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From: chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Including postscript in LaTeX
Keywords: ``\special''
Message-ID: <22730@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 90 22:54:34 GMT
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In many articles many people write about `the' way to include PostScript
figures in TeX and LaTeX.  Of course, every procedure is different and
some are mutually incompatible.

The reason is simple: there is no single way to do it.

The way you do this on your system is specific to your system.  No one
else's approach will work unless you have the same software, or software
with the same origin, or the same design.

Fortunately, there seem to be only about four major variants out.

1. psfig/TeX.  This is an adaptation of `psfig', written by Trevor Darrel
   and friends.  (The adaptation included work by Trevor Darrel.)  This
   work was originally done at UPenn.

2. `psfile='.  This appears in a number of related and unrelated dvi to
    PostScript converters.  It simply `sucks in' a PostScript file, and
    applies optional scaling and such.

3. Tomas Rokicki's scheme.  He supports both 1 and 2, and also other \special
   operations.  As far as I know, some of his are unique to his dvi to PS
   program (that is, appear in no dvi-to-PS programs other than his).

4. tpic.  This is an adaptation of `pic', a commercial system for use with
   ditroff, by Tim Morgan at UC Irvine.  This is a very convenient system,
   but requires that you have a legal copy of pic.

My driver (part of the MC-TeX system) supports 1. and 2., and should soon
(hah!) support 4.
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