kak@hico2.UUCP (Kris A. Kugel) (03/06/91)
In article <5237@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>, motteler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Howard E. Motteler) writes: > What I'd *really* like to be able to do is to mix > even some limited graphics (e.g., the "cheap draw" program's > output) with the tex output. . . . > Also, are are there any drawing tools available for MGR? > > Howard E. Motteler | Dept. of Computer Science > motteler@umbc3.umbc.edu | UMBC, Catonsville, MD 21228 What *I'd* like is the program that looks like "MacPaint" or Cheapdraw and outputs PIC language graphics so I can include them in my documents. I was hoping Hans Jespersen (was: hjespersen@lion.uwaterloo.ca) would port or post a version of this tool that runs on the blit terminals (and would therefore probably work with his bitblt package), but now I can't seem to reach him by email or otherwise. *sigh* Does anybody know what happened to Hans? Kris A. Kugel ( 908 ) 842-2707 uunet!tsdiag.ccur.com!hico2!kak {daver,ditka,zorch}!hico2!kak internet: kak@hico2.westmark.com
pusateri@duke.cs.duke.edu (Thomas J. Pusateri) (03/08/91)
In article <1181@hico2.UUCP> kak@hico2.UUCP (Kris A. Kugel) writes: >In article <5237@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>, motteler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Howard E. Motteler) writes: >> What I'd *really* like to be able to do is to mix >> even some limited graphics (e.g., the "cheap draw" program's >> output) with the tex output. >. . . >What *I'd* like is the program that looks like "MacPaint" or Cheapdraw >and outputs PIC language graphics so I can include them in my documents. If you're familiar with the fig and xfig drawing tools, then you know that there is a utility to convert fig to pic (f2p) and fig to tex or latex (transfig). The fig file format is ascii, straight forward, and well defined. All we need to do is modify the cheapdraw output file to conform to fig file format and we're in business. There are several different versions of fig files. 1.3, 1.4, and 1.4X come to mind. I won't have time to do this until after the semester, (some time in may), but if there are no takers, I'll give it a shot then. Tom Pusateri Duke University
hartman@abacab.UUCP (Mark A. Hartman) (03/11/91)
In article <668377781@macbeth.cs.duke.edu> pusateri@duke.cs.duke.edu (Thomas J. Pusateri) writes: ->In article <1181@hico2.UUCP> kak@hico2.UUCP (Kris A. Kugel) writes: ->>In article <5237@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>, motteler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Howard E. Motteler) writes: ->>> What I'd *really* like to be able to do is to mix ->>> even some limited graphics (e.g., the "cheap draw" program's ->>> output) with the tex output. ->>. . . ->>What *I'd* like is the program that looks like "MacPaint" or Cheapdraw ->>and outputs PIC language graphics so I can include them in my documents. -> ->If you're familiar with the fig and xfig drawing tools, then you know that ->there is a utility to convert fig to pic (f2p) and fig to tex or latex ->(transfig). The fig file format is ascii, straight forward, and well defined. ->All we need to do is modify the cheapdraw output file to conform to fig file ->format and we're in business. There are several different versions of fig ->files. 1.3, 1.4, and 1.4X come to mind. I wrote something called cdraw2fig a while back that does precisely that. It is on its way to comp.sources.3b1 now. -- Mark Hartman hartman@abacab.chi.il.us Mark_A_Hartman@att.com