fig2dev(1) General Commands Manual fig2dev(1)
NAME
fig2dev - translates Fig code to various graphics languages
SYNOPSIS
fig2dev [-L language] [-m mag] [-s fsize] [-Z
maxdimension] [-D +/-rangelist [-K]] [other
options] [fig-file [out-file]]
DESCRIPTION
fig2dev translates fig code in the named fig-file into the specified
graphics language and puts them in out-file. The graphics language is
inferred from the suffix of out-file, or it must be given with the -L
option. The default fig-file and out-file are standard input and stan-
dard output, respectively. A minus (-) in place of fig-file or out-
file also denotes either standard input or standard output.
Xfig (Facility for Interactive Generation of figures) is a screen-ori-
ented tool which runs under the X Window System, and allows the user to
draw and manipulate objects interactively. This version of fig2dev is
compatible with xfig versions 1.3, 1.4, 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2.
Xfig version 3.2.3 and later saves and allows the user to edit comments
for each Fig object. These comments are output with several of the
output languages, such as PostScript, CGM, EMF, LaTeX, MetaFont,
PicTeX, (as % comments), tk (as # comments), and pic (as .\" comments).
GENERAL OPTIONS (all drivers)
-L language
Set the output graphics language. Valid languages are box, cgm,
dxf, epic, eepic, eepicemu, emf, eps, gbx (Gerber beta driver),
gif, ibmgl, jpeg, latex, map (HTML image map), mf (MetaFont), mp
(MetaPost), pcx, pdf, pdftex, pdftex_t, pic, pict2e, pictex,
png, ppm, ps, pstex, pstex_t, pstricks, ptk (Perl/tk), shape
(LaTeX shaped paragraphs), sld (AutoCad slide format), svg,
textyl, tiff, tikz, tk (tcl/tk), tpic, xbm and xpm.
Notes:
You must have ghostscript installed to get the pdf output, and
ghostscript and one from the netpbm, the ImageMagick or the
GraphicsMagick packages to get the bitmap formats (png, jpeg,
etc.).
-h Print help message with all options for all output languages
then exit.
-V Print the program version number and exit.
-D +/-rangelist
With +rangelist, keep only those depths in the list. With
-rangelist, keep all depths except those in the list. The
rangelist may be a list of comma-separated numbers or ranges
separated by colon (:). For example, -D +10,40,55:70,80 means
keep only layers 10, 40, 55 through 70, and 80.
-K The selection of the depths with the -D +/-rangelist option does
normally not affect the calculation of the bounding box. Thus
the generated document might have a much larger bounding box
than necessary. If -K is given then the bounding box is adjusted
to include only those objects in the selected depths.
-G minor[:major][:unit]
Draws a grid on the page. Specify thin, or thin and thick line
spacing in one of several units. For example, -G .25:1cm draws
a thin, gray line every .25 cm and a thicker gray line every 1
cm. Specifying -G 1in draws a thin line every 1 inch. Frac-
tions may be used, e.g. -G :1/2in will draw a thick line every
1/2 inch.
Allowable units are: i, in, inch, f, ft, feet, c, cm, mm, and m.
Only allowed for PostScript, EPS, PDF, pstricks, tikz and bitmap
(GIF, JPEG, etc) drivers.
-j Enable the I18N internationalization facility.
-m mag Set the magnification at which the figure is rendered to mag.
The default is 1.0. This may not be used with the maxdimension
option (-Z).
-s fsize
Set the default font size (in points, 1/72 inch) for text ob-
jects to fsize. The default is 11*mag, and thus is scaled by
the -m option. If there is no scaling, the default font is
eleven point Roman.
-Z maxdimension
Scale the figure so that the maximum dimension (width or height)
is maxdimension inches or cm, depending on whether the figure
was saved with imperial or metric units. This may not be used
with the magnification option (-m).
other options
The other options are specific to the choice of graphics lan-
guage, as described below.
OPTIONS COMMON TO ALL BITMAP FORMATS
-b borderwidth
Make blank border around figure of width borderwidth (1/72
inch).
-F Use correct font sizes (points, 1/72 inch) instead of the tradi-
tional size that xfig/fig2dev uses, which is 1/80 inch. The
corresponding xfig command-line option is -correct_font_size.
-g color
Use color for the background.
-N Convert all colors to grayscale.
-S smoothfactor
This will smooth the output by passing smoothfactor to ghost-
script in the -dTextAlphaBits and -dGraphicsAlphaBits options to
improve font rendering and graphic smoothing. A value of 2 for
smoothfactor provides some smoothing and 4 provides more.
GIF OPTIONS
-t color
Use color for the transparent color in the GIF file. This must
be specified in the same format that ppmmake(1) allows. It may
allow an X11 color name, but at least you may use a six-digit
hexadecimal RGBvalue using the # sign, e.g. #ff0000 (Red).
JPEG OPTIONS
-q image_quality
use the integer value image_quality for the JPEG "Quality" fac-
tor. Valid values are 0 - 100, with the default being 75.
CGM OPTIONS
CGM is Computer Graphics Metafile, developed by ISO and ANSI and is a
vector-based plus bitmap language. Microsoft WORD, PowerPoint and
probably other products can import this format and display it on the
screen, something that they won't do with EPS files that have an ASCII
preview.
-a Generate binary output.
-r Position arrowheads for CGM viewers that display rounded arrow-
heads. Normally, arrowheads are pointed, so fig2dev compensates
for this by moving the endpoint of the line back so the tip of
the arrowhead ends where the original endpoint of the line was.
