PSTricks macros cannot be used with pdfTeX, since psTricks uses PostScript arithmetic, which isn’t in PDF. As such, a package viz., PDFTricks.sty has been written to circumvent this limitation, so that the extensive facilities offered by the powerful PSTricks package can be made use of in a pdfTeX document. This is brought by making use of the shell escape function available in the web2c TeX compiler, while this package is of no use to other commercial implementations.
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Draftcopy package is unsuitable for pdfTeX since it employs postscript specials to print the draft string in the background. PDFdraftcopy makes use of alternate technique of keeping the text string as another layer by tweaking the output routines. Code from several packages have been blatantly stolen to do this job. PDFdraftcopy also supports inclusion of watermark which could be any graphic that would be accepted by pdfTeX.
PDFscreen package helps to redesign the pdf output of your normal documents fit to be read in a computer monitor while retaining the freedom to format it for conventional printing. This has been brought about by redefining the margins and page height/width and related dimensions to fit into that of the computer screen. By changing the options to “print” you can switch the package to format the document in the conventional way as per the dictates of your class file.
