Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dino!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!tank!mimsy!mimsy.umd.edu!alberto From: alberto@konark.cs.umd.edu (Jose Alberto Fernandez R) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re:Graphics in TeX Message-ID: Date: 21 Feb 90 16:37:14 GMT Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu Distribution: comp Organization: University of Maryland Computer Sc. Lines: 29 << What's needed is a standard application-level representation for graphics, and a good standard translation from this to PostScript. Representing all graphics in PostScript is like writing all programs in assembly language! >> I have been using Fig to create my graphics and the transfig package to translate it to diferent outputs. I have used PiCTeX, EPic and EEPic, there are also output to PostScript and directly to LaTex if your figure is simple. The advantage of this is that my DVI files are not printer dependent if I don't want it to be. This means that I can generate the same document using only DVI primitives (resulting in a bigger file) and being able to reproduce it everywhere or generate a PS version only for my local printer. Are there any other tools that have this flexibility? The problem I have is that the XFIG program version 1.4.3 to create the output has lots of bugs. Jose Alberto. -- :/ \ Jose Alberto Fernandez R | INTERNET: alberto@cs.umd.edu :| o o | Dept. of Computer Sc. | BITNET: alberto@cs.umd.edu :| ^ | University of Maryland | UUCP: {...}!mimsy!alberto :\ \_/ / College Park, MD 20742 |