On Thu, 31 May 2007, Dirk Krause submitted an update to the
fig2vect
package.
The fig2vect program converts figures from jFig, XFig and WinFig to MetaPost, EPS, PDF, TeX and SVG.
Program highlights: - Designed for use with LaTeX/pdfLaTeX. Handling of special text is left up to LaTeX, for non-special text you can choose whether or not to use LaTeX. For text handled by LaTeX you have three choices: - Use the fonts exactly as specified in the Fig file. - Convert to use fonts in the same features (serif/sans-serif/monospaced, normal/bold, upright/italic). This allows to use the same font families in the graphics as in the document where the graphics is included.
- Write no font selection commands (text contains commands itself if necessary).
- X-splines are approximated by a sequence of Bezier spline segments. - Fill patterns are drawn by vector graphics operations. - Image width and height are found by inspecting graphics elements (except texts), the paper format name is not used here.
Location on CTAN: /support/fig2vect Summary description: Yet another Fig to vector converter. License type: bsd
Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.1.6: Bugfix in the mmp output driver 1.1.7: Support for UTF-8 encoded text in Fig files 1.1.8: Option -a allows to create an output file name automatically based on the input file name and the output driver.
Note: the default for text handling changed. If your system uses UTF-8 encoding (i.e. LANG=``de_DE.utf-8'') fig2vect attempts to UTF-8 decode all texts. If you use jFig you must turn this off because jFig already decodes keyboard events and saves text correctly. For details see the http://fig2vect.sourceforge.net/faq.html#h4utf8setdef fig2vect FAQ. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/fig2vect . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=fig2vect (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf