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1. Register Name Register Name 361 Juan Carlos Del Valle 362 Jonathan Cornell 363 Vu Xuan Dung 364 Karl Gabriel 365 Pascal Picard 366 Markus Lazanowski 367 Andrew Lewis 368 369 Dudley Cooke 370 371 Eugenio Guevara 372 373 Joseph Carilus Ogwel 374 375 Zenon Erendon 376 377 Suraj Shrestha 378 379 Gemma Nicholson 380 381 Moritz Brendel 382 383 Jovan Golic 384 385 Soren Dalsgaard 386 387 Robert Luke 388 389 Alexander Wipfler 390 391 Tim Schnakenberg 392 28 December 2009 Table B 6 Registered users part six van Beurden Appendix C LaTeXPiX Script Language Ipx format 63 Appendix C LaTeXPiX Script Language lpx format To be able to store objects a dedicated language was developed by the author called the Ipx format The description of this format is in this appendix and may be used without warranty for third party tools and scripting C 1 Global Line The first line of the Ipx file is always the so called Global command line This line is recognised by the first and last character being a dollar sign Moreover the string GlobalOptions is always used Currently there are no global lines other than the GlobalOptions But in the future the global lines might be extended for example to indicate global groups of objects which should be kept together Example of the global options tag GlobalOptions sv 3 uu 0 254 bu 2870 C 2 Global Tags Tags used in the global line are sv s
2. CTRL F Draw plain framebox CTRL I Draw plain circle CTRL J Insert JPG PNG image CTRL L Draw plain line CTRL M Draw plain vector CTRL N Draw plain spline CTRL O Draw plain oval CTRL P Draw plain polygon CTRL O Draw plain square CTRL R Draw plain rectangle CTRL S Save file CTRL V Paste selected object CTRL X Draw plain arc CTRL Z Undo last operation CTRL TAB Browse objects CTRL PGUP Send current selected object to front CTRL PGDW Send current selected object to back CTRL DEL Delete currently selected polygon spline point CTRL BkSp Set final polygon spline point and leave open CTRL Convert to ATEX amp save CTRL Preview PDF output ALT F4 Exit ALT D Draw shaded dot ALT E Draw shaded ellipse ALT I Draw shaded circle ALT N Draw shaded spline ALT P Draw shaded polygon ALT Q Draw shaded square ALT R Draw shaded rectangle SHIFT D Draw colour filled dot SHIFT E Draw colour filled ellipse SHIFT I Draw colour filled circle SHIFT N Draw colour filled spline SHIFT P Draw colour filled polygon SHIFT Q Draw colour filled square SHIFT R Draw colour filled rectangle SHIFT Convert to ATEX amp copy SHIFT Preview YAP output SHIFT PGUP Move canvas left by 1 raster SHIFT PGDW Move canvas right by 1 raster N J H M van Beurden Appendix A LaTeXPiX Keyboard Shortcut Keys 55 SHIFT HOME Move canvas to left SHIFT END Move canvas to right Table A 1 Keyboard Shortcut Keys N J H
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4. m Generated registry key This key can be generated within leXPiX under Help Register of the main menu This should be a 8 digit number e g 98427842 Name Your full name which may not contain more than 30 characters e g John McLean Nicknames are not accepted Additional information not required for actual registration process N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 38 8 Registering LaTeXPiX amp Language Translations m Email address when no reply should be generated The registration file will be send via email by replying your sent email If you want me to reply to another email address please notice this in your mail When no email address is provided will just reply your sent email m Notes What do you like or dislike on m Possible improvements to Even small changes or personal favourites are very welcome m Further remarks Some information about yourself like the country you live in what you use for profession questions what drawing packages you have used before etc Just to know little bit more about who is using La and for which purposes Send the email containing the specified fields to beurden email com will try to process your registration request a s a p but please be patient If you don t receive an answer within a week please try to send the request again because my mailbox could be full or out of order for a while It will be indicated in the email you receiv
5. vila 295 David Zmiaikou 296 Antonio Jos Ocaa vila 297 Hans Joerg Schmerer 298 Iris Steenhout 299 Valeriana Colao 300 Greg Johnson 301 Comet Cloudy 302 Wojciech Myszka 303 Latifa Faouzi 304 Dirk Keppens 305 Frank Petitjean 306 Jens Linden 307 Joo Vitor Torres 308 Tihomir Tenev 309 Leonidas E de la Rosa 310 Valdete Maria da Silva 311 Cornelius Koot 312 Stefan Weigert 313 Kenneth Hong 314 Till Stensitzki 315 Ben Moss 316 Roberto Pesce 317 Allison Piccolo 318 Charles Chimedza 319 Sean Droms 320 Laszlo Toth 321 Ryan C Platt 322 David Clarke 323 Gardner Marshall 324 Oliver Gaberle 325 Ruben Agapito 326 Julian Russell 327 Ernest Afari 328 Edward Fondis 329 Toomas Hinnosaar 330 Bob Koch 331 Mario Fiorini 332 Geoff Webb 333 Stephan Matos Camacho 334 Zoltan Szabo 335 Jean Jacques Mathieu 336 Jason Trounce 337 Ayan Kumar Bandyopadhyay 338 Pencho Sabev 339 Maurizio DEliseo 340 Xiang Zheng 341 Lev Glebsky 342 Nguyen Huu Dien 343 Marie Luise Queeleit 344 Hsiu Ting Yu 345 Randall Helmstutler 346 Stefan Sj rs 347 Markus Stadler 348 Toan Tran Van 349 Beljith Perunthileri 350 Horst Mischik 351 Bartolome Barcelo 352 Ta Tuan Thanh 353 Miguel de la Torre 354 Adhi Hargo 355 Subiono 356 Matthias Haselberger 357 Nguyen Tien Diep 358 Ilya Shutov 359 Fermin Acosta 360 Bruno Lazarotto Lago Table B 5 Registered users part five N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 62 Appendix B Registered Users
6. Chapter 9 History List amp Known Bugs 9 1 Known Bugs 9 2 History List Bibliography Appendix A LaTeXPiX Keyboard Shortcut Keys Appendix B Registered Users 28 December 2009 Table Of Contents 20 21 21 21 21 21 23 23 23 23 24 24 25 25 25 25 25 25 26 26 26 26 26 29 29 29 30 35 37 37 38 38 39 41 41 41 51 53 57 N J H M van Beurden Table Of Contents VII Appendix C LaTeXPiX Script Language 1 format 63 C 1 Global Line 63 C 2 Global Tags 63 C 3 ObjectLines 63 C 4 Object Tags 63 About The Author 65 List Of Figures 67 List Of Tables 69 Glossary 71 Index 71 N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 VIII Table Of Contents 28 December 2009 N J H M van Beurden 1 Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Introduction In this chapter a brief introduction to will be given 1 1 System Requirements To be able to work with you will need a system with a Microsoft Windows and a TEX installation A windows port of preferably MiKTeX is most suitable for LaTeXPiX is freeware like most TEX products You do not need a very up to date computer to be able to work with though very slow computers could cause some flickering 1 2 User Interface After installing should start automatically After a splash screen you are asked to set some options An explanation of all the options is given in section 6 3 You can also change the preferences later on by clicking the OK
7. The eighteenth CTAN Build 2376 release has the following improvements m Save file as didn t work properly m Reduced the install size by stripping the language file and language editor and remove the example m Added PGF support for image inclusion W Possibility to fix the aspect ratio when resizing This can be toggled on or off by pressing F11 Default is no fixed aspect ratio The seventeenth CTAN Build 2332 2334 release has the following improvements m PGF support for plain shaded and colour ellipses as well as plain shaded and colour circles m Added support for WinEdt 5 4 icon addition m Removed bug when previewing EEPIC The colour filled ellipses and circles were always black The sixteenth CTAN Build 2295 release has the following improvements m Shifting of scrollbars from the main menu did not work Added mousewheel support to scroll the canvas vertically Preview of PGF drawings by using PDFATEX is now possible Added more support for PGF plain shaded color polygons Bezier curves and arrows Coordinate editing added on single object CTRL F1 Transferred cm inch selection to toolbar Added log file viewing of output preview The fifteenth CTAN bugfix 2 Build 2214 release has the following improvements W Offset of horizontal and vertical scrollbars caused shifting of the converted drawing This bug was found by Robert Rutten m Moving the text form caused an incorrect setting of the object coordinates The new object
8. drawing in the local unitlength menu shown in figure 6 1 This menu can be found under Settings Set Local Unitlength x Enter unitlength jo 254 mm kd Local unitlength o 254 mm Converted input from mm to mm Default Cancel Figure 6 1 Local unitlength menu The unitlength can be specified using a lot of different metric systems i e mm cm inch pc pt The value specified will be automatically converted to mm which is the de facto metric system within the eXPiX program 6 2 LaTeXPiX GUI Fonts This menu allows you to change the font properties for most of the 3 leXPiX Graphical User Interface GUI items For example a non standard Windows font can be chosen together with a different character set The option to change the GUI fonts of LaTeXPiX is offered because some languages like Chinese Japanese Korean and so on use non standard Windows fonts with specific charsets The font to use GUI can be set via Settings LaTeXPiX GUI Font Figure 6 2 shows the GUI font selector menu To active the actual usage of the font selected with the menu the option Use User Fonts For GUI in the preferences menu has to be checked See section 6 3 for more information N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 30 Lettertype Small Fonts Er Symbol System Er Tahoma Figure 6 2 GUI font selector menu 6 3 Preferences 6 Configuration Di In the preferences menu see figure 6 3 you can setup
9. M van Beurden 28 December 2009 56 Appendix LaTeXPiX Keyboard Shortcut Keys 28 December 2009 N J H M van Beurden Appendix B Registered Users Appendix B Registered Users Tables B 1 trough B 6 give an overview of the registered users of 57 Periodically 1 will add the names so it could happen that your name is not yet in the list though you have already registered Register Name Register Name 001 Ignacio Pefiarrocha Alos 002 A A Rutten 003 J rn Gruber 004 Masashi Nosaka 005 Renato Basso 006 Viswanath Padmanabhan 007 Joseph Hilferty 008 Brian Davey 009 Anatoliy Malyarenko 010 Charles B Cameron 011 Jean Marie Beckers 012 Nguyen Thai Son 013 Karim Bajestani 014 Manfred Beer 015 George Radutsky 016 Vasiliy Sklyarenko 017 Guy Laroque 018 Jan Rubak 019 Stefan Maus 020 John Hillas 021 Jason T H Lee 022 Deng Ke 023 Anders Aslund 024 Bayron A Delgado 025 Marina L Logares 026 Tim Alderson 027 Corneliu Sochichiu 028 Rosy Atmadja 029 Patsis N Panagiotis 030 Benjamin Hinrichs 031 Edmundo A Marques F 032 Felipe Lora 033 Miguel Hernandez 034 Daniel Nash 035 Daniele Giorgio Degiorgi 036 Qi Yan 037 Bernd Dettmer 038 Robert Rohrkemper 039 Javier Fuentes 040 Mohamed Sobrani 041 Erwin Bruning 042 Claudio Jose Struchiner 043 Annette de Meij 044 Aref Meddeb 045 Alexander Bukhvalov 046 Cheng Lei 047 Ren van der Heijden
