Man page 1 : tpic2pdftex

tpic2pdftex - convert tpic \\specials for use by pdftex

pic -t somefile.pic|

tpic2pdftex > somefile.tex Process somefile.tex by

R pdftex/pdflatex.

Experimental

awk script for conversion of

tpic \\specials as produced by

(groff-)pic into

pdfTeX \\pdfliteral sections for further processing by

pdftex.

Current version: 1.94.

tpic \\special description see e. g.: Goossens, Rahtz, Mittelbach: The LaTeX Graphics Companion, Addison-Wesley, 1997, pp. 464.

Spline curve shapes not fully authentic (unknown algorithm). Bounding box does not care for line thickness (groff pic feature). Splines might be outside bounding box. Fill color does not work correctly for arrowheads (pic limitation).

R pic (1),

R grap (1),

R groff (1),

R awk (1),

R pdftex (1).