does not work with pdflatex?
This is correct.
Is the ps4pdf right solution?
Yes. If you follow the directions for adding ps4pdf to LyX you'll have a new choice, PDF4, on the View and File->Export menus. Use those.
I am thinking about the power of pgf (TkiZ) package and how does it compare with e.g. metapost/pstricks ?
Others need to address this. There are so many high quality applications for vector graphics that one could spend a lot of time evaluating them all and trying to select the "best". What I did was consider the needs I had, found a couple of solutions, learned to use them, and ignored the rest. This is not to suggest that everyone should do the same.
Another option would be to use e.g. inkscape (which provides LaTeX with PSTricks macros output format) & to have pgf backe-end so that inkscape can integrate LaTeX fonts and macros ready for pgf & inclusion in beamer presentation?
What are you drawing? How much time do you want to spend on each figure? Are you sufficiently fluent in one of the drawing languages (such as PSTricks and pgf) that you can create what you want as quickly as with a visual editor (such as tgif, jPicEdit, ipe and a ton of others)?
What is the status of SVG support in LyX/LaTeX?
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