10. Philippe Gr goire 173 Lars Borchert 174 Thomas Bonk 175 Samuel Setiyanto 176 Amir Wasim 177 Gerd Richter 178 David Steward 179 Tanczos Andras 180 Pere Mumbr 181 Bernhard Nessler 182 Georgiy Shevchenko 183 Giorgos Tsapogas 184 Mehdi Chelbabi 185 Reza Danesfahani 186 Massimo Caschili 187 Philippe Aubert Gauthier 188 Peter Sigmund 189 Charles Varin 190 Vasile Anastasoaei 191 Elefterie Olaru 192 Ivan Loncar 193 Victor Huertas Navarro 194 Otmar Bender 195 Ardi Bozon 196 Bjorn Sandvik 197 Pierre Bach 198 Pirouz Djoharian 199 lt Secret gt 200 Henning Heinze 201 Michael Bersman 202 J Rao 203 Ausberto S Castro V 204 Ichiro Otsuka 205 Mayuresh Mukadam 206 Gerard Boland 207 Otto Icke 208 Tom Fransson N J H M van Beurden Table B 3 Registered users part three 59 28 December 2009 60 Appendix B Registered Users Register Name Register Name 209 Steven Harrod 210 Nguyen Anh Minh 211 Addison Rios 212 Jeong Mo Yang 213 Gustavo Cevolani 214 Lothar Fr hling 215 Tony Harker 216 Giovanni Facchini 217 Paddy Ewer 218 Vladimir Korzhik 219 Ole K Hardangen 220 Ed Pegg Jr 221 Louis Hotte 222 Yvon Tharrault 223 Maja Kr lak 224 Tim Neijens 225 Charalampos Charitos 226 loannis Papadoperakis 227 Costel lonita 228 Erwann Delay 229 Sergio Celani 230 Carla Victoria V Negret 231 Kim Mittendorf 232 Ondrej Knot 233 Til
11. The line options of most object types can be set in the Line Options form which is shown in figure 3 8 The line style can be one of the values solid dotted or dashed For the case when a dotted or dashed line is chosen the dot dash separation can be set The thickness of all line styles can be set as well and is expressed in unitlengths To set the global line style press F5 To edit the line options of selected objects press CTRL F5 after selection N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 18 3 Drawing possibilities Line Options C Iv Modify Figure 3 8 Line options form 28 December 2009 N J H M van Beurden 4 File Handling 19 Chapter 4 File Handling Explanation is given on how the work with files in 4 1 File Extensions To save the objects in your drawing uses a special script language You can save your drawings by storing the script commands to file A file with an extension 1px will be written When you want to insert your drawing into ATEX you must convert the PiX script commands into WIEX code The resulting ATEX command can again be save to a file with a default eepic or pgf extension 4 2 Advised Way Of Working To keep your setup clean it is advised to follow the directory and file setup as described in this section In most cases you want to separate the text files from any inclusions like drawings JPEG PNG images or other external source files From a personal po
12. distribution of from the style installer within iX It makes no difference anymore because all hacks in the style file should be replaced by other non hacking methods now except for some files like curves sty The second CTAN release has the following improvements Polygons were not drawn converted copied or editable the right way New language support Now much more can be translated There is the possibility to translate most of s user interface with an editor see help file Added Catalan main menu translation and some Spanish additional translations Message box centring Zoom only when on canvas Visual rectangle when selecting multiple objects and better multi select support Merging of files gave errors Now all possible RGB colour combinations can be used instead of some predefined ones Pasting an object when no object is in the memory gave an error N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 50 9 History List amp Known Bugs 28 December 2009 N J H M van Beurden Bibliography Bibliography 1 Adobe Systems Inc Portable http www adobe com 2 Mark Kettering DVIPDFM Users Manual http gaspra kettering edu dvipdfm 3 Till Tantau PGF User Guide http www ctan org tex archive graphics pgf pgfuserguide pdf Document Format Reference Manual Version 1 2 Version 0 12 4b September N J H M van Beurden 51 1996 1999 28 December 2009 52 Bibliography 28 December 2009 N J H M
13. documents when Adobe Acrobat Reader is already open The preview PDF file couldn t be overwritten in previous versions of lt because when it is opened in Acrobat the file gets a read only status m Added rulers with support for centimetres and inches Moreover the grid distance is also controllable from the main drawing grid Some preferences were not stored thanks to Robert Rutten for finding this bug Crash occurred when registering manually Thanks to the various users for pointing this out Set unitlength to 0 254 because in EEPIC 1 inch which equals 2 54 cm so 0 254 mm Transparency can be set for Windows NT based systems Using MDI form for drawing canvas making toggling of toolbar redundant and offering more stable user interface m Using RGB colours instead of CMYK colours This prevents unnecessary conversions and is somewhat more accurate W Option added to snap to grid without forcing the mouse to snap to grid too m Log file can be save containing all statusbar messages for debugging purposes The fourteenth CTAN bugfix 1 release has the following improvements m Removed some bugs from text editor concerning multiple lines Empty lines are lines with just white space are now automatically removed just like ATEX would do m Removed major bug in pasting from clipboard The fourteenth CTAN release has the following improvements m Added German translations by Lars Borchert m Lowered unnecessary RGB to CMYK conversion precisi
14. mouse goes as follows Again you have to hold down the left mouse button within the square of the point you want to resize By keeping the left mouse button down in the square and moving the mouse you can resize the point Note that by default the resizing will snap to the grid When you want to freely resize the point you selected you have to hold down the shift key during the movement By releasing the left mouse button again you finished the resizing In the preferences menu you can specify the amount of time you have to keep the left mouse button down in the square around the point you want to edit This timing limit is there because else you might incidently resize a point when you just press the left mouse button The aspect ratio can be preserved when resizing the object This can be very useful for e g images which are only scaled when the aspect ratio is preserved In order to do this the option in the main menu Settings Maintain object aspect ratio has to be toggled to on This can also be done by pressing the F11 key 5 6 Copying Objects To Clipboard After selection of one or more objects press CTRL C to copy the objects to the clipboard A benefit of copying to the clipboard is that these objects can be pasted in new or loaded drawings 5 7 Pasting Objects From Clipboard After a selection of objects has been copied to clipboard you can incrementally paste them into your current drawing by pressing CTRL V After copying the newly ad
15. rectangle you have dragged so far Mind however that previously selected objects are deselected when you specify a rectangular section to group with the shift key Also the possibility is provided to select all objects by the main menu Edit Select 11 Which is equivalent to pressing CTRLTA You deselect all objects by Edit Deselect All which is equivalent to pressing SHIFT A 5 4 Moving Objects When you have drawn objects you are able to move them along the canvas To be able to move objects you have to select one or multiple objects see section 5 3 Moving objects can then be done in several ways m Mouse Drag amp Drop After selecting the objects you can keep the left mouse button pressed and move the objects freely over the canvas Note that the selected object s will be move with snapping to the grid By holding down the shift after you have started moving the object you can freely move the selected object s over the canvas Note that you have to press the shift key after the movement has started else XPiX will be set to the Edit Area Select mode When you release the left mouse button the objects are locked again and cannot be moved until another move action occurs During movement you will see a preview of the placement m Keyboard When objects have been selected they can be moved by a fixed single step with aid of the keyboard arrow keys up down left right When pressing these keys the object will move over 1 grid distanc
16. speed up Removed a bug in the previewing of splines and removed memory leakage Possibility to draw dots in PGF output mode Canvas drawing area is now white to better simulate paper Used memory shown in statusbar of build 2670 should not have been there since it creates crashes in Windows 9x ME Removed for this build m Removed invalid image drawing when zooming Bounding box was not correct when rotating objects m Current arrow style is now indicated with text in the style form The twentythird CTAN release Build 2670 has the following improvements Major bug solved tool crashed when not registered The twentysecond CTAN release Build 2668 has the following improvements Scientific notation prevented when setting user unitlength Also a bug in the unit version was solved output was always incorrect Automatically clears preview directory when output type changes Output mode EEPIC or PGF now also configurable via Settings menu of main menu When deleting polygon or spline point when zoomed in the figure shrunk When only one polygon or spline point remains the whole object is deleted for the remaining single point isn t visible anyhow Also spline drawing when zoomed in was incorrect The twentyfirst CTAN release Build 2640 has the following improvements New registration procedure implemented Registration request number is now less flexible and formatting of harddisk and reinstalling Windows should have no effec
17. van Beurden Appendix A LaTeXPiX Keyboard Shortcut Keys 53 Appendix A LaTeXPiX Keyboard Shortcut Keys Here a list of shortcut commands is given It might not be fully updated with your current version Key Combination Function INS Copy amp paste currently selected objects DEL Delete current selected object s ESC Cancel object drawing return to edit mode PGUP Move canvas up by 1 raster PGDW Move canvas down by 1 raster HOME Move canvas to top END Move canvas to bottom BKSP Ceil polygon or spline object F1 Open PDF help file F2 Select colour F3 Select grayscale F4 Select arrowhead F5 Select line options F6 Select text options F7 Select image options F8 Select oval options F9 Select Bezier options F10 Toggle image preview F11 Keep aspect ratio F12 Redraw all objects CTRL F1 Edit coordinates CTRL F2 Edit colour CTRL F3 Edit grayscale CTRL F4 Edit arrowhead CTRL F5 Edit line options CTRL F6 Edit text options CTRL F7 Edit image CTRL F8 Edit oval options CTRL F9 Edit Bezier options CTRL A Draw plain arrow CTRL B Draw plain Bezier curve CTRL D Draw plain dot N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 54 28 December 2009 Appendix LaTeXPiX Keyboard Shortcut Keys
