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NAME

6       tpic2pdftex - convert tpic \specials for use by pdftex
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SYNOPSIS

10       pic -t somefile.pic | tpic2pdftex > somefile.tex
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12       Process somefile.tex by pdftex/pdflatex.
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DESCRIPTION

16       Experimental awk script for conversion of tpic \specials as produced by
17       (groff-)pic into pdfTeX \pdfliteral sections for further processing  by
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NOTES

22       Current version: 1.97.
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24       tpic  \special  description see e. g.: Goossens, Rahtz, Mittelbach: The
25       LaTeX Graphics Companion, Addison-Wesley, 1997, pp. 464.
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BUGS

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

36       pic(1), grap(1), groff(1), awk(1), pdftex(1).
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40GNU                               2008-08-01                    TPIC2PDFTEX(1)