ps2frag(1)

📦 version 2026.0, in alpine 3.24

💅 ps2frag — a manual page, bestie edition ✨

okay so real talk, this is ps2frag(1) from the General Commands Manual, and it's here to tell you the tea. 🫖

🌸 NAME 🌸

ps2frag — bestie, it's an obsolete shell script for the PSfrag system. yes, obsolete. it's giving retirement party. 💀

🚨 IMPORTANT NOTICE 🚨

okay so the plot twist: the new PSfrag system no longer requires the ps2frag script. nope, not even a little. instead, it handles the processing entirely within TeX/LaTeX and DVIPS. and honestly? never needing to run ps2frag again is a nice convenience, and I'm sure you will agree. periodt. 👑

but bestie, don't run off yet, because there are two significant differences in the way this new version of PSfrag works. please make yourself aware of them, fr fr:

  1. XDvi is no longer able to determine where your PSfrag replacements should go, so instead it lines them up in a vertical list to the left of the figure. lowkey annoying but it does allow you to confirm that they have been typeset properly, at least. however — to confirm that PSfrag positions your replacements properly, you will have to view the PostScript version of your file with a viewer like GhostView, or print it out. this seems to be the only disadvantage to the elimination of the pre-processing step. 🙈
  2. If you embed '\tex' commands inside your figures, you now need to explicitly _tell_ PSfrag to process these commands. like, be direct with it. to do so, use \usepackage[scanall]{psfrag} instead of \usepackage{psfrag} at the beginning of your LaTeX file. ✨

if you only use '\tex' commands in a small number of figures, then a more efficient might be to turn on '\tex'-scanning only for those figures. (yes, that sentence is doing its own thing, we're keeping it exactly as it is, no notes 💅). to do that, add the command '\psfragscanon' immediately before each relevant \includegraphics or \epsfbox command. 🎀

📝 NOTES 📝

See the PSfrag documentation for further information. that's it, that's the note. go read the docs, bestie. 🦋

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

the whole friend group, all linked up. 🌈

💖 AUTHORS 💖

psfrag@rascals.stanford.edu

  • The PSfrag maintainer's mailing list. 🫶
⚠️ reminder: this script is obsolete. don't be out here running it like it's 1995. the new system does it all inside TeX/LaTeX and DVIPS now. iykyk. 💜

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie — brought to you by TeXware, dated Feb 95, and yes, this is ps2frag(1). slay, stay processed, and go look at your PostScript in GhostView. 💅✨🎀

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