18. various global setting and options for La TeXPiX You can access the preferences menu via the main menu Settings Preferences or via the tool panel icon 28 December 2009 N J H M van Beurden 6 Configuration 31 x Mouse Snap Interval 50 Language oi sl Move Resize Time 10 Canvas Drawing Font uad sl Default Grid Interspace Relative Imagepath Default Oval Radius 10 2 Save Directory D Nick Cading LaTeXPX El Default Dot Dash Space 6 Load Directory D Nick Coding LaTeXPX EJ Canvas Drawing FontSize 11 Convert Directory D Nick Coding LaT exPi lt pu Default Unitlenath jo 254 v Snap Cursor To Grid During Draw v Minimize To Tray Generate bak Files Preview using fixed paths Show Image Names LaTeX Executable D Nick Coding LATEXP 2 Use Dotted Grid Ask Save DYI Viewer Executable ick Coding LATEXP 2 ba Confirm Delete Object Confirm Make New File DVI to PDF Executable DAN ickXCoding LATE KP 2 Ei Confirm Exit Confirm Overwrite Converted File PDFlatex Executable ickXCodingNLATEXP 2 Autocreate Image bb File Use User Fonts For GUI Autosave every E Minutes Check for update upon startup Log Actions Alpha Blending NT only TE EG Preferences loaded Defaults Figure 6 3 Preferences menu Offered settings are Snap Cursor To Grid During Draw By default all drawing points
19. yet The fifth CTAN release has the following improvements Preview possibility added The drawing can be previewed ATEX will be executed and a dvi previewer should execute N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 48 9 History List amp Known Bugs Message is shown if file cannot be read from or written to There were some mayor bugs in the conversion of vectors Question is asked to set on long filenames if this is disabled in the Windows registry Long filenames are needed to parse the correct filename when clicking a Ipx file from explorer Bug fixed for framebox rotation When the frameboxed text is not rotated the rotating sty package was still required This was fixed no rotation now means that rotate sty is not needed Bug fixed in framebox right alignment Sometimes the application icon was not present on the task bar Polygons weren t closed properly Preview of rectangles and squares had a small bug Separate objects can be added to a selection group and can be moved deleted and copied The procedure for selecting moving and resizing objects was optimised reducing flickering and improving performance a lot Some bugs in the image insertion editing and viewing were fixed The fourth CTAN release Build 472 has the following improvements A panel is added to the left of the screen with some quick selection icons for drawing and file management It can be turned off by pressing F8 or via the main menu Added aut
20. 048 Claus Greiber 049 Ratael Torres 050 Henk Kelderman 051 Falko Fecht 052 Pascal Lando 053 Mamoun Gadir 054 Eduardo Costa 055 Eric Leclercq 056 Juan Antonio Vera Lopez 057 Stefan Mecke 058 Daniel Badenhorst N J H M van Beurden Table B 1 Registered users part one 28 December 2009 58 Appendix B Registered Users Register Name Register Name 059 David Pluntze 060 Jorge Cobb 061 Nikolay V Redko 062 Ronald Fischer 063 Dirk Smits 064 Janos Fodor 065 Ryszard Walentynski 066 Teck Wong Soon 067 Peter Dahms 068 Luis Gonzalez 069 Alexander Sellerholm 070 Daniel Olaru 071 Lena Luisa HeB 072 Giuseppe De Arcangelis 073 Karsten K Krueger 074 Arba Minch 075 Rob Tinch 076 Qing Zhang 077 Atique Malik 078 Sigvald Hansen 079 Toh Wee Teck 080 Gail Rosen 081 Martynas Manstavicius 082 W R Johnstone 083 Marcel Neitsch 084 Jason R Lewis 085 Peter Zimmermann 086 Todor Todorov 087 Cristian Neculaescu 088 Juliana Doshkova 089 Zhao Jiayi 090 Giorgio Fazio 091 Imran Nyazee 092 Ant nio Caleiro 093 Omar Seawolf 094 Gert Tamberg 095 Albert Troesch 096 Fabrice Collard 097 Benno Bucher 098 Vaquero F P Agusti 099 Steve Vanlanduit 100 Fernando Bastos 101 Dimitri Jeltsema 102 Yanjun Wen 103 Nicolas Marchand 104 Constantin Trushkin 105 R Ermers 106 Ahmad Khayyat 107 ATK Slawek 108 Haysam l Dahman 109 Ryan Aycock 110 Peter Rupert 11
21. 1 Paul Klein 112 Abdelali El Aroudi 113 Hendri Adriaens 114 Milan Sykora 115 Peter Skirka 116 Ignasi Furi 117 Danie Els 118 Arupratan Daripa 119 Janusz Kawczak 120 Adam Kumiszcza 121 Rohit Trivedi 122 Blaz Kmetec 123 Katarina Roskar 124 Bernard Salanie 125 Manfred Kirschhock 126 Rudy Prabowo 127 Alois Kr henmann 128 Heiner Richter 129 Juan Antonio B Bauz 130 Joan Miralles Ramis 131 Guillem Femenias Nadal 132 Werner Goldbaum Table B 2 Registered users part two 28 December 2009 N J H M van Beurden Appendix B Registered Users Register Name Register Name 133 Egon Alber 134 Ammar Qusaibaty 135 Abdelmajid Hilali 136 Alexandre Leblanc 137 Boulag Mohamed 138 Sabah Pouzet 139 Oscar Campo 140 Costas Drossos 141 Paul Pontikis 142 Frederic Cucotti 143 Secret 144 Jusoh Yacob 145 LJ del Pozo 146 Martin Scholz 147 Bryn Jones 148 Arndt Baars 149 Mahdiyar Noorbala 150 Daniel Soll 151 Eugene Danicki 152 J Antonio Seijas Mac as 153 John Stiekema 154 Argyrios Zolotas 155 Mahmud Yunus 156 Theo Tuwankotta 157 Joris Naudet 158 Guillermo Coronado 159 Abdel Rahman Jaradat 160 Magella B dard 161 Chris Finch 162 Ruben Manvelyan 163 Eric Chin 164 Greg Georgalli 165 Priscilla Tse 166 Sylvain Leirens 167 Zofia Walczak 168 Kristina Sj sten 169 Eric Swenson 170 Attila Szegedi 171 Adel Bouchareb 172
