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Package pictex:
Picture drawing macros for TeX and LaTeX.

PicTeX is an early, and very comprehensive drawing package, that mostly draws by placing myriads of small dots to make up pictures. It has a tendency to run out of space, most especially of allowable dimensions registers; packages m-pictex and pictexwd deal with the register problem, in different ways.

Note that full documentation may be bought via the PC-TeX site, though a command summary is available as free software.

Alternatively, a front-end package such as mathsPiC, which covers all of PicTeX and has a complete and free manual, could be used.

Getting it

If possible, get this package from your distribution using its installation manager. (For installation help, click on your distribution's name.)

Distribution Package name
MiKTeX pictex
TeX Live pictex

You can also visit pictex's CTAN directory to browse the source or download the material for installation by hand.

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Documentation on CTAN
Readme
Command summary
Documentation off CTAN -none known-
Maintainers
Michael Wichura
Version 1.1
License LPPL version 1, or any later version at the user's option
Related packages
qfig:
DOS graphics program.
epic:
Enhance LaTeX picture mode.
pictexsum:
A summary of PicTeX commands.
pictex2:
Adds relative coordinates and improves the \plot command.
Keywords
graphics created inside TeX (pictures, PSTricks, PGF, etc.)
Characterizations
primary:
Graphics > Inside TeX

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