Useful Vector Graphic Tools for LaTeX Users

In this article in PracTeX Journal you will find different tools that will help you design different graphics for your documents in LaTeX
Table of contents:

1. Introduction
2. Including graphics in LaTeX documents
3. Creating graphics
• The Xfig program
• The LatexDraw program
4. Matplotlib in LaTeX
5. Conclusion

You can find the pdf file as well as the sources following this link.

Writing posters in LaTeX

I wrote an article in PracTeX Journal describing how to create posters in LaTeX.
In this article you will find:

• The basics for making a poster with the a0poster class
• How to build a poster from text blocks
• Brian Amberg's poster template
• Making big posters from smaller pages

You can find the pdf file as well as the sources following this link.