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pic2graph script from groff-1.20.1
#! /bin/sh
#
# pic2graph -- compile PIC image descriptions to bitmap images
#
# by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>, July 2002
# In Unixland, the magic is in knowing what to string together...
#
# Take a pic/eqn diagram on stdin, emit cropped bitmap on stdout.
# The pic markup should *not* be wrapped in .PS/.PE, this script will do that.
# An -unsafe option on the command line enables gpic/groff "unsafe" mode.
# A -format FOO option changes the image output format to any format
# supported by convert(1). An -eqn option changes the eqn delimiters.
# All other options are passed to convert(1). The default format in PNG.
#
# Requires the groff suite and the ImageMagick tools. Both are open source.
# This code is released to the public domain.
#
# Here are the assumptions behind the option processing:
#
# 1. Only the -U option of gpic(1) is relevant. -C doesn't matter because
# we're generating our own .PS/.PE, -[ntcz] are irrelevant because we're
# generating Postscript.
#
# 2. Ditto for groff(1), though it's a longer and more tedious demonstration.
#
# 3. Many options of convert(1) are potentially relevant (especially
# -density, -interlace, -transparency, -border, and -comment).
#
# Thus, we pass -U to gpic and groff, and everything else to convert(1).
#
# We don't have complete option coverage on eqn because this is primarily
# intended as a pic translator; we can live with eqn defaults.
#
# $Id: pic2graph.sh,v 1.8 2008/09/29 00:53:29 esr Exp $
#
groffpic_opts=""
gs_opts=""
convert_opts=""
format="png"
eqndelim='$$'
while [ "$1" ]
do
case $1 in
-unsafe)
groffpic_opts="-U";;
-format)
format=$2
shift;;
-eqn)
eqndelim=$2
shift;;
-v | --version)
echo "GNU pic2graph (groff) version @VERSION@"
exit 0;;
--help)
echo "usage: pic2graph [ option ...] < in > out"
exit 0;;
*)
convert_opts="$convert_opts $1";;
esac
shift
done
if [ "$eqndelim" ]
then
eqndelim="delim $eqndelim"
fi
# create temporary directory
tmp=
for d in "$GROFF_TMPDIR" "$TMPDIR" "$TMP" "$TEMP" /tmp; do
test -z "$d" && continue
tmp=`(umask 077 && mktemp -d -q "$d/pic2graph-XXXXXX") 2> /dev/null` \
&& test -n "$tmp" && test -d "$tmp" \
&& break
tmp=$d/pic2graph$$-$RANDOM
(umask 077 && mkdir $tmp) 2> /dev/null \
&& break
done;
if test -z "$tmp"; then
echo "$0: cannot create temporary directory" >&2
{ (exit 1); exit 1; }
fi
trap 'exit_status=$?; rm -rf $tmp && exit $exit_status' 0 2 15
# Here goes:
# 1. Wrap the input in dummy .PS/PE macros (and add possibly null .EQ/.EN)
# 2. Process through eqn and pic to emit troff markup.
# 3. Process through groff to emit Postscript.
# 4. Use convert(1) to crop the PostScript and turn it into a bitmap.
(echo ".EQ"; echo $eqndelim; echo ".EN"; echo ".PS"; cat; echo ".PE") | \
groff -e -p $groffpic_opts -Tps -P-pletter > $tmp/pic2graph.ps \
&& convert -trim $convert_opts $tmp/pic2graph.ps $tmp/pic2graph.$format \
&& cat $tmp/pic2graph.$format
# End
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