Fall 2006 Document preparation 4Other tools: xfigxfig is a menu-driven tool that allows a user tointeractively create and manipulate figures. Featuresinclude:☞ Drawing lines, ellipses, splines, polygons, rectangles,arcs, and arrows.☞ Entering text and arrows.☞ Components can be scaled, moved, copied,COP 4342Fall 2006 Document preparation 4deleted, flipped, rotated, and aggregated into largercomponents.☞ A variety of line styles are supported.☞ Libraries of icons are also supported.☞ Items can also be floodfilled with colors or patterns.COP 4342Fall 2006 Document preparation 4xfig exampleCOP 4342Fall 2006 Document preparation 4xfig exampleCOP 4342Fall 2006 Document preparation 4Other xfig capabilities☞ Can export into different formats (default is figformat, but in this slide presentation, the fig files wereexported as png files), including LATEX picture format,MetaPost, MetaFont, gif, encapsulated PostScript,Portable Document Format, png, and jpeg.☞ Can use a grid to control placement (“snap to grid”.)☞ Can change the characteristics of existing objects.COP 4342Fall 2006 Document preparation 4☞ Can perform group operations on aggregations ofobjects.COP 4342Fall 2006 Document preparation 4xv, gimp, krita and inkscapeThere are a number of programs to display ormanipulate images. The program xv is one of theoldest; it has steadily gained features over the years.Another is the gimp, which has as its strongest pointmanipulation, although many people have criticized itsinterface.Recently krita has become quite popular. Likegimp, it also has its strongest manipulation of images.COP 4342Fall 2006 Document preparation 4A different kind of program is inkscape, whichwhile it can take in an image graphic, its strong point iscreating scalable vector graphics (SVG).COP 4342Fall 2006 Document preparation 4spell and ispellThe spell utility will check a file for spellingproblems. It is usually just a script pointing toaspell/ispell running in batch mode.The aspell program is a replacement from GNUfor ispell. Its default mode is interactive. aspell isvery featureful, and interfaces well with emacs.COP 4342Fall 2006 Document preparation 4Printing control with lpr/lprm/lpq☞ lpr – The traditional BSD method of queuing printitems to printers. Some popular options are:-#NUM a number of copies-PQUEUE specify a print queue by name-p run a formatter over the file before its printed so that print job information is given.☞ lpq [-PQUEUE] – Lets you look at the print jobsfor a given queue QUEUE. It gives a job number foreach that is useful for deleting items with lprm.☞ lprm [-PQUEUE] [-] – Lets you remove itemsCOP 4342Fall 2006 Document preparation 4from a print queue. You can either specify jobnumbers (determined from lpq), or with just “-”,which removes all of your items from a queue.COP 4342Fall 2006 Document preparation 4prpr is a common formatter for print jobs thatdoes various tasks, such as placing header/footerinformation such as page numbers and doublespacing.Common options:-W NUM set page width to NUM-l NUM set page length to NUM-h HEADER specify header rather than the default, which is the filename-d doublespace output-COLUMN multicolumn output: print with COLUMN number of columns-w NUM set page width to NUM for multiple column outputCOP 4342Fall 2006 Document preparation 4a2psThe program a2ps converts text files to PostScript. Itallows you to do things such as printing multiple virtualpages on a single page.For example:a2ps --print-anyway yes -5 -o termcap.ps /etc/termcapwill reformat the /etc/termcap file to five pages persheet.COP 4342Fall 2006 Document preparation 4Common options for a2ps-r landscape mode-f # use font size #-o OUT write output to file name OUT rather thanprinting to ‘‘lpr’’--columns N N columns per page-# prints # pages per sheet of paperCOP
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