22. ATEX for the arc command is redefined To overcome this problem the Nar c command in the curves sty file was modified to Arc preventing a error during compilation to BIEN m rotating sty Style file for text rotation When you are using frameboxes that have a rotation not equal to 0 degrees you have to include this package Optional style files are m latexpix sty In this optional style file the command is present to include La TeXPiX drawings into your ATEX documents The required command to input LaleXPiX drawings into your documents can also be copied to the clipboard and pasted to your document anywhere before the first usage of the command When doing this it makes the latexpix sty file obsolete Pasting the command by hand can be done by pressing the N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 6 1 Introduction button Copy LaTeX Command To Clipboard present in the Style File Installer menu see figure 1 2 and then pasting it at the appropriate position by pressing e g CTRL V in your favourite editor like WinEdt 1 10 Commands Needed When you have converted your file into a file you will get a file which has a eepic or pgf extension To include the converted drawing into your document you will have to create a new command within BIEN You can use the supplied 1atexpix sty file for this see section 1 9 or you might want to refine the command by specifying the command by hand The basic command for inclusio
23. Figure 5 1 shows the result when previewing the drawing as seen in figure 1 1 with the DVI previewer YAP 28 December 2009 N J H M van Beurden 5 Object Handling 27 Yap 0 99g Ipxpv File View Tools Window Help amp amp 41113i gt TT me fne source specials found 232 80 Page 1 1st of 1 2 Figure 5 1 YAP user interface with preview of figure 1 1 But when converting the DVI file to PDF all of these limitations should fade The result of PDF previewing can be seen in figure 5 2 Adobe Acrobat Ipxpv pdf T File Edit Document Tools View Window Help 8 Me eBom DIaml ni amp 8 asgaoo3 sis gm e Cm K DU dl 273 117 eline of 126 Do 8 26x11 69in El Figure 5 2 Adobe Acrobat user interface with preview of figure 1 1 When a PDF preview document is already opened the program will automatically close it when viewing the next PDF output preview N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 28 5 Object Handling 28 December 2009 N J H M van Beurden 6 Configuration 29 Chapter 6 Configuration 6 1 Set Local Unitlength Every pixel in your LaleXPiX drawing will be translated into a certain length in BIEN called the unitlength By decreasing the unitlength you will get a smaller drawing and by increasing the unitlength you will get a bigger drawing For every La leXPiX drawing you can individually set the scale of your resulting
24. User Manual N H M van Beurden User Manual N J H M van Beurden Monday 28 December 2009 Version CTAN CTAN 29 All rights reserved Reproduction or cataloging in whatever way of this publication in whole or in part for commercial purposes is prohibited without the written consent of the author Abstract Abstract This is the user manual of PiX a TEX drawing program that runs under all 32 bit Microsoft Windows operating systems This user manual will show you how to work with the software gives you some tips and other relevant information Please read this user manual before you start working with Please correct me if you find any errors typos in this document For questions remarks bugs et cetera you can reach me by e mail hope you will like and have a lot of fun creating drawings with it To indicate important changes or additions made in this version of the manual compared to the previous release a changebar like currently in the margin will be displayed Clickable links to webpages or email addresses will be indicated in blue N J H M van Beurden beurden email com http www beurden cjb net latexpix htm Disclaimer is distributed as freeware This means 1 All copyrights to are exclusively owned by N J H M van Beurden 2 may be freely distributed with exceptions noted below provided the distribution package is not modified No person or company may charge a fee for th
25. a fatal exception occurs a exception message will be created An example of such a message is displayed in figure 4 2 You get the choice to terminate the program or to try to continue When you choose to terminate the program by pressing Abort your current drawing will be saved under LaTeXPiXcrash lpx and the program will exit When choosing Ignore the program will try to continue when possible but will not save your current drawing ere j x has detected an error or exception Click Ignore to try and continue executing Click Abort to backup your current file to LaT exPixcrash Ip and exit LaT PIK LastError De bewerking is voltooid Exception Division by zero E lgnore Figure 4 2 Example of an exception message N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 22 4 File Handling 28 December 2009 N J H M van Beurden 5 Object Handling 23 Chapter 5 Object Handling In this chapter it will be elucidated how objects can be drawn moved resized edited and converted into IATEX code 5 1 Draw Mode Edit Mode has two modes being the so called draw mode and the edit mode The initialisation of the object is done in the draw mode After the object has been initiated you are offered to possibility to edit the object This is done in the so called edit mode There are a number of edit modes m Edit Move The initiated objects can be moved in this edit mode m Edit Resize The initiated objects can b
