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From: hartman@abacab.UUCP (Mark A. Hartman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: and nroff (Re: Drawing Programs, Printers . . . )
Summary: cdraw2fig
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Date: 10 Mar 91 16:04:50 GMT
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In article <668377781@macbeth.cs.duke.edu> pusateri@duke.cs.duke.edu (Thomas J. Pusateri) writes:
->In article <1181@hico2.UUCP> kak@hico2.UUCP (Kris A. Kugel) writes:
->>In article <5237@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>, motteler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Howard E. Motteler) writes:
->>> What I'd *really* like to be able to do is to mix
->>> even some limited graphics (e.g., the "cheap draw" program's
->>> output) with the tex output.
->>. . .
->>What *I'd* like is the program that looks like "MacPaint" or Cheapdraw
->>and outputs PIC language graphics so I can include them in my documents.
->
->If you're familiar with the fig and xfig drawing tools, then you know that
->there is a utility to convert fig to pic (f2p) and fig to tex or latex
->(transfig). The fig file format is ascii, straight forward, and well defined.
->All we need to do is modify the cheapdraw output file to conform to fig file
->format and we're in business. There are several different versions of fig
->files. 1.3, 1.4, and 1.4X come to mind.

I wrote something called cdraw2fig a while back that does precisely that.
It is on its way to comp.sources.3b1 now.

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Mark Hartman			hartman@abacab.chi.il.us
				Mark_A_Hartman@att.com