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From: trevor@mit-amt (Trevor Darrell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: psfig - postscript and Mac figures in troff/TeX
Message-ID: <3671@mit-amt>
Date: 28 Mar 89 19:45:17 GMT
Reply-To: trevor@media-lab.media.mit.edu.UUCP (Trevor Darrell)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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Seeing the recent revival of interest in comp.lang.postscript on
including postscript figures in TeX and troff, I thought I'd post
an update on the availablility of psfig. 

Psfig is a preprocessor for troff and a set of macros for TeX that
handles the inclusion of postscript figures; in short it scans the
%%BoundingBox comment of a postscipt file to find the figure size,
creates a nested postscript environment with the appropriate scaling
and translattion needed to image the figure at the desired place, and
then includes the figures's PostScript text using special commands to
the postprocessor. The final document *must* be printed on a
PostScript device; the following postprocessors are known to work with
psfig: psdit (from adobe), dvips (from arbortext), and a version of
dvi2ps hacked by Tony Li at USC.

You can grab the sources to psfig from linc.cis.upenn.edu using
anonymous ftp from the directory ~ftp/dist/psfig/.  tex.tar.Z
has the TeX version, troff.tar.Z the troff version, and dvi2ps.tar.Z
a copy fo Tony Li's dvi2ps. 

** Also there is a file lprep68.tar that has a hacked up copy of the
Apple Laserprep version 68 that works with psfig. Use at your own 
risk :-) **

Psfig was written several years ago by Ned Batchelder and myself when
we were back at U. Penn; previous versions have been posted to 
comp.sources.unix and should be available from the standard
archive sites if anon ftp is not available. There is a paper on
the internals of the troff versions in the Phoenix Usenix proceedings.

--trevor