#Is it possible to load figures in plain tex?
Yes.
Include "psfig.tex" at the begining.
\input psfig.tex
The call the command
\psfig{figure="<filename>" opt="<dimen>" opt="<dimen>" ...}
where, 'opt' can be width, height, rheight, rwidth, clip or angle. Angle
should be in degrees.
Best,
K.S.Mithran
Beeta Computers.