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From: phil@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Macintosh drawing program for LaTeX
Message-ID: <2516.27678852@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 13 Dec 90 00:55:30 GMT
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In article <11633@milton.u.washington.edu>, erikl@milton.u.washington.edu (Erik Larsen) writes:
> Some time ago there was a program on tank.uchicago.edu called
> LaGrafix or something like that.  It was similar to MacDraw,
> but it generated commands for LaTeX's picture environment.
> 
> I can't seem to find it anymore.  Does anyone know where
> I can get a copy?
> 
> And:
> 
> Is there any graphics editor for the Mac that generates Fig
> code, or conversion program to convert MacDraw to Fig so
> I can use TransFig?
> 
How about printing the Mac graphic to a PostScript file then
using a \special to include it?  That's what I do with OzTeX,
and TeX on the VAXen here.  Other Mac TeX implementations make
it even easier, I believe.
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