nmouawad@water.waterloo.edu (Naji Mouawad) (10/29/90)
Greetings,
I am trying to get a picture drawn using xfig into latex.
I drawn the picture and saved it as figure.fig. I then used
fig2dev -L pic figure.fig > figure.pic and did "tpic figure.pic"
to obtain figure.tex.
Question 1: I need the PicTeX macros in order for the figure
to be processed by Latex.
Question 2: Is there a better way of doing this ?
Any comment would be welcomed.
--Naji.
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| Of Waterloo | "Thanks God, we cannot prove He Exists." |beck@bongo.cs.cornell.edu (Micah Beck) (10/29/90)
nmouawad@water.waterloo.edu (Naji Mouawad) writes: > I am trying to get a picture drawn using xfig into latex. >I drawn the picture and saved it as figure.fig. I then used >fig2dev -L pic figure.fig > figure.pic and did "tpic figure.pic" >to obtain figure.tex. > > Question 1: I need the PicTeX macros in order for the figure >to be processed by Latex. No, PicTeX has nothing to do with PIC. You need a DVI driver which supports tpic specials. > Question 2: Is there a better way of doing this ? Depends on your operating environment. Fig code can be translated into LaTeX picture environment, (E)EPIC, PostScript, or TeXtyl, in addition to PIC or PicTeX. I suggest you read the TransFig manual, which is available via anonymous FTP from svax.cs.cornell.edu in ~ftp/pub/fig/transfig-man.dvi, and is also included in the TransFig software distribution. Micah Beck Cornell CS beck@cs.cornell.edu