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FIG2DEV(1) USER COMMANDS FIG2DEV(1)
NAME
fig2dev - translates Fig code to various graphics languages
SYNOPSIS
fig2dev -L language [ -m mag ] [ -f font ] [ -s fsize ] [
other options ] [ fig-file [ out-file ] ]
DESCRIPTION
Fig2dev translates fig code in the named fig-file into the
specified graphics language and puts them in out-file. The
default fig-file and out-file are standard input and stan-
dard output, respectively
Fig (Facility for Interactive Generation of figures) is a
screen-oriented tool which allows the user to draw and mani-
pulate objects interactively. Various versions of Fig run
under the Suntools/Sunview window environment and under ver-
sion 11 of the X Windows System. Fig2dev is compatible with
Fig versions 1.3, 1.4-TFX, and 2.0.
OPTIONS
-L Set the output graphics language. Valid languages are
box, epic, eepic, eepicemu, latex, null, pic, pictex,
and ps.
-m Set the magnification at which the figure is rendered
to mag. The default is 1.0.
-f Set the default font used for text objects to font. The
default is Roman; the format of this option depends on
the graphics language in use. In TeX-based languages,
the font is the base of the name given in lfonts.tex,
for instance In PostScript, it is any font name known
to the printer or interpreter.
-s Set the default font size (in points) for text objects
to fsize. The default is 11*mag, and thus is scaled by
the -m option. If there is no scaling, the default
font is eleven point Roman."
other options
The other options are specific to the choice of graph-
ics language, as described below.
EPIC OPTIONS
EPIC is an enhancement to LaTeX picture drawing environment.
It was developed by Sunil Podar of Department of Computer
Science in S.U.N.Y at Stony Brook.
EEPIC is an extension to EPIC and LaTeX picture drawing
environment which uses tpic specials as a graphics mechan-
ism. It was written by Conrad Kwok of Division of Computer
Science at University of California, Davis.
EEPIC-EMU is an EEPIC emulation package which does not use
tpic specials.
-S Set the scale to which the figure is rendered. This
option automatically sets the magnification and size to
scale / 12 and scale respectively.
-l Use "\thicklines" when width of the line is wider than
lwidth. The default is 2.
-v Include comments in the output file.
-P Generate a complete LaTeX file. In other words, the
ouput file can be formatted without requiring any
changes. The additional text inserted in the beginning
and at the end of the file is controlled by the confi-
guration parameter "Preamble" and "Postamble".
-W Enable variable line width
-w Disable variable line width. Only "\thicklines" and/or
"\thinlines" commands will be generated in the output
file.
When variable line width option is enabled, "\thinlines"
command is still used when line width is less than LineTh-
ick. One potential problem is that the width of "\thinlines"
is 0.4pt but the resolution of Fig is 1/80 inch (approx.
1pt). If LineThick is set to 2, normal lines will be drawn
in 0.4pt wide lines but the next line width is already 2pt.
One possible solution is to set LineThick to 1 and set the
width of the those lines you want to be drawn in "\thin-
lines" to 0.
Due to this problem, Varible line width VarWidth is
defaulted to be false.
LATEX OPTIONS
-l Sets the threshold between LaTeX thin and thick lines
to lwidth pixels. LaTeX supports only two different
line width: \thinlines and \thicklines. Lines of width
greater than lwidth pixels are drawn as \thicklines.
Also affects the size of dots in dotted line style.
The default is 0.
-d Set a seperate magnification for the length of line
dashes to dmag.
-v Verbose mode.
LaTeX cannot accurately represent all the graphics objects
which can be described by Fig. For example, the possible
slopes which lines may have are limited. Some objects, such
as spline curves, cannot be drawn at all. Fig2latex chooses
the closest possible line slope, and prints error messages
when objects cannot be drawn accurately
PICTEX OPTIONS
-p Set the symbol used by PiCTeX for plotting lines and
curves to psymbol. The default is "\sevrm ."
-l Set the width of any rules used to draw lines and boxes
within the picture to lwidth. The default is "0.7pt".
In order to include PiCTeX pictures into a document, it is
necessary to load the PiCTeX macros.
PiCTeX uses TeX integer register arithmetic to generate
curves, and so it is very slow. PiCTeX draws curves by
\put-ing the psymbol repeatedly, and so requires a large
amount of TeX's internal memory, and generates large DVI
files. The size of TeX's memory limits the number of plot
symbols in a picture. As a result, it is best to use PiCTeX
to generate small pictures.
POSTSCRIPT OPTIONS
-c option centers the figure on the page. The centering
may not be accurate if there are texts in the fig_file
that extends too far to the right of other objects.
-P indicates that the figure describes a full page which
will not necessarily be inserted into a document, but
can be sent directly to a PS printer. This ensures
that a showpage command is inserted at the end of the
figure, and inhibits translation of the figure coordi-
nate system.
-l Rotate figure to landscape mode.
SEE ALSO
[x]fig(1), pic(1) pic2fig(1), transfig(1)
AUTHORS
Micah Beck (beck@svax.cs.cornell.edu)
Cornell University
May 7 1989
and Frank Schmuck (then of Cornell University)
and Conrad Kwok (then of the U.C. Davis).
Modified from f2p (fig to PIC), by the author of Fig
Supoj Sutanthavibul (supoj@sally.utexas.edu)
University of Texas at Austin.