FIG2DEV(1)FIG2DEV(1)NAMEfig2dev - translates Fig code to various graphics lan-
guages
SYNOPSISfig2dev-L language [ -m mag ] [ -f font ] [ -s fsize ] [
other options ] [ fig-file [ out-file ] ]
DESCRIPTION
Fig2dev translates fig code in the named fig-file into the
specified graphics language and puts them in out-file.
The default fig-file and out-file are standard input and
standard output, respectively
Fig (Facility for Interactive Generation of figures) is a
screen-oriented tool which allows the user to draw and
manipulate objects interactively. Various versions of Fig
run under the Suntools/Sunview window environment and
under version 11 of the X Windows System. Fig2dev is com-
patible with Fig versions 1.3, 1.4, 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, 3.1 and
3.2.
OPTIONS-L Set the output graphics language. Valid languages
are acad (AutoCad slide format), box, epic, eepic,
eepicemu, gif, ibmgl, jpeg, latex, mf (METAFONT),
pcx, pic, pictex, png, ppm, ps, pstex, pstex_t,
textyl, tiff, tk (tcl/tk), tpic, xbm and xpm.
Note that dvips and xdvi must be compiled with the
tpic support (-DTPIC) for epic, eepic and tpic to
work.
-h Print help message with all options for all output
languages.
-m Set the magnification at which the figure is ren-
dered to mag. The default is 1.0.
-f Set the default font used for text objects to font.
The default is Roman; the format of this option
depends on the graphics language in use. In TeX-
based languages, the font is the base of the name
given in lfonts.tex, for instance "cmr" for Roman,
or "tt" for teletype. In PostScript, it is any
font name known to the printer or interpreter.
-s Set the default font size (in points) for text
objects to fsize. The default is 11*mag, and thus
is scaled by the -m option. If there is no
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scaling, the default font is eleven point Roman."
-V Print the program version number only.
other options
The other options are specific to the choice of
graphics language, as described below.
EPIC OPTIONS
EPIC is an enhancement to LaTeX picture drawing environ-
ment. It was developed by Sunil Podar of Department of
Computer Science in S.U.N.Y at Stony Brook.
EEPIC is an extension to EPIC and LaTeX picture drawing
environment which uses tpic specials as a graphics mecha-
nism. It was written by Conrad Kwok of Division of Com-
puter Science at University of California, Davis.
EEPIC-EMU is an EEPIC emulation package which does not use
tpic specials.
-A Scale arrowheads by factor. The width and height
of arrowheads is divided by this factor. This is
because EPIC arrowheads are normally about double
the size of TeX arrowheads.
-l Use "\thicklines" when width of the line is wider
than lwidth. The default is 2.
-v Include comments in the output file.
-P Generate a complete LaTeX file. In other words, the
output file can be formatted without requiring any
changes. The additional text inserted in the begin-
ning and at the end of the file is controlled by
the configuration parameter "Preamble" and "Postam-
ble".
-S Set the scale to which the figure is rendered.
This option automatically sets the magnification
and size to scale / 12 and scale respectively.
-W Enable variable line width. By default, only two
line widths are available: The normal line width
(hinlines), and thick lines (hicklines), if a line
width of more than one is selected in xfig.
-w Disable variable line width. Only "\thicklines"
and/or "\thinlines" commands will be generated in
the output file.
When variable line width option is enabled, "\thinlines"
command is still used when line width is less than
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LineThick. One potential problem is that the width of
"\thinlines" is 0.4pt but the resolution of Fig is 1/80
inch (approx. 1pt). If LineThick is set to 2, normal lines
will be drawn in 0.4pt wide lines but the next line width
is already 2pt. One possible solution is to set LineThick
to 1 and set the width of the those lines you want to be
drawn in "\thinlines" to 0.
Due to this problem, Variable line width VarWidth is
defaulted to be false.
IBM-GL OPTIONS
IBM-GL (International Business Machines Graphics Language)
is compatible with HP-GL (Hewlett-Packard Graphics Lan-
guage).
