ROWE@SANDIA-CAD.ARPA (John Rowe) (09/05/85)
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN GET 'PIC', A PROGRAM TO INCLUDE GRAPHICS WITHIN TEXT? IS THIS A UNIX UTILITY? DOES IT BEAR ANY RELATIONSHIP TO TROFF? I'M USING AN IMAGEN LASERPRINTER FOR OUTPUT. -------
gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) (09/05/85)
> DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN GET 'PIC', A PROGRAM TO INCLUDE > GRAPHICS WITHIN TEXT? IS THIS A UNIX UTILITY? DOES IT BEAR ANY > RELATIONSHIP TO TROFF? I'M USING AN IMAGEN LASERPRINTER FOR OUTPUT. "Pic" is a preprocessor for troff. It is included in the TITROFF package that used to be available from Bell Labs at Murray Hill (and may still be, I don't know). It is also part of the Documenter's WorkBench package available under license from AT&T Technologies. There is a newer, more programmable and more device-independent, version of "pic" (both versions developed by Brian Kernighan), but I haven't heard whether or how it is available. The new version supports "grap", a graphing language. I provide a somewhat cleaned-up version of "pic" as part of the BRL UNIX System V emulation to sites that also have a DWB source license. The original AT&T version requires the new graphic primitives of device-independent troff, but I turned back on the support for old C/A/T-style troff "dot plotting" so that both methods work, depending on the target device. If you don't know who your AT&T representative is, try calling (800)828-UNIX and tell them you want to know about licensing DWB.
klee@sri-spam.ARPA (Ken Lee) (09/05/85)
PIC is a troff preprocessor for drawing pictures. It supports Autologoic APS-5, Xerox 9700, and Imagen Imprint-10 printers. I believe it is a standard part of AT&T UNIX, but not Berkeley UNIX. AT&T also sells a graphics terminal (the 5620 DMD) that, among other things, (with supporting software called CIP) allows you to draw pictures with a mouse and save the pictures in PIC format for later processing by troff. More info on PIC may be found in "Pic: A Language for Typesetting Graphics", by Brian Kernighan, *Software - Practice & Experience*, volume 12, January, 1982, p. 1-20.