If the -r option is used, the position of arrows will NOT be
corrected for compensating line width effects, because the
rounded arrowhead doesn't extend beyond the endpoint of the
line.
DXF OPTIONS
DXF is the Drawing Interchange File Format. The output to DXF is ex-
perimental.
-a Select ANSI A paper size instead of the default ISO A4.
-d xll,yll,xur,yur
Restrict plotting to a rectangular area of the plotter paper
which has a lower left hand corner at (xll,yll) and a upper
right hand corner at (xur,yur). All four numbers are in inches
and follow -d in a comma-separated list - xll,yll,xur,yur - with
no spaces between them.
-P Rotate the figure to portrait mode. The default is landscape
mode.
-v Plot the figure upside-down in portrait mode or backwards in
landscape mode.
EMF OPTIONS
EMF is Enhanced Metafile, developed by Microsoft and is a vector-based
plus bitmap language. Microsoft WORD, PowerPoint and probably other
products can import this format and display it on the screen, something
that they won't do with EPS files that have an ASCII preview.
-l lang
Set the compatibility level to lang, where lang is one of win95,
win98 or winnt. The default is winnt.
-r Position arrowheads for EMF viewers that display rounded arrow-
heads. See the discussion of the -r option for the CGM output
driver above.
EPIC OPTIONS
EPIC is an enhancement to LaTeX picture drawing environment.
EEPIC is an extension to EPIC and LaTeX picture drawing environment
which uses tpic specials as a graphics mechanism. It was written by
Conrad Kwok of Division of Computer Science at University of Califor-
nia, Davis. Conrad Kwok has also written the EEPIC driver of fig2dev.
EEPIC-EMU is an EEPIC emulation package which does not use tpic spe-
cials.
-d factor
Scale arrowheads by factor. The width and height of arrowheads
is divided by this factor. This is because EPIC arrowheads are
normally about double the size of TeX arrowheads.
-E num Set encoding for text translation (0 = none, 1 = ISO-8859-1, 2 =
ISO-8859-2; default 1).
-F Don't set the font face, series, and style; only set it's size
and the baselineskip. By default, fig2dev sets all 5 font param-
eters when it puts some text. The disadvantage is that you can't
set the font from your LaTeX document. With this option on, you
can set the font from your LaTeX document.
If any of the pictures included in your LaTeX document has been
generated with -F, then all pictures must be generated with this
option.
-f font
Set the default font used for text objects to font, where font
is one of rm, bf, it, sf or tt. The default is rm.
-l lwidth
Use "\thicklines" when the width of the line is equal or wider
than lwidth. The default is 2.
-P Generate a complete LaTeX file. In other words, the output file
can be formatted without requiring any changes.
-R dummyarg
Allow rotated text. Rotated text will be set using the \rotate-
box command. So, you will need to include "\usepackage{graph-
ics}" in the preamble of your LaTeX document. A dummy argument
is required after the -R.
If this option is not set, then rotated text will be set hori-
zontally.
-S scale
Set the scale to which the figure is rendered. This option au-
tomatically sets the magnification and fsize to scale/12 and
scale respectively. Scale must be between 8 and 12, inclu-
sively.
-t stretch
Set the stretch factor of dashed lines to stretch. The default
is 30.
-v Include comments in the output file.
-W Enable variable line width. By default, only two line widths
are available: The normal line width ("\thinlines"), and thick
lines ("\thicklines"). See also the -l option above.
-w Disable variable line width. Only "\thicklines" and/or "\thin-
lines" commands will be generated in the output file.
When variable line width option is enabled, the "\thinlines"
command is still used when the line width is less than
LineThick. One potential problem is that the width of "\thin-
lines" is 0.4pt but the resolution of Fig is 1/80 inch (approx.
1pt). If LineThick is set to 2, normal lines will be drawn in
0.4pt wide lines but the next line width is already 2pt. One
possible solution is to set LineThick to 1 and set the width of
those lines you want to be drawn in "\thinlines" to 0.
Due to this problem, variable line width is disabled by default
(-w).
IBM-GL (HP/GL) OPTIONS
IBM-GL (IBM Graphics Language) is compatible with HP-GL (Hewlett-
Packard Graphics Language).
-a Select ANSI A paper size instead of the default ISO A4.
-c Generate instructions for an IBM 6180 Color Plotter without an
IBM Graphics Enhancement Cartridge (IBM-GEC).
-d xll,yll,xur,yur
Restrict plotting to a rectangular area of the plotter paper
which has a lower left hand corner at (xll,yll) and a upper
right hand corner at (xur,yur). All four numbers are in inches
and follow -d in a comma-separated list - xll,yll,xur,yur - with
no spaces between them.
-f fontfile
Load text character specifications from the table in the file
fontfile. The table must have 36 entries - one for each font
plus a default. Each entry consists of 5 numbers which specify
the
1.) standard character set (0 - 4, 6 - 9, 30 - 39),
2.) alternate character set (0 - 4, 6 - 9, 30 - 39),
3.) character slant angle (degrees),
4.) character width scale factor and
5.) character height scale factor.
-k Precede output with PCL command to use HP/GL.
-l pattfile
Load area fill line patterns from the table in the pattfile
file. The table must have 21 entries - one for each of the area
fill patterns. Each entry consists of 5 numbers which specify
the
1.) pattern number (-1 - 6),
2.) pattern length (inches),
3.) fill type (1 - 5),
4.) fill spacing (inches) and
5.) fill angle (degrees).
