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Re: How to include PS into Troff?

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From: Jos Vos
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 1989 06:31
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In article <1232@ccnysci.UUCP> cpyang@ccnysci.UUCP (Chao Ping Yang) writes:

>Can somebody send me codes, ( template ?) for
>including a PostScript figure into a Troff document?

There is a marvelous package, free available, called Psfig:
it's in fact a preprocessor, similar to eqn.
It needs PostScript programs that (a.o.) include a %%BoundingBox line.

The only thing is that you have to adapt your postprocessor in
a rather simple way to recognize the Psfig-generated stuff.

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From: jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: How to include PS into Troff?
Message-ID: <927@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 7 Feb 89 06:31:06 GMT
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