PIC
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NAME
pic - troff preprocessor for drawing simple pictures
SYNOPSIS
pic
[
-Pt
]
[
-x#
]
[
-y#
]
[ files ]
DESCRIPTION
Pic
is a
ditroff
preprocessor for drawing simple figures on a typesetter.
The basic objects are
box,
line,
arrow,
circle,
ellipse,
arc
and text.
The optional argument
-Pt
specifies output device
t;
currently supported typesetters are
va
(or varian, the default),
vp
(or versatec),
ip
(or imagen). The options
-x#
and
-y#
reset the upper limit on width and height of the resulting figure.
Their default settings are 8.0 and 10.0 (values are given and set
in units of inches only). There is an internal limit of 32767
typesetter
units to both horizontal and vertical limits. On a varian or
versatec device, for example, this is 163 inches.
SEE ALSO
B. W. Kernighan,
PIC --- A Graphics Language for Typesetting
ditroff(1), grn(1), ideal(1)
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