-P Rotate the figure to portrait mode. The default is landscape
mode.
-p penfile
Load plotter pen specifications from the table in the penfile
file. The table must have 9 entries - one for each color plus a
default. Each entry consists of 2 numbers which specify the
1.) pen number (1 - 8) and
2.) pen thickness (millimeters).
-S speed
Set the pen speed to speed (centimeters/second).
-v Plot the figure upside-down in portrait mode or backwards in
landscape mode. This allows you to write on the top surface of
overhead transparencies without disturbing the plotter ink on
the bottom surface.
-x offset
Shift figure left by offset inches.
-y offset
Shift figure up by offset inches.
Fig2dev may be installed with either ANSI A or ISO A4 default paper
size. The -a option selects the alternate paper size. Fig2dev does
not fill closed splines. The IBM-GEC is required to fill other poly-
gons. Fig2dev may be installed for plotters with or without the IBM-
GEC. The -c option selects the alternate instruction set.
LATEX OPTIONS
-b borderwidth
Make blank border around figure of width borderwidth (1/72
inch).
-d dmag
Set a separate magnification for the length of line dashes to
dmag.
-E num Set encoding for latex text translation (0 = no translation, 1 =
ISO-8859-1, 2 = ISO-8859-2; default 1).
-F Don't set the font face, series, and style; only set it's size
and the baselineskip. By default, fig2dev sets all 5 font param-
eters when it puts some text. The disadvantage is that you can't
set the font from your LaTeX document. With this option on, you
can set the font from your LaTeX document.
If any of the pictures included in your LaTeX document has been
generated with -F, then all pictures must be generated with this
option.
-f font
Set the default font used for text objects to font, where font
is one of rm, bf, it, sf or tt. The default is rm.
-l lwidth
Sets the threshold between LaTeX thin and thick lines to lwidth
pixels. LaTeX supports only two different line widths: \thin-
lines and \thicklines. Lines of width greater than lwidth pix-
els are drawn as \thicklines. Also affects the size of dots in
dotted line style. The default is 1.
-v Verbose mode. Include comments in the otput file.
LaTeX cannot accurately represent all the graphics objects which can be
described by Fig. For example, the possible slopes which lines may
have are limited. Some objects, such as spline curves, cannot be drawn
at all. Fig2latex chooses the closest possible line slope, and prints
error messages when objects cannot be drawn accurately.
MAP (HTML image map) OPTIONS
Xfig version 3.2.3 and later saves and allows the user to edit comments
for each Fig object. The fig2dev map output language will produce an
HTML image map using Fig objects that have href="some_html_reference"
in their comments. Any Fig object except compound objects may be used
for this. Usually, besides generating the map file, you would also
generate a PNG file, which is the image to which the map refers.
For example, you may have an xfig drawing with an imported image that
has the comment href="go_here.html" and a box object with a comment
href="go_away.html". This will produce an image map file such the user
may click on the image and the browser will load the "go_here.html"
page, or click on the box and the browser will load the "go_away.html"
page.
After the map file is generated by fig2dev you will need to edit it to
fill out any additional information it may need.
-b borderwidth
Make blank border around figure of width borderwidth (1/72
inch).
METAFONT OPTIONS
Fig2dev scales the figure by 1/8 before generating METAFONT code. The
magnification can be further changed with the -m option or by giving
magnification options to mf.
In order to process the generated METAFONT code, the mfpic macros must
be installed where mf can find them. The mfpic macro package is avail-
able at any CTAN cite under the subdirectory: graphics/mfpic
-C code
Specify the starting METAFONT font code. The default is 32.
-n name
Specify the name to use in the output file.
-p pen_magnification
Specify how much the line width should be magnified compared to
the original figure. The default is 1.
-t top Specify the top of the whole coordinate system. The default is
ypos.
-x xmin
Specify the minimum x coordinate value of the figure (inches).
The default is 0.
-y ymin
Specify the minimum y coordinate value of the figure (inches).
The default is 0.
-X xmax
Specify the maximum x coordinate value of the figure (inches).
The default is 8.
-Y ymax
Specify the maximum y coordinate value of the figure (inches).
The default is 8.
METAPOST OPTIONS
-d file
Include file content as additional header.
-i file
Include file content via \input-command.
-M Multipage mode, generate one figure for each depth.
-o Old mode (no latex).
-p number
Adds the line "prologues:=number" to the output.
PIC OPTIONS
-f font
Set the default font used for text objects to font, where font
is one of R (roman), B (bold), I (italic), H (sans serif) or C
(typewriter). The default is R.
-p ext Enables the use of certain PIC extensions which are known to
work with the groff package; compatibility with DWB PIC is un-
known. The extensions enabled by each option are:
arc Allow ARC_BOX i.e. use rounded corners
line Use the 'line_thickness' value
fill Allow ellipses to be filled
all Use all of the above
psfont Don't convert PostScript fonts generic type
(useful for files going to be Ditroff'ed for
and printed on PS printer). DWB-compatible.
allps Use all of the above (i.e. "all" + "psfont")
PICT2E OPTIONS
PICT2E is an enhancement to the LaTeX picture environment. It is en-
abled by inserting "\usepackage{pict2e}" in the document preamble. De-
pending on the content of the figure, it may be necessary to also in-
clude "\usepackage{color}" and "\usepackage{graphics}". Figures pro-
duced with the PICT2E driver can be processed with any LaTeX engine,
e.g., LaTeX + dvips, LaTeX + dvipdfm, pdflatex, xelatex, ConTeX, etc.
