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+ 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]
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------