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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).

GNU                               2008-08-01                    TPIC2PDFTEX(1)