This directory includes a few files in Tektronix format. You may use them
to test the `tek2plot' utility, which translates Tektronix files to other
formats, or displays them on an X Window System display. Another source of
Tektronix files is the SKYMAP astronomical display program (see
http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/skymap ).
In this directory, the file ocpred.tek contains a chart showing an
astronomical event of 1986, prepared in 1985 at the Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics. You may do:
tek2plot -Tps --font-name HersheyGothicEnglish ocpred.tek > ocpred.ps
to translate it to Postscript. The text will be rendered in
HersheyGothicEnglish, which is an Old English font.
HersheyGothicEnglish is not a fixed-width font, unlike the original
Tektronix font. But if you add the `--position-chars' option on the
command line, each character will be positioned individually, so as to
match the position of the corresponding character in the original font.
Similarly, you may do:
tek2plot -Tps usmap.tek > usmap.ps
to prepare a Postscript version of the USA map.
You would use the `-T X' option, instead of `-T ps', to display the
specified Tektronix file in a popped-up X window.
To get a list of additional output formats that are supported by
`tek2plot', type `tek2plot --help'.
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