## LaTeX Picture Environment

Supported device
This driver creates a text file containing commands for drawing in the LaTeX picture environment, bracketted by \begin{picture} and \end{picture}. The file can be included in a LaTeX document.

If you have the option of including a PostScript file in your LaTeX document, then that will usually give much better results than using this driver, which has very limited capabilities.

Device type code
/LATEX

Default file name
pgplot.tex

Default view surface dimensions
The default picture size is 6 inches by 6 inches (which corresponds to 1728×1728 units where a unit is 0.25pt = 1/288 inch). The picture size can be changed by using PGPAP in the PGPLOT program.

Resolution
The driver rounds coordinates to multiples of 0.25pt (1/288 inch).

Color capability
None.

Obtaining hardcopy
Embed the file in a LaTeX document and use the normal LaTeX tools to process it, e.g.,
\documentstyle{article}
\begin{document}
\input pgplot.tex
\end{document}

Limitations
The LaTeX picture environment has a very limited set of primitives. In particular, diagonal lines must be composed out of dots. This can lead to very large files. For some graphs (especially with a lot of shaded areas), the capacity of many LaTeX systems can easily be exceeded.

Author
Originally written by Grant McIntosh (gmcint@relay.drev.dnd.ca), February 1995.