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NAME
tpic2pdftex - convert tpic \specials for use by pdftex
SYNOPSIS
pic -t somefile.pic | tpic2pdftex > somefile.tex
Process somefile.tex by pdftex/pdflatex.
DESCRIPTION
Experimental awk script for conversion of tpic \specials as produced by
(groff-)pic into pdfTeX \pdfliteral sections for further processing by
pdftex.
NOTES
Current version: 1.97.
tpic \special description see e. g.: Goossens, Rahtz, Mittelbach: The
LaTeX Graphics Companion, Addison-Wesley, 1997, pp. 464.
BUGS
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).
SEE ALSO
pic(1), grap(1), groff(1), awk(1), pdftex(1).
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