The pstool package

A package like pst-pdf for processing PostScript graphics with psfrag labels within pdfLaTeX documents. The difference with this package is that every graphic is compiled individually, drastically speeding up compilation time when only a single figure needs re-processing.

An example and a testsuite is available in the source repository for the package: https://github.com/wspr/pstool

Please see the PDF documentation for further information.

• Copyright 2008–2014 Zebb Prime
• Copyright 2008–2018 Will Robertson

License

This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of this license is in: http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt

This work has the LPPL maintenance status maintained'. The Current Maintainer of this work is Will Robertson.

Change history

• v1.5e, Jan 2018:
  • New package option crossref=false to disable cross-referencing support.

• v1.5d, Oct 2017:
  • Use shellesc package for write18 in LuaTeX.

• v1.5c:
  • Documentation update; some minor cosmetic code changes.

• v1.5b:
  • Fix conflict with beamer, which resets the catcode of @ with begin{document}.

• v1.5a, March 2013:
  • Fix bug introduced in last version in which plain LaTeX compilation (producing DVI) produced erroneous output above each figure.

• v1.5, February 2013:
  • Fix =/# mixup in Windows ps2pdf options.
  • Check the .tex file for newness when regenerating figures.
  • Add macro-file=... for a global file to retrieve psfrag macros (default is "jobname-pstool.tex"). Thanks to Heinrich Kruger for suggestions for the above.
  • Cross-references and citations within external graphics are now supported.

• v1.4, November 2010:
  • More robust parsing of the main input file to read in the preamble. Therefore, EndPreamble is now required much less often.
  • Apparently unreleased to CTAN, oops :)

• v1.3, July 2009:
  • bitmap option to control compression of bitmap graphics,
  • Package options may now be set anywhere with pstoolsetup{},
  • localised pstool options can be set per-graphic.