26. are snapped to grid when not pressing the shift button If this option is checked the mouse is snapped to grid too Mouse Snap Interval The mouse is snapped to grid during every time interval specified here The time interval can be specified in milliseconds here If you have a rather slow computer try setting the interval to a low value Mouse Resize Time Individual objects can be selected by clicking in their bounding box When an object is moved with aid of the mouse we also have to click in the bounding box of the object and then drag it To prevent unwanted movement when individually selecting objects a timer is presented The left mouse button has to be kept down for a configurable amount of time before an object can be moved So by moving the mouse button up and down quickly you will select an object and by holding the mouse button down for an configurable amount of time you will be able to move the selected object The time to be specified is represented in milliseconds Grid Interspace The space between two grid points can be configured there The value specified represents the number of horizontal and vertical pixels between two grid points N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 32 6 Configuration m Default Oval Radius When drawing ovals the corners will consist of rounded corners by putting quarter circles in the corner of a rectangle Here the default radius of these circles can be specified m Default Dot Dash Space Here th
27. as for ellipses apply here but with some extra restrictions Figure 2 13 shows some possible ovals Oval can only be plain so not filled with colour or shaded The rounding of the corners can be set C Figure 2 13 La TeXPiX ovals test All the oval options can be set and changed via the Oval Options form which is shown in figure 2 14 Oval Options EX Figure 2 14 Oval options form N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 12 2 Available Objects 2 13 Dots Figure 2 15 shows dots drawn by A dot has a standard diameter of 4 and can be drawn in all the available colours The same restrictions as with circles apply o Figure 2 15 PiX dots test 2 14 Normal Text A To add text or formulae to your drawing there are two possibilities First of all you can add text by directly specifying coordinates to start the text This is called Text It is also to specify a box in which you can put text with special properties like the horizontal vertical position and rotation These are called FrameBox Text Mind that all the on screen text is set up to the font size 10 11 12 depending on the settings within the preferences menu These possible on screen font sizes correspond to the default font sizes of 10 11 or 12pt So you can match your P TEX font size settings to PiX font size settings but not vice versa For normal text figure 2 16 shows some examples of the different available styles The text
28. ation of the program to your language please contact the author via email You will then receive the necessary files and tools to translate Since the CTAN 18 release of the editor and translation file have been stripped from the install package and will only be send on request A Vietnamese translation of this manual by Hoa Thai can be found on the webpage of PiXand most CTAN servers The file is called LaTeXPiX vietnamese pdf 28 December 2009 N J H M van Beurden 8 Registering LaTeXPiX amp Language Translations 39 8 4 Registered Users When you have been registered your name will be placed in tables B 1 and B 2 after some time See Appendix B for more information N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 40 28 December 2009 8 Registering LaTeXPiX amp Language Translations N J H M van Beurden 9 History List amp Known Bugs 41 Chapter 9 History List amp Known Bugs The most recent versions of can be found on the servers http www ctan org tex archive systems win32 latexpix In this chapter a list is given containing the changes made to is subsequent versions This chapter may therefore contain vital information to users how are already familiar with program to see what has been changed and what s new 9 1 Known Bugs No bugs are currently known 9 2 History List The twentynineth CTAN release Build 3618 has the following improvements Graphical facelift Added support for PSTRICKS l
29. ave As from the main menu When you are saving for the first time or when you want to change the save file name of an already saved file you can choose File Save from the main menu When pressing save button on the toolbar or pressing CTRL S on the keyboard the quick save command will be carried out 4 8 Merge Files One or more XPIX files may be merged by using File Merge First a file has to be open Then the merge command can be carried out and you will be asked to open a second file which you would like to see merged with the currently open file Mind that after merging the save file name is unspecified to prevent unwanted overwriting of the original unmerged drawing 4 9 Converting To LaTeX Bl When your drawing is finished you can convert it into ATEX code You can either convert it and put the ATEX code onto the clipboard SHIFT or you can put it into a file CTRL which you can include with the latexpix command see section 1 10 You will be asked to specify a directory and filename to output the converted file to The default extension of a output file is eepic or pgf if the output file already exists you will not be asked to confirm the overwriting 4 10 Saving Log File When logging is enabled via the preferences menu a log file can be written out to help with the debugging process In the main menu select File Save Log File to write out the log file to the root of the program 4 11 Exception Handling Whenever
