On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Dirk Krause submitted an update to his

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: Conversion program from *.fig to *.mp, *.eps, *.pdf, *.svg and *.tex License type: bsd

Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changed behaviour: Running with default settings the program now produces best quality instead of smallest output files. When upgrading from 1.0.x and below you should create a new fig2vect.cfg file based on fig2vect.cfg.sample. Bugfix: In earlier versions there were compilation errors when zlib or libbz2 were not found. This is fixed now. ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf