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- From: ecsgrt@luxor.latrobe.edu.au (Geoffrey Tobin)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: Pictures in LaTeX in the 90's
- Keywords: LaTeX, pictures, postscript, fig, PK, bm2font, mfpic.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.064443.10979@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 06:44:43 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.215454.12499@cs.wayne.edu> <1993Jan27.015232.18834@cs.wayne.edu>
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- >spiff@math.wayne.edu (Jason Leigh) writes:
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- >-+>what is the latest on getting diagrams into LaTeX? I remember using
- >-+>figs before and converting them using fig2latex. Is fig2latex still
- >-+>around ftp-able from somewhere? Is including postscript files inside
- >-+>LaTeX documents now more reliable?
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- For PS figures, I currently use psfig 1.9 and Rokicki's dvips.
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- fig2latex is part of Transfig by Micah Beck, now maintained by Brian
- V. Smith.
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- For non-PostScript printers, PK fonts are useful to hold bitmap
- pictures.
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- bm2font is a C program by Friedhelm Sowa for converting bitmaps to PK
- fonts.
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- mfpic 0.2 by Thomas Leathrum draws PK pictures using MetaFont.
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- fig2mfpic (under development; testers are welcome) is a C program to
- convert fig code to mfpic.
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- Think drawing and figure inclusion merits an FAQ file of its own.
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- In the meantime, you can obtain the available FAQ files by ftp:
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- ftp niord.shsu.edu
- cd faq
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- or by email:
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- mail fileserv@shsu.edu
- sendme FAQ
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- Geoffrey Tobin
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