.TH TPIC2PDFTEX 1 2008-08-01 GNU "Tex Live Manpage"

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.SH NAME
tpic2pdftex \- convert tpic \\specials for use by pdftex

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pic
-t
.I somefile.pic
|
.B tpic2pdftex
>
.I somefile.tex

Process
.IR somefile.tex
by
.BR pdftex/pdflatex.

.SH DESCRIPTION
Experimental
.B awk
script for conversion of
.B tpic
\\specials as produced
by
.B (groff-)pic
into
.B pdfTeX
\\pdfliteral sections for further processing
by
.B pdftex.

.SH NOTES
Current version: 1.97.

.B tpic
\\special
description see e. g.:
Goossens, Rahtz, Mittelbach: The LaTeX Graphics Companion,
Addison-Wesley, 1997, pp. 464.

.SH 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).

.SH SEE ALSO
.BR pic (1),
.BR grap (1),
.BR groff (1),
.BR awk (1),
.BR pdftex (1).