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diff --git a/info/tex-for-pictures.txt b/info/tex-for-pictures.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8dc037dd1d --- /dev/null +++ b/info/tex-for-pictures.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ + + TeX for Pictures + [03-Oct-1990] + +This file collects information on support for combining pictures with +material typeset by TeX, LaTeX, et al. + +See also: + + Nelson H.F. Beebe, ``TeX and Graphics: The State of the + Problem'', Cahiers GUTenberg, No. 2, Mai 1989, pp. 13--53. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Date: Sat, 25 Nov 89 14:06:57 GMT +From: Sebastian P Q Rahtz <spqr%ecs.southampton.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK> +Subject: Re: picture drawing (TeXhax Digest V89 #104) +Keywords: pictures, graphics + + > From: Clement Pellerin <clement@opus.cs.mcgill.ca> + + > Can someone comment on the relative merit of tpic, epic, eepic, pictex, + > and fig, or give a pointer to where such a work can be found. + > Are there others that I missed (that do not require postscript)? +some idle thoughts in no special order: + + - tpic requires you to have a Unix DWB license; it also requires a + driver that understands tpic \special (there are many around, but I + don't know of one, for instance, for HP LaserJet printers) + - eepic is a reworking of epic which allows for more flexibility by + replacing the core drawing primitives with tpic \specials + - fig only runs (so far as I know) on Suns or machines running X + Windows of some kind; the translators from fig code include ones to + pictex and LaTeX picture mode, so its quite portable + - how about gnutex for simple plotting? it has a LaTeX picture mode + output + - there have been several goes at plotting with Metafont - see the + recent Tugboat for an article describing this approach + +you don't say what you want to use the things for, so there is no +`right' answer. pictex is in many ways a good, flexible, portable +solution, but its too big to live comfortably in standard-size TeX, +and its sloooow. if you draw up a list of 10 desiderata for a method +for graphics inclusion in TeX, all the approaches I know of fail one +or more tests. Even if you allow yourself PostScript, it actually gets +worse, as (for instance) pictures prepared on a Mac and included into +TeX often cannot have decently typeset text. + +Sebastian Rahtz +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Date: Mon, 27 Nov 89 10:44:53 EST +From: beck@cs.cornell.edu (Micah Beck) +Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V89 #104 +Keywords: pictures, graphics + +In article <34594@cornell.UUCP> Clement Pellerin writes: + +>Can someone comment on the relative merit of tpic, epic, eepic, pictex, +>and fig, or give a pointer to where such a work can be found. +>Are there others that I missed (that do not require postscript)? + +These topics are discussed at some length in the TransFig manual, available +as Cornell Technical Report #89-967. A more recent version of the manual +is distributed along with the TransFig software package. + +TransFig is avialable via anonymous FTP from svax.cs.cornell.edu +in ~ftp/pub/fig/transfig.tar.Z, or by mail from the archive server +at sun.soe.clarkson.edu. + +Micah Beck +Cornell CS Dept. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Date: Sat, 9 Dec 89 11:07:44 -0800 +From: Louis M. McDonald <louis@aerospace.aero.org> +Subject: Some neat Macintosh utilities +Keywords: PostScript, Macintosh + +I recently found the program AddLPrep on the BBS "America OnLine". This +is a program that runs on the Mac and can be used to create "portable" +PostScript. It is not perfect, and I have not been able to test it against +non-Apple PostScript printers. A description follows. + +A copy of it (in STUFFIT/binhex format) can be found in aerospace.aero.org +(26.2.0.65) as the file pub/addlaserprep.hqx. + +Also, if you do not read USENET newsgroup comp.binaries.mac, someone +recently posted a MacDraw-Like program that can be used to create +"picture" files for the LaTeX picture environment. +I have not used it much, but it does seem to work okay. This can also +be found on aerospace.aero.org, file is pub/pictex.hqx + +Louis McDonald + +%=== + +AddLPrep v1.2 Documentation 7/31/89 + +Apple's LaserWriter system allows a user to get a