Each planet's angle from it's argument of perihelion

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I am looking for a chart for each planet. This chart must contain each planet's angle from it's argument of perihelion for a particular time on Earth time. I am not looking for an ephemeris, I don't think. I need the angle along the eliptical path of the planet or the true anomaly.
 
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These JPL charts doen't give the Argument of Perihelion(PA). The charts do give Longitude of the Ascending Node(LAN) and the Longitude of the Perihelion(LP). The equation for this is:
PA=LP-LAN
These are 3D compound angles. Is there an easy formula to calculate this?