Tgif - FAQ

Basic Information & Discussions

• Tgif mailing lists and news groups
• User's manual for tgif
• Tgif file format
• Introduction to tgif / tgif tutorial
• Windows version of tgif
• Y2K compliance for tgif
   

• Animating objects
   

• Compile & link problems
   

• Modifying curves around vertices
• Tgif splines explained
   

• Mail Merge
• Creating Business Documents in Postscript/PDF
   

• Font sizes
• Font faces
• Native language support
• PostScript glyphs
• Accented & math characters
• Adding fonts - for example, the free FF dingbests font and the GIMP free fonts
• Using DECTech encoding to do "box drawing"
• Input double-byte (i.e. Chinese, Japanese, etc.) characters - for tgif-4.x
• Character encoding - for tgif-4.x
• Superscripts & subscripts - for tgif-4.x
• Annotating bitmap & EPS files with text objects
   

• HylaFAX/make_faxcover
   

• ImageProc
• Intersecting objects
   

• Export & Print - also contains information about exporting GIF files
• Export Windows EPS files
• Export HTML files - with client-side imagemaps
• Import EPS files
• Import EPS files generated by ImageMagic's "convert" - "/stackunderflow" error
• Import graphics files with too many colors
• Import transparent GIF files
   

• Connecting to the Web
   

• Keyboard bindings
• Mouse - for tgif-4.x
   

• Problems installing the LaTeX Equation Package
• eq4xpm.sym
• Customizing eq4.sym
   

• Popup & pulldown menus - for tgif-4.x
   

• Anchoring/attaching an endpoint of a line to an object
   

• Changing resolutions
   

• Changing paper size
   

• Running in slideshow mode - for tgif-4.x
   

• System-specific problems - Mac installation problem, latex-equation problem on 64-bit systems, copy & paste problem on Red Hat, font problem on Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and SuSE, etc.
   

• Creating Venn Diagrams
• Creating cartoon characters
• Bitmap to vector conversion
   

• Video streaming - for tgif-4.x