[OS X TeX] metapost

[Alain Schremmer]

Martin Costabel wrote:

> On 3 mars 2005, at 19:08, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>
>> OK You win.
>> Now, what I would have liked to know is whether Xfig might not save 
>> in one of these formats that, say, Canvas, can open (about 50 at last 
>> count) ,e.g. one of these alphabet formats, BMP, CALS, CGM, EPSF, 
>> HPGL, IGES, IOCA, PCX, PICT, PNG, DWF, WMF, WPG.
>
>
> Install transfig. It has the fig2dev program whose manpage says:
>
> NAME
>        fig2dev - translates Fig code to various graphics languages
> []
> GENERAL OPTIONS (all drivers)
>        -L language
>               Set the output graphics language.  Valid languages are 
> box, cgm,
>               epic, eepic, eepicemu, emf, eps, gif, ibmgl,  jpeg,  
> latex,  map
>               (HTML image map), mf (MetaFont), mp (MetaPost), mmp 
> (Multi-Meta-
>               Post), pcx, pdf, pdftex, pdftex_t, pic, pictex,  png,  
> ppm,  ps,
>               pstex,  pstex_t, ptk (Perl/tk), shape (LaTeX shaped 
> paragraphs),
>               sld (AutoCad slide format), svg (beta driver), textyl, 
> tiff,  tk
>               (tcl/tk), tpic, xbm and xpm.

I didn't know there was that much more alphabet soup!!!!

Thanks, that is exactly what I wanted to know.

Regard
--schremmer
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