-a Select ISO A4 (ANSI A) paper size if the default is
ANSI A (ISO A4) paper size.
-c Generate instructions for an IBM 6180 Color Plotter
with (without) an IBM Graphics Enhancement Car-
tridge (IBM-GEC).
-d Restrict plotting to a rectangular area of the
plotter paper which has a lower left hand corner at
(xll,yll) and a upper right hand corner at
(xur,yur). All four numbers are in inches and fol-
low -d in a comma-sparated list - xll,yll,xur,yur -
with no spaces between them.
-f Load text character specifications from the table
in the fonts file. The table must have 36 entries
- one for each font plus a default. Each entry
consists of 5 numbers which specify the 1.) stan-
dard character set (0 - 4, 6 - 9, 30 - 39), 2.)
alternate character set (0 - 4, 6 - 9, 30 - 39),
3.) character slant angle (degrees), 4.) character
width scale factor and 5.) character height scale
factor.
-l Load area fill line patterns from the table in the
patterns file. The table must have 21 entries -
one for each of the area fill patterns. Each entry
consists of 5 numbers which specify the 1.) pattern
number (-1 - 6), 2.) pattern length (inches), 3.)
fill type (1 - 5), 4.) fill spacing (inches) and
5.) fill angle (degrees).
-m The magnification may appear as the first element
in a comma separated list - mag,x0,y0 - where the
second and third parameters specify an offset in
inches.
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FIG2DEV(1)FIG2DEV(1)-p Load plotter pen specifications from the table in
the pens file. The table must have 9 entries - one
for each color plus a default. Each entry consists
of 2 numbers which specify the 1.) pen number (1 -
8) and 2.) pen thickness (millimeters).
-P Rotate the figure to portrait mode. The default is
landscape mode.
-S Set the pen speed to speed (centimeters/second).
-v Plot the figure upside-down in portrait mode or
backwards in landscape mode. This allows you to
write on the top surface of overhead transparencies
without disturbing the plotter ink on the bottom
surface.
Fig2dev may be installed with either ANSI A or ISO A4
default paper size. The -a option selects the alternate
paper size. Fig2dev does not fill closed splines. The
IBM-GEC is required to fill other polygons. Fig2dev may
be installed for plotters with or without the IBM-GEC.
The -c option selects the alternate instruction set.
LATEX OPTIONS-l Sets the threshold between LaTeX thin and thick
lines to lwidth pixels. LaTeX supports only two
different line width: \thinlines and \thicklines.
Lines of width greater than lwidth pixels are drawn
as \thicklines. Also affects the size of dots in
dotted line style. The default is 1.
-d Set a separate magnification for the length of line
dashes to dmag.
-v Verbose mode.
LaTeX cannot accurately represent all the graphics objects
which can be described by Fig. For example, the possible
slopes which lines may have are limited. Some objects,
such as spline curves, cannot be drawn at all. Fig2latex
chooses the closest possible line slope, and prints error
messages when objects cannot be drawn accurately
PIC OPTIONS-p Enables the use of certain PIC extensions which are
known to work with the groff package; compatibility
with DWB PIC is unknown. The extensions enabled by
each option are:
arc Allow ARC_BOX i.e. use rounded corners
line Use the 'line_thickness' value
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fill Allow ellipses to be filled
all Use all of the above
psfont Don't convert Postscript fonts generic type
(useful for files going to be Ditroff'ed for
and printed on PS printer). DWB-compatible.
allps Use all of the above (i.e. "all" + "psfont")
PICTEX OUTPUT
In order to include PiCTeX pictures into a document, it is
necessary to load the PiCTeX macros.
PiCTeX uses TeX integer register arithmetic to generate
curves, and so it is very slow. PiCTeX draws curves by
\put-ing the psymbol repeatedly, and so requires a large
amount of TeX's internal memory, and generates large DVI
files. The size of TeX's memory limits the number of plot
symbols in a picture. As a result, it is best to use
PiCTeX to generate small pictures.
POSTSCRIPT OPTIONS
With PostScript, Fig can be used to create large posters.
