As I am wont to do, I’ve been frittering away the hours poking and prodding TeX to make beautiful graphics.  This is my way of giving myself the impression of working hard, and actually accomplishing things, though not things that necessarily advance my career.

I’m quite fond of PSTricks, a LaTeX package which allows the author to make use of PostScript’s extensive computational and graphical capabilities from within a TeX document.  My project for this week was to come up with a way to give these figures to my advisor, who works exclusively in MS Word. So what I needed was a way to export TeX figures to graphics files. Here’s what I came up with.
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