TPIC2PDFTEX(1)

NAME
tpic2pdftex - convert tpic \specials for use by pdftex

SYNOPSIS
pic -t somefile.pic | tpic2pdftex > somefile.tex Process somefile.tex by pdftex/pdflatex.

DESCRIPTION
Experimental awk script for conversion of tpic \specials as produced by (groff-)pic into pdfTeX \pdfliteral sections for further processing by pdftex.

NOTES
Current version: 1.97. tpic \special description see e. g.: Goossens, Rahtz, Mittelbach: The LaTeX Graphics Companion, Addison-Wesley, 1997, pp. 464.

BUGS
Spline curve shapes not fully authentic (unknown algorithm). Bounding box does not care for line thickness (groff pic feature). Splines might be outside bounding box. Fill color does not work correctly for arrowheads (pic limitation).

SEE ALSO
pic(1), grap(1), groff(1), awk(1), pdftex(1).