TRANSFIG(1)

✨ TRANSFIG ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because transfig is about to make your LaTeX figure life SO much easier 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

transfig — creates a makefile for portable LaTeX figures 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

transfig [ -L language ] [ -M makefile ] [ -T texfile ] [ -I macrofile ]
[ -V ] [ control_specs figfile ... ]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the tea ☕: transfig creates a makefile to translate figures described in Fig code or PIC into a specified LaTeX graphics language. Iconic behaviour, honestly.

• PIC files are identified by the suffix .pic 👀
• Fig files can be specified either with or without the suffix .fig — she's flexible like that 💁‍♀️

And bestie, that's not even all: transfig also creates a TeX macro file appropriate to the target language. Two things at once, main character energy fr fr 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

💅 The language specifier

The language specifier must be one of:

box, cgm, eepic, eepicemu, emf, epic, eps, ge, gif, ibmgl, jpeg, latex, map, mf, mmp, mp, pcx, pdf, pdftex, pdftex_t, pic, pictex, png, ppm, ps, psfig, pstex, pstex_t, ptk, sld, textyl, tiff, tk, tpic, xbm, xpm or null.

That's a whole alphabet of vibes, no cap 🌈

• psfig — she's like the ps specifier, except that it makes use of the psfig macro package 🎀
• pstex — she's like psfig, except that it uses LaTeX to process formatted (special) text 🤓
• null — results in the figures being replaced by empty boxes of the appropriate size (yes, literally nothing, but make it sized 💀)
• If no language is specified, epic is the default ⭐

🫶 Naming your files

The names of the makefile and TeX macro file can be set with the -M and -T options.

• The default names are Makefile and transfig.tex, respectively 💖
• If there is already an existing makefile in the directory, transfig first renames it to makefile~ — so nothing gets yeeted without a backup, we love a considerate queen 🙈
• The same holds for any existing TeX macro file 🎀
• If the -I option is specified, then a command to read in macrofile is inserted into the TeX macro file 📥
• If the -V option is specified, the program version number is printed only 👑

🌟 Control specifiers

• -m mag — set the magnification at which the figure is rendered (default 1.0) 🔍
• -f font — set the default font family used for text objects (default "rm") ✍️
• -s fontsize — set the default font size (in points) for text objects (default 11*mag) 📏
• -o option — pass the specified option string through to fig2dev 🚀

🧚 The little details

If there is no scaling, the default font is an eleven point roman font.

Language and control specifiers may occur more than once; they affect the translation of files which appear to their right in the argument list 👈 iykyk, order matters bestie.

If no files are specified, then "*.fig" is assumed 🌸

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

fig(l), fig2dev(l), pic(l), pic2fig(l), xfig(l)

go read those too, they're the extended universe 💜

💀 COPYRIGHT 💀

Copyright (C) 1985 Supoj Sutantavibul
Copyright (C) 1991 Micah Beck
Parts Copyright (C) 1991-2002 Brian Smith

THE AUTHORS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL 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 PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

okay so that's the scary legal part 😭 it means: no warranty, they're not liable, periodt. Read it properly, bestie, it's giving very serious 💅

Any party obtaining a copy of these files is granted, free of charge, a full and unrestricted irrevocable, world-wide, paid up, royalty-free, nonexclusive right and license to deal in this software and documentation files (the "Software"), including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons who receive copies from any such party to do so, with the only requirement being that this copyright notice remain intact.

✨ Translation: do whatever you want with it, just keep this notice intact. That's the whole requirement. Slay.

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Micah Beck 👑

and that's the whole page bestie!! This is Version 3.2.4, from November 2002 — an absolute vintage icon, and yes she still ate 💖✨🎀🦋