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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)