complete PostScript +disk file (including the library code from the "Laser Prep" file) by +hitting Command-K WHILE MOUSING DOWN on OK from the LaserWriter Print +dialog, or a file without the library code by hitting Option-F. +Option-K and Command-F may do one or the other (??). + +Unfortunately, the Laser Prep code includes a few features that make +the Command-K file unusable on certain non-Apple laser printer systems, +such as a DEC ScriptPrinter connected to a VAX. + +The AddLPrep program remedies this situation by adding a modified version +of the PostScript code from the Laser Prep file to a PostScript file +created by hitting Option-F. + +The output file produced by AddLPrep is thus suitable for +downloading to any PostScript printer or typesetter. + +This version (1.2) differs from 1.1 in two ways: +1. It works with "Laserwriter 6.0" (AppleDict 70) as well as System 6.0 + (AppleDict 68) and System 5.0 (AppleDict 65). +2. A problem is fixed, wherein the DA version caused a system crash + after an error message. + +VERY IMPORTANT: AddLPrep is SHAREWARE and is copyright ) 1988 by +Software101, Los Gatos, CA. Feel free to try it out and give +copies to others, but if you find the program useful and continue +to use it, send $20 to Software101, 15151 Old Ranch Road, Los Gatos, +CA 95030. As indicated below, this program may need considerable +support; problems will be solved only for those who have paid +for the program. Someday, in some manner, new versions may be +available only to those honest folks. + +TECHNICAL NOTE: +AddLPrep substitutes the Laser Prep code for a line starting with: +%%IncludeProcSet: "(AppleDict md)" +If the input file does not contain a line like this, then AddLPrep +produces an Alert box noting that it has just functioned as a text file +duplicating program. (This will not occur for files created by Option-F +as described above.) + +ABOUT RELIABILITY: +As AddLPrep transfers the PostScript code from the Laser Prep +file to the output file, it makes a few modifications to the code +to make it suitable for use as a "transient" program that doesn't +"take over" the printer or modify its state. AddLPrep has been +tested with a number of common Mac applications and with a DEC +ScriptPrinter. However, it may prove unreliable in any of the +following cases: + +a) when used with a version of Laser Prep other than the ones + distributed with Apple's System Software 5.0 and 6.0 (a.k.a. System + 4.2/Finder 6.0 and 6.0/6.1 respectively). Internally, the code in + these Laser Prep files is called version 65 and 68 respectively. The + current version of AddLPrep (1.2) has also been tested with + "Laserwriter 6.0"; the accompanying Laser Prep is + called version 70 internally. + + If the Laser Prep file is sufficiently different, AddLPrep will detect + the problem and show an Alert box. Or, + +b) when used with a different PostScript printer, or + +c) when used with applications other than those the author has tested + it with, or + +d) when used with documents that contain graphic shapes other than + those the author happens to have tested (e.g., arcs have not been + tested). + +The most likely source of problems is a), for future versions of Laser +Prep. +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +From TeXMag V4N3 (Tue, 7 Aug 90 17:14:00 CDT): + Fig is a menu driven tool similar to MacDraw that allows you to + draw objects on the screen of a Sun Workstation running SunView. + TransFig is a set of tools which translate the code fig produces + to other graphics languages including PostScript and the LaTeX + picture environment. Both are available via anonymous ftp from + svax.cs.cornell.edu (128.84.254.2) in ./pub/fig. Both Fig and + TransFig are also available from the Clarkson archive server at + sun.soe.clarkson.edu (see question 19). Both Fig and TransFig + are supported by Micah Beck (beck@svax.cs.cornell.edu). + + XFig is essentially the same program except that it runs under + X Windows. It is available via anonymous ftp from expo.lcs.mit.edu + (18.30.0.22) in ./contrib/xfig-2.0.*.Z. Note that version 2.0 is + the most recent. It was written by Brian Smith. + + For complete compatibility with TransFig, be sure to get at least + patchlevel 4 of XFig 2.0. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +[The End] +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |