John, Look at man grops ; inparticular the reference to PSPIC .
The -mps macros (which are automatically loaded when grops is run by the groff command) include a PSPIC macro which allows a picture to be easily imported. This has the format .PSPIC [-L|-R|-I n] file [width [height]] file is the name of the file containing the illustration; width and height give the desired width and height of the graphic. The width and height arguments may have scaling indicators attached; the default scaling indicator is i. This macro will scale the graphic uniformly in the x and y directions so that it is no more than width wide and height high. By default, the graphic will be horizontally centered. The -L and -R cause the graphic to be left-aligned and right-aligned respectively. The -I option causes the graphic to be indented by n. I use it with the .DS/.DE display macros of the -mm memorandum macros to include encapsulated postscript (EPS) images in my documents. E.g. .DS .PSPIC fig/Chalkboard_mic_schematic.eps 5i .FG "Ideal Positions of Contact Microphones .DE Mike On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 08:33:20AM -0700, John W. Smay wrote: > This is a problem I have had for years and hope maybe someone, or > everyone but me, has a simple solution. I write technical text and > equations with groff, then save as .ps (PostScript) and translate to > .pdf (Acrobat). I parallel I generate figures, mostly complex line > drawings or technical plots (not photographs or "art") that are > illustrations to accompany the groff text. The figures are made with > other applications such as Canvas, fortran code, of c code. but all > (most) can be in either .ps, .eps. or .pdf format. > > So in the end I have a file with groff generated code in .ps or > .pdf, and a separate file with the illustration in the same format. > The groff file is a page with text at the top, a blank portion for the > illustration, and more text at the bottom. The problem is to combine > the two files into a single .ps or better .pdf that presents text and > figure on the same page. There must be a command sequence to be > embedded in the groff source that will import the file with the > illustration in a satisfactory fashion. > > I have tried more alternate approaches than I cam remember, e.g.. > importing both the groff .ps or .pdf and the illustration into Canvas > or Word, editing onto a single page, then resaving the result, but > every attempt is flawed in some way! Bolds disappear, subscripts get > misplaced or resized or countless other flaws. > > Thanks in advance, John > > John W. Smay > email: jws...@earthlink.net > web site: http://home.earthlink.net/~jwsmay/prof.html -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com