The figure will be created by printing multiple pages
which can be glued together. Simply specify the -M option
to produce a multi-page output. Due to memory limitations
of most laser printers, the figure should not be too com-
plicated. Great for text with very big letters.
Text can now include various ISO-character codes above
0x7f, which is useful for language specific characters to
be printed directly. Not all ISO-characters are imple-
mented.
Color support: Colored objects created by Fig can be
printed on a color postscript printer. There are 32 stan-
dard colors: black, yellow, white, gold, five shades of
blue, four shades of green, four shades of cyan, four
shades of red, five shades of magenta, four shades of
brown, and four shades of pink. In addition there may be
user-defined colors in the file. See the xfig FORMAT3.2
file for the definition of these colors. On a monochrome
printer, colored objects will be mapped into different
grayscales by the printer. Filled objects are printed
using the given area fill and color. There are 21
"shades" going from black to full saturation of the fill
color, and 21 more "tints" from full saturation + 1 to
white. In addition, there are 16 patterns such as bricks,
diagonal lines, crosshatch, etc.
-c option centers the figure on the page. The center-
ing may not be accurate if there are texts in the
fig_file that extends too far to the right of other
objects.
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FIG2DEV(1)FIG2DEV(1)-e option puts the figure against the edge (not cen-
tered) of the page.
-l dummy_arg
Generate figure in landscape mode. The dummy argu-
ment is ignored, but must appear on the command
line for reasons of compatibility. This option
will override the orientation specification in the
file (for file versions 3.0 and higher).
This option is only honored when not using the -P
option (add showpage). This is because the figure
doesn't need to be rotated when generating Encapsu-
lated PostScript (EPS).
-M Generate multiple pages if figure exceeds paper
size.
-p dummy_arg
Generate figure in portrait mode. The dummy argu-
ment is ignored, but must appear on the command
line for reasons of compatibility. This option
will override the orientation specification in the
file (for file versions 3.0 and higher). This is
the default for Fig files of version 2.1 or lower.
-P indicates that the figure describes a full page
which will not necessarily be inserted into a docu-
ment, but can be sent directly to a PS printer.
This ensures that a showpage command is inserted at
the end of the figure.
-n name
Set the Title part of the PostScript output to
name. This is useful when the input to fig2dev
comes from standard input.
-x offset
shift the figure in the X direction by offset units
(1/72 inch). A negative value shifts the figure to
the left and a positive value to the right.
-y offset
shift the figure in the Y direction by offset units
(1/72 inch). A negative value shifts the figure up
and a positive value down.
-z papersize
Sets the papersize. Available paper sizes are:
"Letter" (8.5" x 11" also "A"),
"Legal" (11" x 14" also "A")
"Ledger" (11" x 17"),
"Tabloid" (17" x 11", really Ledger in Landscape mode),
"A" (8.5" x 11" also "Letter"),
"B" (11" x 17" also "Ledger"),
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"C" (17" x 22"),
"D" (22" x 34"),
"E" (34" x 44"),
"A4" (21 cm x 29.7cm),
"A3" (29.7cm x 42 cm),
"A2" (42 cm x 59.4cm),
"A1" (59.4cm x 84.1cm),
"A0" (84.1cm x 118.9cm),
and "B5" (18.2cm x 25.7cm).
PSTEX OPTIONS
The pstex language is a variant of ps which suppresses
formatted (special) text. The pstex_t language has the
complementary behavior: it generates only LaTeX commands
necessary to position special text, and to overlay the
PostScript file generated using pstex. These two drivers
can be used to generate a figure which combines the flexi-
bility of PostScript graphics with LaTeX text formatting
of special text.
-n name
sets the Title part of the PostScript output to
name. This is useful when the input to fig2dev
comes from standard input.
-p file
specifies the name of the PostScript file to be
overlaid. If not set or its value is null then no
PS file will be inserted.
TK OPTIONS-l dummy_arg
Generate figure in landscape mode. The dummy argu-
ment is ignored, but must appear on the command
line for reasons of compatibility. This option
will override the orientation specification in the
file (for file versions 3.0 and higher).
