fig2mpdf(1) Including xfig figures into LaTeX documents fig2mpdf(1) NAME fig2mpdf - creation of multilayer pdf or eps figures from fig files using latex for typesetting SYNOPSIS fig2mpdf [OPTION]... FILE DESCRIPTION This tool can create pdf or eps figures using fig files as source. For beamer presentations for example you can use the multilayer mode to create multiple figures who can be overlayed to get a dynamic figure. For the propper appearance you can use latex for typeseting all or some texts who probably contain formulas. The default interpretation of the given fig FILE depends on its suffix fig Normal convertion of a fig file. All texts are interpreted as postscript texts and all elements of the figure are included in the resulting figure. lfig LaTeX interpretation of the file. All texts of the input file who have the special bit set are typeseted by pdflatex rsp. latex (see: Option -|+l). mfig Multilayer file interpretation. Depending on the used depths of the figure its splited into multiple parts. For each part an output file is created (see: section MultiLayerOutput). mlfig or lmfig Combination of multilayer and LaTeX interpretation of the intput (see: Suffix lfig and mfig). The default interpretation of the input can be changed by using the options below. OPTIONS -e produce an eps output file. Instead creating a pdf file which is default an eps figure is produced. -|+l force calling (pdf)latex (-) or do not using (pdf)latex (+) for typesetting the text marked with the special flag. With this option you can change the default behaviour given by the input file suffix. -|+m force set (-) or unset (+) the multilayer interpretiation (see: MultiLayerOutput below) which was previously set by the input file suffix. -p ranges explicitely set the ranges of depths for splitting the input figure in multilayer mode. ranges is a colon separated list of ranges of the form upper-lower or depth where upper is the top most, lower the downmost depth to the range. If you use the depth type the range consist of just that depth. -i include the the downmost range (that one with the highest depths) into all output figures. This is for comatibility to older versions of this tool. -I turn on pyramid mode. The figure of a corresponding range in multilayer mode includes all lower ranges too. -g gapwidth set the allowed gapwidth between two used depths to decide if these depths should be grouped together in one range. With this option you get more flexibility to insert objects with new depths. The default width is zero (no gap = consecutively num bered depths are grouped together). -s style replace the default style for selecting a font family in LaTeX mode. If this option is omitted the style times is set by default. -H header replace the default header sequence for creating temporary LaTeX documents in LaTeX mode. To get maximum flexibility you can set the entire document header in the file header (see: Customized Headers below). -G in multilayer mode change the default output file pattern to the PGF format which is .page. -v be verbose and print out all executed commands -V print out the version of fig2mpdf MultiLayerOutput In xfig you can assign an individual depth to all objects of the fig ure. These depths are normally used to determine the order of printing the objects. fig2mpdf uses these depths to group the objects into ranges in automatic mode (if the ranges option is omitted). Of the list of used depths consecutively numberd depths are grouped into one range. I.e. all gaps between used depths are splitting the figure logically. With -g you can set the accepted gapwidth which doesnt split the fig ure (default gapwidth is zero). The obtained list of ranges determine the number output files. In default mode all objects with depths assigned to one range are col lected and put into the corresponding output file. The contents of the output files can be changed with the two Options -i and -I. The -i option reduces the number of output files by one. The downmost range, this is the range which consist of the highest depths of the figure, is included into all output files. In pyramid mode, activated by the option -I, the output files are con taining additionally all lower ranges. With this mode you can get stand allone figures who dont have to be overlayed to have meaningfull con tent. Example 1 Assuming that you have a fig file foo.fig which contains the three ranges 230-233, 455-460 and 499-500 With no options set you get three output files one per range. But if you set the -i option you get the following two files where the down most range is included in both of the files: foo-0.pdf with ranges 455-460 and 499-500 foo-1.pdf with ranges 230-233 and 499-500. Example 2 The pyramid mode activated by the option -I will produce the following files of the source file of Example 1: foo-0.pdf with ranges 499-500 foo-1.pdf with ranges 455-460 and 499-500 foo-2.pdf with ranges 230-233, 455-460 and 499-500. Example 3 If both options are set you will get just two files of following con tens: foo-0.pdf with ranges 455-460 and 499-500 foo-1.pdf with ranges 230-233, 455-460 and 499-500. Customized Headers For some reason you might want to change the standard latex generation, e.g. if you want to change the default font family. The following exam ple represents a valid header file. The usage of this example file changes the font family to sans serif and adds an additional search path for includegraphics to the figures subdirectory. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{german,amssymb,amsmath} \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault} \AtBeginDocument{\graphicspath{{figures/}}} The following packages are generally used: color, graphicx and epsfig. Tex errors Sometimes it may occure that latex generates an error while processing your special texts. To keep you informed about the occurance of that error and about what has happened the log file is shown in that cases by invocing a less command. Files In single layer mode for the resulting files the suffix fig is exchanged by pdf (rsp. eps) (i.e. foo.fig -> foo.pdf). In multilayer mode the base name of the source fig files is extendet by _ and the suffix is set to pdf (rsp. eps). (i.e. foo.fig -> foo-0.pdf, foo-1.pdf, foo-2.pdf, ... or foo.fig -> foo.page0.pdf, foo.page1.pdf, foo.page2.pdf, ... if option -G is set). SEE ALSO xfig(1) fig2dev(1) gawk(1) pdflatex(1) latex(1) dvips(1) Jun 2006 fig2mpdf(1)