A lot of people use LaTeX to typeset their documents. By using LaTeX's "picture" environment, drawings can be made. The picture environment offers several basic shapes like lines, ellipses, vectors, Bezier curves and so on. The drawings have to be generated by writing LaTeX code. The drawback of this is that the resulting drawing can only be observed after compilation of the LaTeX document. Therefore, several programs provide the possibility to create drawings using a graphical user interface. The LaTeX code can be generated by converting the drawn objects in the graphical user interface into LaTeX code.

LaTeXPiX is of of the LaTeX drawing tools which works under all Microsoft Windows platforms. It supports both the EEPIC as well as the PGF environment (rampup of the pstricks also). Some enhanced features of the program with respect to other LaTeX drawing tools are:

• Colour support on objects like rectangles (squares), ellipses (circles), polygons, dots, text et cetera.
• Shaded (filled with different grey scales) and colour filled objects.
• Bold and italic texts.
• Inclusion of images like BMP, JPEG and PNG.
• Arrows in any direction with different arrowheads possible instead of the restricted "vector" command in standard LaTeX.
• Elliptical arcs instead of just circular arcs.
• Splines.
• Support for PGF, EEPICS and inital PSTRICKS packages.

CTAN 29 stable release -- Released 28/12/2009: LaTeXPiX (build 3248)

LaTeXPiX program (for Microsoft Windows only)

English LaTeXPiX Manual PDF (Also included in the install program)

Vietnamese LaTeXPiX Manual PDF (Not included in the install program, based on CTAN 20)