Pattern fills are not supported by the PICT2E output language. The
PICT2E driver renders patterns by filling the respective area with the
pen-color at 25% intensity, i.e., a 75% tint of the pen-color. The
PICT2E driver allows one to choose any font available to the LaTeX en-
gine, including PostScript fonts. TeX an PostScript fonts may appear
together in the same document.
-b borderwidth
Make blank border around figure of width borderwidth*(1/72)
inches.
-C num Do not emit a \color-command for the color number num. (0 =
black, 1 = blue, 2 = green - see the color chooser widget in
Xfig). By default, fig2dev does not issue a \color-command for
objects which have the color set to "Default" in xfig. With
this option, the "\color"-command is also omitted for objects
having the color num. The color of these objects, as well as of
those having the color set to "Default", is picked up from the
including LaTeX-document.
The option -C 0 is particularly useful. By default, xfig starts
with the color set to black. Then, fig2dev emits
"\color{black}" commands, and the color-package must be included
in the document preamble. For black text and black-and-white
drawings, this is superfluous.
-e Do not try to be compatible with epic/eepic. By default, you
can include "\usepackage{pict2e, epic, eepic}" (in this order!)
in the document preamble and mix LaTeX pictures using the
epic/eepic command set and pictures produced with the PICT2E
output language within one document. With this option on, epic
or eepic pictures can not be mixed with PICT2E-pictures.
By default, fig2dev avoids the use of the "\circle" and
"\oval"-commands, which are defined by epic, in lieu of the
"\circlearc"-command exclusive to pict2e. In addition, line
widths are not only set using "\linethickness", but also with
the eepic-command "\allinethickness" (if it is defined).
-E num Set encoding for text translation (0 = no translation, 1 =
ISO-8859-1, 2 = ISO-8859-2; default 1). For instance, to use
utf8-encoded text, first create a text object, then edit the
text using the edit-button in xfig. Convert the fig-file to
pict2e with the option -E 0 and include "\usepack-
age[utf8]{inputenc}" in the LaTeX file In xfig, the text typed
in may not be displayed correctly, but the document produced
from the LaTeX file will show the same text as was typed in.
-F Do not set the font family, series or shape. By default,
fig2dev sets the font family, series, shape, font size and base-
lineskip. With this option on, the text font can be set from
the including LaTeX-document, e.g., "\itshape \in-
put{fig1.pict2e}". See also -o (no font size).
-f font
Set the default font used for text objects to font. The string
font may be one of rm, bf, it, sf, tt, \rmfamily, \bfseries,
\itshape, \sffamily, \ttfamily, or one of the 35 standard Post-
Script font names. The default is \rmfamily.
-i dir Prepend the string dir to graphics files included in the pict2e-
picture. For instance, having imported "image.jpg" in xfig,
with -i '$HOME/Figures/' the code "\incudegraphics{$HOME/Fig-
ures/image.jpg}" will be generated.
-o Do not set the font size or baselineskip. Text will be rendered
at the size that is in force where the pict2e-code is inserted
into the LaTeX-document, e.g., "\small \input{fig1.pict2e}".
See also -F (no font properties).
-O Do not quote characters special to TeX/LaTeX. Useful to get,
e.g., an italic x, not $x$, because it was forgotten to set the
text-flag "special-text" in xfig. This option effectively sets
the "special-text" flag for all text.
-P Pagemode, generate a stand-alone LaTeX-file as out-file. The
document produced from the LaTeX-file will have the paper size
equal to the figure's bounding box (but see the -b option to add
a margin). The generated LaTeX-file calls the package "geome-
try.sty" to set the paper size.
-R num Replace arrowheads num by LaTeX-arrows ("\vector"). The number
of an arrowhead ("Arrow Type" in xfig) can be found by opening
the arrow chooser widget in xfig and counting the arrows, start-
ing from 1. For instance, to replace filled triangle arrowheads
with LaTeX \vector-commands, use -R 3.
-r Replace all arrows by LaTeX-arrows.
-T Only use TeX fonts, even where PostScript-fonts are specified.
-v Verbose mode. Write comment lines into the output file, usually
naming the type of the object that is drawn.
-w Remove the suffix from included graphics-files. With this op-
tion on, fig2dev generates code that contains, e.g., "\include-
graphics{fig1}", instead of "\includegraphics{fig1.eps}".
PICTEX OPTIONS
In order to include PiCTeX pictures into a document, it is necessary to
load the PiCTeX macros.
PiCTeX uses TeX integer register arithmetic to generate curves, and so
it is very slow. PiCTeX draws curves by \put-ing the psymbol repeat-
edly, and so requires a large amount of TeX's internal memory, and gen-
erates large DVI files. The size of TeX's memory limits the number of
plot symbols in a picture. As a result, it is best to use PiCTeX to
generate small pictures.
-a Anonymous mode. Do not write the user name into the output file.
-E num Set encoding for latex text translation (0 = no translation, 1 =
ISO-8859-1, 2 = ISO-8859-2; default 1).
-f font
Set the default font used for text objects to font, where font
is one of rm, bf, it, sf or tt. The default is rm.
-l dimen
Set line thickness to dimen. Default "1pt".
-p psymbol
Set the psymbol. Default "\makebox(0,0)[l]{\tencirc\sym-
bol{'160}}".
-r Do not allow rotated text. Otherwise, files with PiCTeX macros
and rotated text need to be processed with dvips.
GBX OPTIONS (Gerber, RS-247-X)
Typically you will wish to set the y scale to -1. See -g for more in-
formation.
-d [mm|in]
Output dimensions should be assumed to be millimeters (mm) or
inches (in). The default is millimeters.
-p [pos|neg]
Select the image polarity. For positive images lines drawn in
the fig file will generate lines of material. For negative im-
ages lines drawn in the fig file will result in removed mate-
rial. Consider etching a chrome on glass transmission mask.
Drawing lines in the fig file and choosing 'neg' will result in
these lines being etched through the chrome, leaving transparent
lines.
-g <x scale>x<y scale>+<x offset>+<y offset>
This controls the geometry of the output, scaling the dimensions
as shown and applying the given offset. Typically you will wish
to set the y scale to -1, mirroring about the x axis. This is
because Gerber assumes the origin to be bottom left, while xfig
selects top left.
-f <n digits>.<n digits>
This controls the number of digits of precision before and after
the implied decimal point. With -f 5.3 the following number
12345678 corresponds to 12345.678. Whereas with -f 3.5 it cor-
responds to 123.45678. The default is for 3 places before the
decimal point and 5 after. This corresponds, to a range of 0 to
1m in 10 micron increments.
-v Output comments describing the type of objects being output.
The text appears as comments starting with ## on each line in
the output file.
POSTSCRIPT, ENCAPSULATED POSTSCRIPT (EPS), and PDF OPTIONS
With PostScript, xfig can be used to create multiple page figures.
Specify the -M option to produce a multi-page output. For posters, add
-O to overlap the pages slightly to get around the problem of the un-
printable area in most printers, then cut and paste the pages together.
Great for text with very big letters.
The EPS driver has the following differences from PostScript:
o No showpage is generated because the output is meant to be im-
ported into another program or document and not printed
o The landscape/portrait options are ignored
o The centering option is ignored
o The multiple-page option is ignored
o The paper size option is ignored
o The x/y offset options are ignored
The EPS driver has the following two special options:
-B 'Wx [Wy X0 Y0]'
This specifies that the bounding box of the EPS file should have
the width Wx and the height Wy. Note that it doesn't scale the
figure to this size, it merely sets the bounding box. If a
value less than or equal to 0 is specified for Wx or Wy, these
are set to the width/height respectively of the figure. Origin
is relative to screen (0,0) (upper-left). Wx, Wy, X0 and Y0 are
interpreted in centimeters or inches depending on the measure
given in the fig-file. Remember to put either quotes (") or
apostrophes (') to group the arguments to -B.
-R 'Wx [Wy X0 Y0]'
Same as the -B option except that X0 and Y0 is relative to the
lower left corner of the figure. Remember to put either quotes
(") or apostrophes (') to group the arguments to -R.
The PDF driver accepts all of the PostScript options, if the -P (page-
mode) option is given. In this case, the size of the PDF is the page-
size given in the file or set from the command line via the -z option.
Otherwise, if -P is not given, the PDF is cropped to the bounding box
of the figure (optionally with a blank border margin set by the -b op-
tion), and all of the EPS options are supported.
Text can now include various ISO-character codes above 0x7f, which is
useful for language specific characters to be printed directly. Not
all ISO-characters are implemented.
Color support: Colored objects created by Fig can be printed on a color
postscript printer. There are 32 standard colors: black, yellow, white,
gold, five shades of blue, four shades of green, four shades of cyan,
four shades of red, five shades of magenta, four shades of brown, and
four shades of pink. In addition there may be user-defined colors in
the file. See the xfig FORMAT3.2 file for the definition of these col-
ors. On a monochrome printer, colored objects will be mapped into dif-
ferent grayscales by the printer. Filled objects are printed using the
given area fill and color. There are 21 "shades" going from black to
full saturation of the fill color, and 21 more "tints" from full satu-
ration + 1 to white. In addition, there are 16 patterns such as
bricks, diagonal lines, crosshatch, etc.
-A Add an ASCII (EPSI) preview. Not for PDF.
-a Anonymous mode. Do not write the user's login name into the out-
put file.
-b borderwidth
Make blank border around figure of width borderwidth (1/72
inch).
-C dummy_arg
Add a color *binary* TIFF preview for Microsoft products that
need a binary preview. See also -T (monochrome preview). A
dummy argument must be supplied for historical reasons. Not for
PDF output.
-c Center the figure on the page. The centering may not be accu-
rate if there are texts in the fig_file that extends too far to
the right of other objects.
-e Put the figure against the edge (not centered) of the page. Not
available in EPS.
-F Use correct font sizes (points, 1/72 inch) instead of the tradi-
tional size that xfig/fig2dev uses, which is 1/80 inch. The
corresponding xfig command-line option is -correct_font_size.
-f font
Set the default font used for text objects to font, where font
is one of the 35 standard PostScript font names. The default is
Times-Roman.
-g color
Use color for the background.
-l dummy_arg
Generate figure in landscape mode. The dummy argument is ig-
nored, but must appear on the command line for reasons of com-
patibility. This option will override the orientation specifi-
cation in the file (for file versions 3.0 and higher). Not
available in EPS.
-M Generate multiple pages if figure exceeds paper size. Not
available in EPS.
-N Convert all colors to grayscale.
-n name
Set the Title part of the PostScript output to name. This is
useful when the input to fig2dev comes from standard input.
-O When used with -M, overlaps the pages slightly to get around the
problem of the unprintable area in most printers. Not available
in EPS.
