jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu (James Darrell McCauley) (02/05/91)
I want to be able to print a TeX document on several different printers, including a xerox. It will have a lot of graphics. I usually use psfig to include PostScript figures, but PiCTeX now seems to be the most generic way to go. Now I need other methods of drawing pictures or ways to convert pictures to PiCTeX. I'm looking for ways to make this work without learning PiCTeX - I'm looking for filters to convert any kind of graphic to PiCTeX code. I'm familiar with (x)fig and the corresponding filter fig2dev, but xfig is a little cumbersome to use. If anyone has any suggestions concerning filters or alternative drawing programs, I'd like to hear them. If response is good, I'll summarize to comp.text.tex. Thanks, Darrell PS: The dvi drivers that I'll be using are dvips, dvi2ps, texrox, and possibly dvi2ln03. -- James Darrell McCauley (jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu, jdm5548@tamagen.bitnet) Spatial Analysis Lab, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-2117, USA
beck@bongo.cs.cornell.edu (Micah Beck) (02/05/91)
jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu (James Darrell McCauley) writes: >I'm looking for ways to make this work without learning PiCTeX - I'm >looking for filters to convert any kind of graphic to PiCTeX code. >I'm familiar with (x)fig and the corresponding filter fig2dev, but >xfig is a little cumbersome to use. If anyone has any suggestions >concerning filters or alternative drawing programs, I'd like to hear >them. If response is good, I'll summarize to comp.text.tex. There are two programs which translate widely used graphics languages into Fig code. Fig2dev can then be used to convert this code to PiCTeX. Thus, (X)Fig is not a necessary tool for using Fig code and fig2dev. If fact, the main goal of TransFig (of which fig2dev is one part) is to make Fig code a portable graphics representation in its own right. The two program (which I know of) are: - pic2fig, which converts the PIC graphics language to Fig code, and - plot2fig, which converts the Unix plot(5) format into Fig code. There are various graphics programs which produce PIC or plot(5) output. In the gnuplot numerical plotting programs produce Fig code directly. There may be others by now. TransFig and Fig (not XFig) are available for anonymous FTP from svax.cs.cornell.edu in directory ~ftp/pub/fig. Micah Beck Dept. of Computer Science Cornell University