tpic2pdftex(1)

tpic2pdftex1

Convert tpic \specials for use by pdftex

Usage

pic {-t somefile.pic | tpic2pdftex > somefile.tex}

Process somefile.tex by pdftex/pdflatex.

Overview

Experimental awk script for conversion of tpic \specials as produced by (groff-)pic into pdfTeX \pdfliteral sections for further processing by pdftex.

Notes

Current version: 1.97.

tpic \special description see e. g.: Goossens, Rahtz, Mittelbach: The LaTeX Graphics Companion, Addison-Wesley, 1997, pp. 464.

Releases

9 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 6.0
  2. 7–Arch

Bugs

Spline curve shapes not fully authentic (unknown algorithm). Bounding box does not care for line thickness (groff pic feature). Splines might be outside bounding box. Fill color does not work correctly for arrowheads (pic limitation).

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