-p dummy_arg
Generate figure in portrait mode. The dummy argument is ig-
nored, but must appear on the command line for reasons of com-
patibility. This option will override the orientation specifi-
cation in the file (for file versions 3.0 and higher). This is
the default for Fig files of version 2.1 or lower. Not avail-
able in EPS.
-T Add a monochrome *binary* TIFF preview for Microsoft products
that need a binary preview. See also -C (color preview). Not
available for PDF output.
-x offset
Shift the figure in the X direction by offset PostScript points
(1/72 inch). A negative value shifts the figure to the left and
a positive value to the right. Not available in EPS.
-y offset
Shift the figure in the Y direction by offset points (1/72
inch). A negative value shifts the figure up and a positive
value down. Not available in EPS.
-z papersize
Set the papersize. Not available in EPS.
Available paper sizes are:
Letter (8.5" x 11" also A),
Legal ( 11" x 14")
Ledger ( 11" x 17"),
Tabloid ( 17" x 11", really Ledger in Landscape mode),
A (8.5" x 11" also Letter),
B ( 11" x 17" also Ledger),
C ( 17" x 22"),
D ( 22" x 34"),
E ( 34" x 44"),
A9 ( 37 mm x 52 mm),
A8 ( 52 mm x 74 mm),
A7 ( 74 mm x 105 mm),
A6 (105 mm x 148 mm),
A5 (148 mm x 210 mm),
A4 (210 mm x 297 mm),
A3 (297 mm x 420 mm),
A2 (420 mm x 594 mm),
A1 (594 mm x 841 mm),
A0 (841 mm x1189 mm),
B10 ( 32 mm x 45 mm),
B9 ( 45 mm x 64 mm),
B8 ( 64 mm x 91 mm),
B7 ( 91 mm x 128 mm),
B6 (128 mm x 182 mm),
B5 (182 mm x 257 mm),
B4 (257 mm x 364 mm),
B3 (364 mm x 515 mm),
B2 (515 mm x 728 mm),
B1 (728 mm x1030 mm),
B0 (1030mm x1456 mm).
PSTEX and PDFTEX OPTIONS
The pstex and pdftex languages are a variant of ps which suppress text
that has the text flag "TeX Text" set. The pstex_t and pdftex_t lan-
guages have the complementary behavior: they generate only the text
that has the "Tex Text" flag set and the commands necessary to position
this text. They also generate the commands necessary to overlay the
PostScript or PDF file generated using pstex/pdftex. These two drivers
can be used to generate a figure which combines the flexibility of
PostScript graphics with LaTeX text formatting of text flagged as "TeX
Text".
The pstex and pdftex drivers accept the same options that the EPS
driver accepts.
-n name
Set the Title part of the PostScript output to name. This is
useful when the input to fig2dev comes from standard input.
PSTEX_T and PDFTEX_T OPTIONS
The pstex_t and pdftex_t languages produce only the text flagged with
the "TeX Text" flag, the commands necessary to position this text, and
the commands necessary to overlay the PostScript or PDF file generated
using pstex or pdftex (see above).
-E num Set encoding for latex text translation (0 no translation, 1
ISO-8859-1, 2 ISO-8859-2; default 1)
-F Don't set the font face, series, and style; only set it's size
and the baselineskip. By default, fig2dev sets all 5 font param-
eters when it puts some text. The disadvantage is that you can't
set the font from your LaTeX document. With this option on, you
can set the font from your LaTeX document (like "\sfshape \input
picture.eepic").
-p file
specifies the name of the PostScript file to be overlaid. If
not set or its value is null then no PS file will be inserted.
PSTricks OPTIONS
The PSTricks driver provides full LaTeX text and math formatting for
XFig drawings without overlaying separate outputs as in the PSTEX meth-
ods. The output matches the quality of output of the PostScript driver
except for text, where the Latex font selection mechanism is used as
for other fig2dev LaTeX drivers. In addition, text is rendered black,
although font color-changing LaTex code can be embedded in the drawing.
The generated PSTricks code is meant to be readable. Each command
stands alone, not relying on global option state variables. Thus the
user can easily use XFig to rough out a PSTricks drawing, then finish
by hand editing.
To use the driver's output, give the command "\usepackage{pstricks}" in
your document preamble. The graphicx and pstricks-add packages may
also be required. The former is used for bitmap graphics and the sec-
ond for complex line styles and/or hollow PSTricks arrows (with the -R
1 option). The driver will tell you which packages are needed. In the
document body, include the figure with "\input{pstfile}" where pst-
file.tex is the output file. Use the XFig TeX text flag to have text
passed as-is to LaTeX. For non-TeX text, the same mechanism as the La-
TeX and epic driver mechanism is used to match font specs, but this is
imprecise.
Known bugs and limitations.
PSTricks support for join styles is version dependent. Raw post-
script is inserted with "\pstVerb" for old versions when other
than angle joins are needed. The -t option controls this behav-
ior. PSTricks does not support rotated ellipses directly, so a
rput command is emitted that rotates and locates a horizontal
ellipse. This makes a problem with hatch patterns, which are
moved and rotated along with the ellipse. Hatch rotation is
fixed by a counter-rotation, but the origin is not adjusted, so
registration with adjacent hatch patterns will be incorrect.
Flipped bitmap graphics use an undocumented feature of the
graphicx package: a negative height flips the image vertically.
