TATD(1)

💖 TATD 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to tatd — that's Tool for UML Activity Diagrams — living in section 1 of the General Commands Manual, aka the place where your user commands hang out. it's giving main character energy and it's about to draw your whole activity diagram. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

tatd [options] [document]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so tatd is an X11/Motif based graphical editor for drawing UML activity diagrams. no cap. 🦋

documents can be loaded from and stored to a file. it can print documents to a PostScript printer, or save as PostScript to a file. obsessed with the versatility honestly. 💅

tatd is part of The Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling (TCM). it's literally one of the siblings. 👑

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

you can call tatd with a single document name as argument.

• if that argument is an existing file, tatd tries to load a document from it. 🫶
• if it does not exist, a new document is created with the argument as document name.
• tatd files should have suffix '*.atd'. that's the vibe check, fr fr.

without a document argument, tatd creates a new empty activity diagram with the name 'untitled.atd'. iconic default behavior. ✨

and in addition to the standard X11 toolkit options (see X11(7)), tatd accepts the options listed below:

• -drawing widthxheight — create a drawing area of width pixels wide and height pixels high. size it up bestie 📐
• -help — write all available options to standard output and quit. your little helper 🥺
• -maxdrawing widthxheight — the drawing area can not be larger than width pixels wide and height pixels high. boundaries, we love them 💀
• -priv_cmap — start the editor with a private colormap. 💅
• -projdir directory — set the project directory (current working directory) to directory. 📁
• -toPS [file.ps] — generate PostScript (to file.ps, or to stdout when no file name was given) and quit. 🔥
• -toEPS [file.eps] — generate EPS (to file.eps, or to stdout when no file name was given) and quit. 🌈
• -toFig [file.fig] [-latex] — generate Fig format (to file.fig, or to stdout when no file name was given) and quit. when the -latex option is given, LaTeX fonts are generated, otherwise normal PostScript fonts are generated. the Fig format can be read by xfig(1) and fig2dev(1). 👑
• -toPNG file.png — generate PNG format to file.png and quit. 🖼️
• -toPS [file.ps] — generate PostScript (to file.ps, or to stdout when no file name was given) and quit. (yep, she's listed twice in the original, and we're keeping both — every detail stays 🫡)
• -version — write the TCM version to standard output and quit. ⭐

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🦋 ENVIRONMENT 🦋

the TCM_HOME environment variable should be the directory where the TCM files are installed. 🏠

• PATH — should include $TCM_HOME/bin
• MANPATH — should include $TCM_HOME/man
• PRINTER — name of the default printer that is used by tatd. 🖨️
• LD_LIBRARY_PATH — should include $TCM_HOME/lib when the distribution contains shared object libraries in $TCM_HOME/lib.

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🧚 FILES 🧚

the following relative files are relative to $TCM_HOME. 📂

• bin/tatd — the activity diagram editor. (hi, that's her 💖)
• bin/psf — a program to filter PostScript output.
• lib/banner.ps — PostScript banner page that can be used when the printer does not print a banner page. 🎀
• lib/help/* — the help directory contains a collection of text files for the on-line help.
• lib/TCM — X Resources (the same as the ones that are built-in). you can customize the fonts and colors by setting resources in your X defaults database. each string of the form `TCM.resource:definition` sets a resource. 💅
• /tmp/tcmXXXXXX — pseudo random temporary file, for PostScript output. 🗂️
• lib/tcm.conf — TCM editor configuration file. this file contains values for some of the editor defaults like the page size, the default fonts etc. this file is read by each editor upon startup. 📖
• $HOME/.tcmrc — each user of TCM can override some of the options of tcm.conf by its own configuration file, installed in $HOME/.tcmrc. personalization era 🫶

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

Frank Dehne, Roel Wieringa and Henk van de Zandschulp -- TCM (Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling), User's Guide and Reference. this document is available as PostScript and HTML in $TCM_HOME/doc or as HTML via the URL http://www.cs.utwente.nl/~tcm/tcm-usersguide.html. ✨

tcm(1), X11(7), xfig(1), fig2dev(1)

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🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Frank Dehne (frank@cs.vu.nl). thank you king 👑

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💀 BUGS 💀

please send bug reports to tcm@cs.utwente.nl. not me manifesting a bug-free life for u 🙈

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and that's the whole page bestie, no skipped sections, no missing flags, periodt 💅

this lil legend lives in the General Commands Manual and it's serving 2 February 2000 realness. go draw something iconic with her 🎀✨🦋