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Last change: August 25, 2025

• The latest stable release is 1.2.22.
  • epix-1.2.22.tar.xz (md5: 3adb42da972eae5fa17b25288d28af03)
  • ChangeLog
  • INSTALL
  • README
• Sample Gallery
• Tips and tricks

Overview

ePiX, a collection of batch utilities for GNU/Linux and similar platforms, creates mathematically accurate figures, plots, and movies using easy-to-learn syntax. The output is expressly suitable for use with LaTeX; figures may be written in a LaTeX picture environment containing PSTricks, tikz, or eepic macros, or as vector (EPS or PDF) image files. The user interface resembles that of LaTeX: You prepare a human-readable scene description in a text editor, then compile the input file into a picture. The sample gallery contains dozens of examples, together with thumbnails and full-sized images. These sample files come with the source code. The manual contains detailed tutorial instructions on compiling files and getting started writing your own.

ePiX serves as a bridge between the computational power of C++ and the typographical capabilities of LaTeX. In particular, ePiX can depict the results of complex computations in the same typographical style as a LaTeX document, and is easily extended with only a modest amount of programming knowledge. No experience with C++ is needed to use ePiX, however.

License

ePiX is Free Software, distributed under the GNU GPL. This license grants you four specific Freedoms:

• To run ePiX, for any purpose (freedom 0).
• To study how ePiX works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1).
• To redistribute copies of ePiX (freedom 2).
• To improve ePiX, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3).

ePiX comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, including (but not limited to) any warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Contact Information

ePiX is written and maintained by Andrew D. Hwang adhere_savannah -at- pm -dot- me.