New CTAN package: pstool
Date: August 31, 2008 9:45:59 AM CEST
will robertson wrote (in a virtual sort of way):
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> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
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> Name of contribution: pstool
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/pstool
> Summary description: Support for psfrag within pdfLaTeX
> License type: lppl
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> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> The pstool package
> v1.0
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> A package like "pst-pdf" for processing PostScript graphics
> with psfrag labels within pdfLaTeX documets. 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.
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i have installed the package (in cambridge_ and updated the catalogue
repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pstool.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pstool
thanks for the upload.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
pstool – Support for psfrag within pdfLaTeX
The package works in the same sort of way as pst-pdf, but it also processes the PostScript graphics with psfrag to add labels within the graphic, before conversion. Thus the bundle replaces two steps of an ordinary workflow. (Naturally, the package requires that \write 18 is enabled.)
Pstool ensures that each version of each graphic is compiled once only (the graphic is (re-)compiled only if it has changed since the previous compilation of the document). This drastically speeds up the running of the package in the typical case (though the first run of any document is inevitably just as slow as with any similar package).
| Package | pstool |
| Version | 1.5e 2018-01-20 |
| Copyright | 2008–2014 Zebb Prime 2008–2018 Will Robertson |
| Maintainer | Zebb Prime Will Robertson |