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From: beck@utgard.cs.cornell.edu (Micah Beck)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: .pic files
Keywords: LaTeX
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Date: 21 Jul 89 20:07:36 GMT
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In article <32442@ccicpg.UUCP> swonk@ccicpg.UUCP (Glen Swonk) writes:
>I received some *.pic files with a bunch of
>*.tex files. They seem to be some type of ASCII
>drawing specification file. Can anyone clue me in
>to what utility is used to generate an output file
>from these sources.

PIC is the language of a preprocessor for troff.  The way I'd recommend
using it in  a LaTeX document is to use the TransFig package.  PIC is
translated into an intermediate form, from which many LaTeX-compatible
formats can generated.  TransFig is available via anonymous FTP
from svax.cs.cornell.edu:~ftp/pub/ftp/transfig.tar.Z, or from the
Clarkson archive server (sun.soe.clarkson.edu).

>Also, what is psfig?

PSFig is macro package for including PostScript figures in TeX documents.
It leaves appropriate space in the TeX document, does scaling and positioning.

Micah Beck
beck@cs.cornell.edu
Cornell CS Dept