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From: karsten@uni-paderborn.de (Karsten Brinkmann)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: drawings + TeX
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.080736.29815@uni-paderborn.de>
Date: 17 Jun 91 08:07:36 GMT
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Dear TeXnichans!

I need a good advise: I'm typesetting a manusscript of a lecture
called 'indtroduction to computer science theory', using plain TeX, 
because I've learned TeX with the master's book.
The problem is, that my professor wants several drawings
(final automata, turing maschines, etc) to be included. For I have 
acces to a postscript-printer, I used 'idraw' (available on 
a SUN workstation, running X) to draw postscript-graphics and
the TeX macro package 'psfig' to include them.
So long, so good! Now I want to take the whole stuff and to print
it on a non-PS-Printer (HP Deskjet). 
So what I'm looking for is a kind of PicTeX (available for plain-TeX)
to transform a drawing file directly into a file containing 
TeX drawing commands. The result should be, that the resulting
DVI-file could be printed out on almost every printer!

Karsten