wheeler@symcom.math.uiuc.EDU (04/16/88)
/* Written 11:15 am Apr 5, 1988 by wheeler@symcom.math.uiuc.EDU in symcom:uiuc.tex */ /* ---------- "Using Postscript in TeX" ---------- */ How exactly do I place a postcript document in a plain TeX file? I have a postcript file of a small contour that I made from a demo version of Framemaker. I would like to place this figure centered in a plain TeX file. I naively tried to put the postcript in a \special but this alone didn't seem to work. This is my first attempt of putting any graphics in a TeX file. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Ferrell Wheeler Department of Mathematics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . /* End of text from symcom:uiuc.tex */
halvers@iraq.steinmetz (peter c halverson) (04/18/88)
In article <18600001@symcom> wheeler@symcom.math.uiuc.EDU writes: > >How exactly do I place a postcript document in a plain TeX file? > >I have a postcript file of a small contour that I made from a >demo version of Framemaker. I would like to place this figure >centered in a plain TeX file. I naively tried to put the >postcript in a \special but this alone didn't seem to work. > We've got a number of semi-kludges that provide for just this kind of capability, since we've got people who want to include FrameMaker, Interleaf WPS, Macintosh, and several other sources of graphic images into (in our case) LaTeX documents --- I'm sure the equivalent plain TeX solution is similar. The exact solution depends a great deal on how the PostScript is structured, and to a lesser degree on how your particular device driver implements the \special command. In general, however, you usually need to hack the PostScript file to change the following: o remove any "showpage" operators, so TeX can finish the page properly. o add a "currentpoint translate" command, to properly position the output on the page. You can also add a scaling command here as well. o save the VM before including your file, and restore it when done, to minimize interference with the TeX/LaTeX environment o Seek and eliminate anything else that your PostScript's doing that would screw up the TeX page :-( We have a number of awk(1) scripts that do this. Obviously, this is extremely dependent on the source and version of your graphic --- i.e., between the three versions of FrameMaker that I've seen around here, the PostScript they generate is in totally different formats. Once you've "normalized" your PostScript, you can include it into your text with the \special command. The exact syntax for including a file is dependent on the device driver you use. You'll need to explicitly specify the amount of vertical space the figure will use --- whether the vspace should come before or after your \special command depends, again, on the source of your graphic: for FrameMaker or Macintosh stuff, the space must be added before the figure is included; for Interleaf, it must come after the figure. As an example, we use the following setup to include a "normalized" FrameMaker file in a LaTeX document, using ArborText's DVIPS PostScript driver: \begin{figure} \vspace{3.0in} \special{ps: plotfile myfile.ps global} \caption{Sample Figure} \end{figure} In general this seems to work fairly well, but whether the process of creating the graphic, normalizing it to work with TeX, and setting up the right TeX commands isn't more trouble than manual cut 'n' paste is still up for debate. The PostScript that some of these systems generate gets pretty hairy sometimes, and tends to interact with the TeX PostScript in nastily mysterious ways. ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Pete Halverson ARPA: halverson@ge-crd.ARPA GE Corporate R&D Center UUCP: uunet!steinmetz!iraq!halvers Schenectady, NY halvers@iraq.steinmetz.UUCP "Inconceivable!" "You use that word a lot. I don't think it means what you think it does."
las@msudoc.ee.mich-state.edu (Larry A. Sheilds {runs Lunapark}) (04/18/88)
You ned the psfigtex macros and a compatible dvi program such as dvips both of which are available or my bbs as well as else where. ==larry --------------------------- LARRY SHIELDS UUCP: ...!ihnp4!msudoc!lunapark!larry P.O. Box 6159 BIX: lshields E. Lansing, MI 48826 Compuserve: 70277, 3677 BBS: lunapark 1200/2400 8-1-N 24hrs 7 days a week (517) 337-3844 login: bbs
ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) (04/18/88)
It all depends on whether your DVI -> PostScript translator supports
the \special hook to include postscript files. Some of them do, but
the syntax is different in all the ones I've seen (and some are more
powerful than others). For instance, the one I'm using right now (called
dvips) uses:
\special{psfile="filename"[,key=value]*}
possible keys are:
hoffset The horizontal offset
voffset The vertical offset
hsize The horizontal clipping size
vsize The vertical clipping size
hscale The horizontal scaling factor
vscale The vertical scaling factor
rotate The rotation
Eduardo Krell AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
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