[pdftex] FYI: tpic2pdftex

[Martin Schröder]

Subject: CTAN has a new package: tpic2pdftex

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should make
its way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks again for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon

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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: tpic2pdftex.awk
Author's name: Hartmut Henkel
Location on CTAN: graphics/tpic2pdftex
Summary description: Converting tpic \special's into \pdfliteral's by awk
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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The experimental awk-script tpic2pdftex.awk builds one bridge between 
the "pic" graphics language and pdfTeX.

What tpic2pdftex.awk does:

We start from one or more graphics described by the venerable pic 
language (see e. g. file example.pic), embedded inline within pdfTeX or
pdfLaTeX code, and limited by classical .PS and .PE markers as known from 
groff. The pic graphics might be annotated by TeX or LaTeX text. This 
pic/TeX language-mix file is piped through the (groff-)pic preprocessor 
and the tpic2pdftex.awk script. The result is a TeX file with inline 
\pdfliteral{} sections, for further processing by pdftex or pdflatex.
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You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/tpic2pdftex
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

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