Fig4TeX A TeX macro package for drawing figures

Fig4TeX

A TeX macro package for drawing figures

and writing on figures

Yvon Lafranche (Université de Rennes 1)

What is Fig4TeX ?

Fig4TeX is a set of TeX macros designed to create a figure at compilation time of the TeX document, and to write text on it in a straightforward way, using the TeX fonts, under total control of the user. These macros can also be used to write a legend on an existing figure, given as a file created by any other software (see Final document in next section).
The macros can be used with the traditionnal plain TeX environment as well as with LaTeX, in both DVI and PDF modes. They have been designed from the user's point of view and can be helpful to design a figurative drawing as well as to build an accurate geometric construction based on points in 2D or in 3D, so that this macro package can even be considered as a kind of geometric modeller.

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Download

macro package version 1.8.4 - May 5, 2007

Unix^* format	DOS - Windows format	Contents of the file
README (~3 Kb)	README (~3 Kb)	Short presentation
fig4tex.sty (~1 Kb)	fig4tex.sty (~1 Kb)	LaTeX interface to macro package
fig4tex.tex (~207 Kb)	fig4tex.tex (~211 Kb)	Macro package
fig4tex.tar.gz (~46 Kb)	fig4tex.zip (~46 Kb)	Archive containing the previous files

^* Unix refers to any Unix system including Linux and Mac OS X. People using Textures on Mac OS 9 (or lower) should download the Unix macro file and modify it as explained in its header.

Documentation
- fig4texDOC.pdf : PDF "User's guide", black and white version (~405 Kb)
- fig4texDOColor.pdf : PDF "User's guide", links and macros highlighted with colors (~465 Kb)
  --> Files related to previous version (1.7.7) are in downloads1_7.

Practical issues for beginners

Version history

Version 1.8.4 - May 5, 2007

Check for compatibility with other packages enhanced.
Creation of the fig4tex.sty file to allow the macro package to be loaded via the \usepackage LaTeX command.
Logo macro \FigforTeX created.

Version 1.8.2 - March 15, 2007

Management of the graphical files simplified: see the section Graphical files handling in the PDF documentation.
Nota: Some browsers may not have the expected behaviour: instead of displaying the specified section targeted by the previous link inside the PDF file, the first page of the document is displayed, or the PDF file is simply downloaded if there is no PDF plug-in.

Version 1.8.1 - February 16, 2007

Bug fixed in \psbeginfig (introduced in previous version and related to graphical file managing when no filename is given).

Version 1.8 - February 6, 2007

PDF support : this new version allows to produce a PDF file using pdftex or pdflatex. The user has only to change the compilation engine from tex to pdftex or from latex to pdflatex. Nothing else is needed, the macros work in the same way as in previous versions.
New macro \figinsertE to insert JBIG2, JPEG, PDF or PNG files in PDF mode.

Version 1.7.7 - July 5, 2004

Since \Diamond is redefined in some LaTeX packages, the macros \Ast, \Bullet, \Circ and \Diamond are suppressed and replaced by \figAst, \figBullet, \figCirc, \figDiamond.
Nota : To make a file immediately compatible with earlier versions, one can insert the following line after loading Fig4TeX :
```
\let\Ast=\figAst \let\Bullet=\figBullet \let\Circ=\figCirc \let\Diamond=\figDiamond 
```
Bug fixed in switching color modes.
Modification of the internal representation of points and joined text.

Version 1.7.6 - June 15, 2004

Bug fixed in \figptsinterlinell and \figptsinterlinellP.
Modification of \figptbaryR in order to obtain the same accuracy as \figptbary.

Version 1.7.5 - June 1st, 2004

Internal improvements.
New macros \psaxes and \figptsaxes to help drawing axes.
New macro \figptscontrolcurve that computes the internal control points used by the macro \pscurve.

Version 1.7.4 - June 27, 2003

Internal improvements.

Version 1.7.3 - June 25, 2003

New macro \pslineC accepting directly the coordinates of the points.
New macros \figptsinterlinell and \figptsinterlinellP that compute the intersections of a line and an ellipse.
3D version of \figptsintercirc.

Version 1.7.2 - April 11, 2003

New macros \psset, \pssetdefault, \psreset and \figset to handle attributes in an uniform way.
New macros \psfcconnect and \psfcnode to draw flow charts.
New macro \figptvisilimSL, a step towards hidden line removal in 3D.
New macro \figptexcenter to compute an excenter relative to a triangle.

Version 1.7.1 - February 14, 2003

New macros \figptmap and \figptsmap allowing to define a mapping by a matrix.
New macros \figwriteb* that takes into account the baseline of the text to be written.

Version 1.6.4 - November 14, 2002

Bug fixed in \figshowpts.

Version 1.6.3 - October 15, 2002

Faster (and better) trigonometric computations.

Version 1.6.1 - June 24, 2002

Fixes a bug introduced in Version 1.5 in \figwrite* macros.

Version 1.6 - March 15, 2002

New definition of \figinit and \figsetview following the addition of the orthogonal projection.
New macro \pslineF{Filename} to draw a broken line from coordinates of points which are read from data file Filename.
Bug fixed in \figptrot macro (3d case).

Version 1.5 - February 12, 2002

"Unlimited" number of points.

Version 1.4 - December 6, 2002

macros \Ast, \Bullet, \Circ, \Diamond added to prevent vertical misalignement.

Version 1.0 - September 4, 2001

first public version.