Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!santra!santra!iisakkil From: iisakkil@niksula.hut.fi (Mika R Iisakkila) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: AutoCAD -> LaTeX Message-ID: Date: 7 Feb 91 08:48:19 GMT References: <2137@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system) Organization: Otaniemi Underground Broadcasting System Lines: 14 In-Reply-To: krab@iesd.auc.dk's message of 6 Feb 91 18:45:00 GMT krab@iesd.auc.dk (Kresten Krab Thorup) writes: > A such file can quite easyly be > converted into for example P*stScript (lots of utilities are available > to do this), which then again can be used with LaTeX.... AutoCAD can directly plot in PostScript. The only commands an AutoCAD-produced PS file contains (except for the few scaling commands and line width definitions) are lineto and moveto (AutoCAD v10, no shading etc). It would be almost trivial to write a filter program to convert this kind of PS into LaTeX commands. You would need a DVI driver capable of drawing lines in arbitrary angles, though (like the drivers in emTeX). emTeX drivers actually have lineto and moveto commands implemented as \special's.