This appears to work reliably. However, you may want to flip
graphics with another program before including them in Xfig
drawings just to be sure. With the -p option, the driver at-
tempts to convert non-EPS pictures to EPS with the TeX distribu-
tion's bmeps program, but bmeps does not know about very many
file formats including gif.
-f font
Set the default font used for text objects to font, where font
is one of rm, bf, it, sf or tt. The default is rm.
-G dummy_arg
Draws a standard PSTricks grid in light gray, ignoring the size
parameters, numbered in PSTricks units.
-l weight
Sets a line weight factor that is multiplied by the actual Fig
line width. The default value 0.5 roughly matches the output of
the PS driver.
-n 0|1|2|3
Sets environment type. Default 0 creates a \picture environment
with bounding box exactly enclosing the picture (but see -x and
-y ). A 1 emits bare PSTricks commands with no environment at
all, which can be used with \input{commands} inside an existing
\pspicture. A 2 emits a complete LaTeX document. A 3 also
emits a complete LaTeX document but attempts to set the PSTricks
unit to fit a 7.5 by 10 inch (portrait aspect) box.
-P Shorthand for -n 3.
-p dir Attempts to run the bmeps program to translate picture files to
EPS, which is required by PSTricks. The translated files go in
dir , which must already exist (the driver will not create it).
Moreover, (BIG CAVEAT HERE) the driver overwrites files with im-
punity in this directory! Don't put your stuff here. The in-
cludegraphics commands in the output file refer to this direc-
tory. Even if the -p option is not used, includegraphics com-
mands follow this convention with the default directory ./eps .
In this case, the user must do the conversions independently.
The bmeps program is part of the standard TeX distribution. It
converts the following formats to EPS: png jpg pnm tif. You can
see the bmeps command with the -v option.
-R 0|1|2
Sets arrow style. With the default style 0, Fig arrows are con-
verted to lines and polygons. With style 1, the Fig arrowhead
dimensions are converted to PSTricks arrowhead dimensions and
PSTricks arrowhead options are emitted. Hollow arrows will re-
quire the additional package pstricks-add. With style 2,
PSTricks arrowhead options are emitted with no dimensions at
all, and arrowhead size may be controlled globally with psset.
-S scale
Scales the image according to the same convention as the EPIC
driver, i.e., to size scale/12.
-t version
Provides the driver with PSTricks version number so output can
match expected LaTeX input.
-v Print verbose warnings and extra comments in the output file.
Information provided includes font substitution details, the
bmeps commands used for picture conversion, if any, and one com-
ment per Fig object in the output.
-x marginsize
Adds marginsize on the left and right of the PStricks bounding
box. By default, the box exactly encloses the image.
-y marginsize
Adds marginsize on the top and bottom of the PStricks bounding
box. By default, the box exactly encloses the image.
-z 0|1|2
Sets font handling option. Default option 0 attempts to honor
Fig font names and sizes, finding the best match with a standard
LaTeX font. Option 1 sets LaTeX font size only. Option 2 is-
sues no font commands at all.
TEXTYL OPTIONS
-f font
Set the default font used for text objects to font, where font
is one of rm, bf, it, sf or tt. The default is rm.
-l lwidth
Set the line thickness. lwidth must be a value between 1 and 12.
TIKZ OPTIONS
TIKZ is a powerful frontend to the Portable Graphics Format (PGF) for
TeX/LaTeX. To use figures created by the TIKZ driver in a LaTeX docu-
ment, use "\usepackage{tikz}" and, depending on the contents of your
figure, "\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta, bending}" and "\usetikzli-
brary{patterns}" in the document preamble. Simply \input or copy the
output file into the TeX-document. TIKZ files produced by fig2dev may
be included into a plain TeX document. However, the stand-alone file
produced with the -P option must be processed with a LaTeX-engine. In
addition, font-commands may require a LaTeX engine.
-b borderwidth
Make blank border around figure of width borderwidth*(1/72)
inches.
-C num Do not emit a \color-command for the color number num. (0 =
black, 1 = blue, 2 = green - see the color chooser widget in
Xfig). By default, fig2dev does not issue a \color-command for
objects which have the color set to "Default" in xfig. With
this option, the "\color"-command is also omitted for objects
having the color num. The color of these objects, as well as of
those having the color set to "Default", is picked up from the
including document.
-E num Set encoding for text translation (0 = no translation, 1 =
ISO-8859-1, 2 = ISO-8859-2; default 1). For instance, to use
utf8-encoded text, first create a text object, then edit the
text using the edit-button in xfig. Convert the fig-file to tikz
with the option -E 0 and include "\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}"
in the LaTeX file (not necessary when using xelatex). In xfig,
the text typed in may not be displayed correctly, but the docu-
ment produced from the LaTeX file will show the same text as was
typed in.
-F Do not set the font family, series or shape. By default,
fig2dev sets the font family, series, shape, font size and base-
lineskip. As a side effect, this requires the New Font Selec-
tion Scheme (NFSS) of LaTeX. With this option on, the text font
can be set from the including document, which may be TeX or La-
TeX. See also -o (no font size).
-f font
Set the default font used for text objects to font. The string
font may be one of rm, bf, it, sf, tt, \rmfamily, \bfseries,
\itshape, \sffamily, \ttfamily, or one of the 35 standard Post-
Script font names. The default is \rmfamily.
-i dir Prepend the string dir to graphics files included in the tikz-
picture. For instance, having imported "image.jpg" in xfig,
with - i '$HOME/Figures/' the code "\pgfimage[width=...,
height=...]{$HOME/Figures/image.jpg}" will be generated.
