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William Chia-Wei Cheng
(bill.cheng@usc.edu)
 

Tools That Work with Tgif
 
Pstoedit
Pstoedit is a tool that convert PostScript (TM) files to tgif files. Its home page is http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/1958/pstoedit/. .
 
Gnuplot
Gnuplot is a plotting tool available for anonymous ftp from ftp://ftp.gnuplot.vt.edu/pub/gnuplot/gnuplot-3.7.tar.gz or ftp://ftp.dartmouth.edu/pub/gnuplot/gnuplot-3.7.tar.gz (1,160,768 bytes).

To have gnuplot export in tgif's .obj file format, all you have to do is: 

    set terminal tgif
    set output "something.obj"
    [ more gnuplot commands ]
    set output
Many sample gnuplot commands can be found at http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo/.
 
Xgraph
Xgraph is a plotting tool available for anonymous ftp from ftp://tesla.ee.cornell.edu/pub/xgraph.tar.Z or ftp://bourbon.usc.edu/pub/tgif/tools/xgraph/xgraph-16jun1991.tar.gz (99,040 bytes). This version contains tgif enhancement by Christos Zoulas.

Further minor modifications were made by William C. Cheng <bill.cheng@usc.edu> to compile under X11R6 and produce EPS-friendly PostScript hardcopy using a "-eps-friendly" command line option or a "xgraph.EpsFriendlyPs: on" X resource. This modification is available as ftp://bourbon.usc.edu/pub/tgif/tools/xgraph/xgraph-16dec1998.tar.gz (98,344 bytes).
 

Tgifcal
Tgifcal is a calendar generating tool. Tgifcal calls the UNIX calender program, cal, combines it with a GIF or a JPEG image and generates a PostScript or a tgif .obj file. Tgifcal is available for anonymous ftp from ftp://bourbon.usc.edu/pub/tgif/contrib/tgifcal/tgifcal-1.0.2.tar.gz (15,908 bytes).
 
Tgif-thumb
Tgif-thumb is a thumbnail processing for a bunch of tgif files available for anonymous ftp from ftp://bourbon.usc.edu/pub/tgif/contrib/tgif-thumb/tgif-thumb-0.1.tar.gz (2,439 bytes).
 
Fig2Java
Fig2Java (written in perl5) can convert GOG (Genetics Computer Group) figure files into tgif format or Java source codes, which can be further enhanced in a number of ways, e. g., generate the java-imagemap by Jim Graham's(Sun MycroSystem) ImageMap utility. It's home page is http://www.kazusa.or.jp/java/fig2java/.
 
Cool plots with MATLAB under Linux
Cool plots with MATLAB under Linux - use pstoedit, tgif, LaTeX, and MATLAB 5 plots under Linux.