-p dummy_arg
Generate figure in portrait mode. The dummy argu-
ment is ignored, but must appear on the command
line for reasons of compatibility. This option
will override the orientation specification in the
file (for file versions 3.0 and higher). This is
the default for Fig files of version 2.1 or lower.
-P Generate canvas of full page size instead of using
the bounding box of the figure's objects. The
default is to use only the bounding box.
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FIG2DEV(1)FIG2DEV(1)-z papersize
Sets the papersize. See the POSTSCRIPT OPTIONS for
available paper sizes. This is only used when the
-P option (use full page) is used.
TEXTYL OPTIONS
There are no TeXtyl-specific options.
METAFONT OPTIONSfig2dev scales the figure by 1/8 before generating META-
FONT code. The magnification can be further changed with
the -m option or by giving magnification options to mf.
In order to process the generated METAFONT code, the mfpic
macros must be installed where mf can find them. The mfpic
macro package is available at any CTAN cite under the sub-
directory: graphics/mfpic
-C code
specifies the starting METAFONT font code. The
default is 32.
-n name
specifies the name to use in the output file.
-p pen_magnification
specifies how much the line width should be magni-
fied compared to the original figure. The default
is 1.
-t top specifies the top of the whole coordinate system.
The default is ypos.
-x xneg
specifies the minimum x coordinate value of the
figure (inches). The default is 0.
-y yneg
specifies the minumum y coordinate value of the
figure (inches). The default is 0.
-X xpos
specifies the maximum x coordinate value of the
figure (inches). The default is 8.
-Y ypos
specifies the maximum y coordinate value of the
figure (inches). The default is 8.
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FIG2DEV(1)FIG2DEV(1)JPEG OPTIONS-q image_quality
use the integer value image_quality for the JPEG
"Quality" factor. Valid values are 0-100.
GIF OPTIONS-t color
Use color for the transparent color in the GIF
file. This must be specified as a six-digit hex-
adecimal RGBvalue with the # sign, e.g. #ff0000
(Red).
TPIC OPTIONS
There are no tpic-specific options.
SEE ALSO
[x]fig(1), pic(1)pic2fig(1), transfig(1)BUGS and RESTRICTIONS
Please send bug reports, fixes, new features etc. to:
xfig-bugs@epb1.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
Arc-boxes are not supported for the tk output language,
and only X bitmap pictures are supported because of the
canvas limitation in tk.
Picture objects are not scaled with the magnification fac-
tor for tk output.
Because tk scales canvas items according to the X display
resolution, polygons, lines, etc. may be scaled differ-
ently than imported pictures (bitmaps) which aren't scaled
at all.
Rotated text is only supported in the IBM-GL (HP/GL) and
PostScript (including eps) languages.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1985 Supoj Sutantavibul
Copyright (c) 1991 Micah Beck
Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this
software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby
granted without fee, provided that the above copyright
notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright
notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
documentation. The authors make no representations about
the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is
provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
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THE AUTHORS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS
SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MER-
CHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE
LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA
OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE
OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
AUTHORS
Micah Beck
Cornell University
Sept 28 1990
and Frank Schmuck (then of Cornell University)
and Conrad Kwok (then of U.C. Davis).
drivers contributed by
Jose Alberto Fernandez R. (U. of Maryland)
and Gary Beihl (MCC)
Color support, ISO-character encoding and poster support
by
Herbert Bauer (heb@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de)
Modified from f2p (fig to PIC), by the author of Fig
Supoj Sutanthavibul (supoj@sally.utexas.edu)
University of Texas at Austin.
MetaFont driver by
Anthony Starks (ajs@merck.com)
X-splines code by
Carole Blanc (blanc@labri.u-bordeaux.fr)
Christophe Schlick (schlick@labri.u-bordeaux.fr)
The initial implementation was done by C. Feuille, S.
Grobois, L. Maziere and L. Minihot as a student practice
(Universite Bordeaux, France). The tk driver was written
by:
Mike Markowski (mm@udel.edu) with a little touch-up by
Brian Smith
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