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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!ukma!darwin.sura.net!sgiblab!munnari.oz.au!metro!peterw
  3. From: peterw@archsci.arch.su.oz.au (Peter Williams )
  4. Subject: Re: postscript TeX transfig fig2ps2tex fig2dev psbb
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov16.223648.1167@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
  6. Keywords: postscript TeX transfig fig2ps2tex fig2dev psbb
  7. Sender: news@ucc.su.OZ.AU
  8. Nntp-Posting-Host: freeman.arch.su.edu.au
  9. Organization: Design Computing Unit, The University of Sydney
  10. References: <wies.721382437@NewsServ> <11049@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
  11. Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:36:48 GMT
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  14. In article <11049@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>, king@cs.uq.oz.au (Paul King) writes:
  15. |> In <wies.721382437@NewsServ> wies@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Rene Felix Wies) writes:
  16. |> 
  17. |> >(I am trying to use transfig, tex and xfig. In order to leave enought space in
  18. |> >a TeX file, I need to know the size of a postscript picture. To avoid 
  19. |> >calculating the dimentions by hand, I would like to use fig2ps2tex, which in
  20. |> >return uses "dc" - which I don't have!)
  21. |> 
  22. |> If you use encapsulated postscript output from xfig and use the
  23. |> epsf macros for TeX (not sure where to get these) then you don't need
  24.    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  25.  
  26. They are included with the dvips package. As are the instructions for their use.
  27.  
  28.  
  29. |> to calculate the bounding box manually, TeX does it for you.
  30. |> 
  31. |> Cheers, Paul.
  32. |> --
  33. |> Paul King                                   _-_|\
  34. |> Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Queensland                  /     X
  35. |> Queensland, Australia, 4072                          \.--._/
  36. |> king@cs.uq.oz.au (ACSNET)                               v
  37.  
  38. -- 
  39. Peter Williams                |e-mail: peterw@archsci.arch.su.edu.au
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