-O Do not quote characters special to TeX/LaTeX. Useful to get,
e.g., an italic x, not $x$, because it was forgotten to set the
text-flag "special-text" in xfig. This option effectively sets
the "special-text" flag for all text.
-o Do not set the font size or baselineskip. Text will be rendered
at the size that is in force where the tikz-code is inserted
into the document, e.g., "\small\input fig1.tikz". See also -F
(no font properties).
-P Pagemode, generate a stand-alone LaTeX-file as out-file. Run
out-file through LaTeX to generate a pdf or eps of the figure.
The document produced from out-file will have the paper size
equal to the figure's bounding box (but see the -b option to add
a margin). The package "geometry.sty" is used in out-file to
set the paper size.
-T Only use TeX fonts, even where PostScript-fonts are specified.
-v Verbose mode. Write comment lines into the output file, usually
naming the type of the object that is drawn.
-W Do not emit code at the beginning of the file that allows one to
set the figure width or height from the including TeX document.
Otherwise, e.g., "\newdimen\XFigwidth\XFigwidth=\linewidth"
would scale the following figures to the line width.
-w Remove the suffix from included graphics-files. With this op-
tion on, fig2dev generates code that contains, e.g., "\pgfim-
age{fig1}" instead of "\pgfimage{fig1.pdf}".
TK and PTK OPTIONS (tcl/tk and Perl/tk)
Arc-boxes are not supported for the tk output language, and only X bit-
map pictures are supported because of the canvas limitation in tk.
Picture objects are not scaled with the magnification factor for tk
output.
Because tk scales canvas items according to the X display resolution,
polygons, lines, etc. may be scaled differently than imported pictures
(bitmaps) which aren't scaled at all.
-g color
Use color for the background.
-l dummy_arg
Generate figure in landscape mode. The dummy argument is ig-
nored, but must appear on the command line for reasons of com-
patibility. This option will override the orientation specifi-
cation in the file (for file versions 3.0 and higher).
-p dummy_arg
Generate figure in portrait mode. The dummy argument is ig-
nored, but must appear on the command line for reasons of com-
patibility. This option will override the orientation specifi-
cation in the file (for file versions 3.0 and higher). This is
the default for Fig files of version 2.1 or lower.
-P Generate canvas of full page size instead of using the bounding
box of the figure's objects. The default is to use only the
bounding box.
-w Wrap the figure with code in order to generate a complete perl
file. That is, you can do fig2dev -L ptk -w f.fig f.pl; perl
f.pl and a widget pops up that shows the graphics contained in
f.pl. Only available for ptk output.
-z papersize
Set the paper size. See the POSTSCRIPT OPTIONS for available
paper sizes. This is only used when the -P option (use full
page) is used.
TPIC OPTIONS
-f font
Set the default font used for text objects to font. The default
is rm. The string font can be one of rm, bf, it, sf, tt, avant,
avantcsc, avantd, avantdi, avanti, bookd, bookdi, bookl,
booklcsc, bookli, chanc, cour, courb, courbi, couri, helv,
helvb, helvbi, helvc, helvcb, helvcbi, helvci, helvcsc, helvi,
pal, palb, palbi, palbu, palc, palcsc, pali, palsl, palu, palx,
times, timesb, timesbi, timesc, timescsc, timesi, timessl or
timesx.
SEE ALSO
xfig(1), pic(1), pic2fig(1), transfig(1)
BUGS and RESTRICTIONS
Please send bug reports, fixes, new features etc. to:
thomas.loimer@tuwien.ac.at
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1991 Micah Beck
Parts Copyright (c) 1985-1988 Supoj Sutantavibul
Parts Copyright (c) 1989-2015 Brian V. Smith
Parts Copyright (c) 2015-2018 by Thomas Loimer
Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and
its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, pro-
vided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in sup-
porting documentation. The authors make no representations about the
suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is"
without express or implied warranty.
THE AUTHORS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, IN-
CLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO
EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSE-
QUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE,
DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER
TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PER-
FORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
AUTHORS
Micah Beck
Cornell University
Sept 28 1990
and Frank Schmuck (then of Cornell University)
and Conrad Kwok (then of U.C. Davis).
Drivers contributed by
Jose Alberto Fernandez R. (U. of Maryland)
and Gary Beihl (MCC)
Color support, ISO-character encoding and poster support by
Herbert Bauer (heb@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de)
Modified from f2p (fig to PIC), by the author of Fig
Supoj Sutanthavibul (supoj@sally.utexas.edu)
University of Texas at Austin.
MetaFont driver by
Anthony Starks (ajs@merck.com)
X-splines code by
Carole Blanc (blanc@labri.u-bordeaux.fr)
Christophe Schlick (schlick@labri.u-bordeaux.fr)
The initial implementation was done by C. Feuille, S. Grobois, L.
Maziere and L. Minihot as a student practice (Universite Bordeaux,
France).
Japanese text support for LaTeX output written by T. Sato
(VEF00200@niftyserve.or.jp)
The tk driver was written by
Mike Markowski (mm@udel.edu) with a little touch-up by Brian Smith
The CGM driver (Computer Graphics Metafile) was written by
Philippe Bekaert (Philippe.Bekaert@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
The EMF driver (Enhanced Metafile) was written by
Michael Schrick (m_schrick@hotmail.com)
The GBX (Gerber) driver was written by
Edward Grace (ej.grace@imperial.ac.uk).
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