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+.TH TPIC2PDFTEX 1 2008-08-01 GNU "Tex Live Manpage"
+
+.\"$Id: tpic2pdftex.1,v 1.15 2010/01/16 12:13:17 hahe Exp hahe $
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (C) 2002--2008 by Hartmut Henkel
+.\"
+.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
+.\" your option) any later version.
+.\"
+.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+.\" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+.\" See the GNU General Public License for more details.
+.\"
+.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+.\" along with this program; if not, write to the
+.\" Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
+.\" MA 02111-1307 USA
+
+.SH NAME
+tpic2pdftex \- convert tpic \\specials for use by pdftex
+
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B pic
+-t
+.I somefile.pic
+|
+.B tpic2pdftex
+>
+.I somefile.tex
+
+Process
+.IR somefile.tex
+by
+.BR pdftex/pdflatex.
+
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+Experimental
+.B awk
+script for conversion of
+.B tpic
+\\specials as produced
+by
+.B (groff-)pic
+into
+.B pdfTeX
+\\pdfliteral sections for further processing
+by
+.B pdftex.
+
+.SH NOTES
+Current version: 1.97.
+
+.B tpic
+\\special
+description see e. g.:
+Goossens, Rahtz, Mittelbach: The LaTeX Graphics Companion,
+Addison-Wesley, 1997, pp. 464.
+
+.SH 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).
+
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR pic (1),
+.BR grap (1),
+.BR groff (1),
+.BR awk (1),
+.BR pdftex (1).