[Tex/LaTex] How to make a PS file form a TeX document with graphics

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Could someone explain me how to generate a PS file from a TeX file. I have included some graphics in my TeX file.
I used graphicx package.

I am using TeXLive

Thank you.

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Unless I misunderstood the question, I think something along the following lines should give you a PS file:

latex sample2e.tex
dvips sample2e.dvi

(The sample2e.tex was slightly modified by adding \usepackage{graphicx} in the preamble, and inserting a sample image with \includegraphics at the end.)

This uses dvips about which there is extensive documentation. Should you want a PDF, you can just complete the above steps with ps2pdf.

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Use the \graphicspath macro from the graphics/x package to specify the directories with your images:

\graphicspath{{path1/fig/}{path2/fig/}}

Then you can remove them from the \includegraphics macros and only need to change the one line to:

\graphicspath{{path1/fig-gray/}{path2/fig-gray/}}

Alternative you could make the -gray part a macro, which avoid adding new paths twice:

%\newcommand*{\gray}{-gray}% Uncomment to switch to gray-scale images
\graphicspath{{path1/fig\gray/}{path2/fig\gray/}}

This also works directly with \includegraphics:

\includegraphics[width=5in]{path1/fig\gray/foo.pdf}

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One of the more versatile packages for creating all kinds of graphs is PGF/TikZ. There is extensive documentation for it available in the PDF manual (note that this is for the CVS version, not for the last release).

I doubt it's very useful for 3D graphics but a special syntax for data visualization (like here) is currently under development and will be shipped with the next version.

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