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From: ogawa@orion.arc.nasa.gov (Arthur Ogawa)
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Subject: Re: Having problem to include a PICT file in LaTeX file
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In article <jesse.668615337@menaik> jesse@cs.UAlberta.CA (Jesse Lee) writes:
|Does anybody has any experience of including a PICT file
|into a LaTeX file and printing it with the Macintosh
|program DVIM72-Mac? I am writing a report using the Macintosh
|program OzTeX. Somewhere in the file, I have to include
|a PICT file. I read the documentation that comes with
|the DVIM72-Mac. It mentions it can print such dvi file.
|All I have to do is to type \special{pict pathname} where
|pict pathname is the absolute pathname or just the file
|name if it is in the same folder which contains the dvi
|file, and to leave some space for the picture.
|I do something like this:
|\vbox to 4in{\vfil\hbox to \textwidth{\hfil\special{graph.pict}\hfil}\vfil}

Try instead
\vbox to 4in{\vfil\hbox to \textwidth{\hfil\special{pict graph.pict}\hfil}\vfil}
                                                    ^^^^

The keyword "pict" within the \special command is a literal, I think.
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