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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!ogicse!network.ucsd.edu!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!uqcspe!cs.uq.oz.au!king
  2. From: king@cs.uq.oz.au (Paul King)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
  4. Subject: Re: postscript TeX transfig fig2ps2tex fig2dev psbb
  5. Keywords: postscript TeX transfig fig2ps2tex fig2dev psbb
  6. Message-ID: <11049@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
  7. Date: 15 Nov 92 23:25:48 GMT
  8. Article-I.D.: uqcspe.11049
  9. References: <wies.721382437@NewsServ>
  10. Sender: news@cs.uq.oz.au
  11. Reply-To: king@cs.uq.oz.au
  12. Lines: 17
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  14. In <wies.721382437@NewsServ> wies@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Rene Felix Wies) writes:
  15.  
  16. >(I am trying to use transfig, tex and xfig. In order to leave enought space in
  17. >a TeX file, I need to know the size of a postscript picture. To avoid 
  18. >calculating the dimentions by hand, I would like to use fig2ps2tex, which in
  19. >return uses "dc" - which I don't have!)
  20.  
  21. If you use encapsulated postscript output from xfig and use the
  22. epsf macros for TeX (not sure where to get these) then you don't need
  23. to calculate the bounding box manually, TeX does it for you.
  24.  
  25. Cheers, Paul.
  26. --
  27. Paul King                                   _-_|\
  28. Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Queensland                  /     X
  29. Queensland, Australia, 4072                          \.--._/
  30. king@cs.uq.oz.au (ACSNET)                               v
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