30. button After the preference screen is closed the user interface will become visible You will see a canvas which you can draw on a main menu on top of the canvas some scrollbars to move the canvas a tool bar on the left side and a statusbar at the bottom There are also horizontal and vertical rulers To switch from cm to inches vice versa and to increase decrease the grid distance the button on the crossing of both rulers can be used By pressing the button on the top left the cm inch scale can be controlled The bottom left and top right buttons let you control the grid distance A screen shot of iX is shown in figure 1 1 Mind that the interface shown could have been altered because this screen shot might not be updated every time a new version of comes out 1 every occurrence of IEN actually ATEX2e is ment N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 2 1 Introduction cm H P 9 BER File Edit Draw Drawing Options Move Rotate Resize Canvas Settings View Help 15 10 le lg le le le 8 m 10 NL l le ele LE m o gt lle 01610 lo lula initia state logo Ipx Figure 1 1 a Te XP iX user interface 1 3 EPIC and EEPIC provides a basic but limited picture drawing capability To expand the drawing possibilities the epic extended picture macro package was written by Sunil Podar It provides a simpler and more power
31. colour can be changed though no rotation or alignment of the text is possible therefore you need frameboxes Normal Text Italic Text Bold Text Bold Italic Text Figure 2 16 text test 2 15 FrameBox Text A framebox is a rectangle with text in it that can be aligned in several ways and the text can be rotated You can use this object e g when drawing diagrams which contain plain rectangles that need a centred text in it By adding a framebox with the same size as the rectangles you can center the text within these rectangles The text colour can be changed and the rotation of the text can be configured as well To be able to rotate text please include the rotate sty file to your ATEX package list This only has to be done for rotations inequable to zero degrees Mind that you have to take the style file from in order to be able to rotate your framebox texts by 180 degrees The standard style file contains a bug so when compiling with dvipdfm an error is created The file supplied by does not contain this bug Note further that the text isn t rotated when viewed in YAP But when converting to PDF the correct rotation is shown Figure 2 17 shows some examples of frameboxes 28 December 2009 N J H M van Beurden 2 Available Objects 13 Figure 2 17 La TeXPiX framebox text test For the framebox and normal text objects a form is available in which the objects can be configured and edited This Text Editor
32. cript version Indicates the version of the Ipx script being used in the file Currently version 3 of the format is in place uu user unitlength Here the unit length as customised by the user is stored See section 6 1 for more information bu build number This indicates the build of iX from which the Ipx file was written out C 3 ObjectLines Each object drawn in the lt graphical user interface is stored in a single line called Object Line It contains the object type followed by a series of tags describing the object represented Each object has a different class of tags in order to specify the object When for example a rectangle is drawn only 2 coordinates are required Whereas drawing a polygon requires a flexible number of coordinate tags depending of the number of points contained in the polygon The object lines are recognised by the first and last character of the line being a hash sign 4t Some example of object lines are PlainRectangle pc 000000FF pw 1 ds 6 ps psSOLID x1 234 y1 174 x2 468 y2 402 b1 234 52 174 b3 468 b4 402 PlainFrameBox 00C08080 fs fsNORMAL ta cc tr 90 t1 2 tx CC x1 216 y1 90 x2 246 y2 3220 b1 216 b2 90 63 246 b C 4 Object Tags pc pen colour These represent colours as used by Delphi and C Hence you might encounter a 8 digit string prefixed with a dollar sign like 00C08080 or a string representing the colour e g clRed T
33. ded objects will be grouped and selected 5 8 Duplicating Objects After selection of one or more objects press ins to copy the objects The objects will be duplicated and for visualisation reasons a default offset will be given to the copied objects After copying the newly added objects will be grouped and selected 5 9 Deleting Objects After selecting one or more objects they can be deleted by pressing the del key You be asked to confirm the deletion of the object when you have configured this in your preferences 5 10 Rotating Objects Some objects can be rotated with a step of 90 degrees clockwise or 90 degrees counter clockwise This is still an open issue and not completely working yet 5 11 Sending Object To Front Back You may send an object to the front of other objects Please select a single object an press pgdn to send the object to the back and press pdup to bring the current object to the front N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 26 5 Object Handling 5 12 Redraw All Objects It might happen that certain objects are not displayed correctly anymore e g because Windows hasn t refreshed the screen in time In this case can redraw all objects again Mind that this refreshing of objects should be done automatically but it could happen that the automatic updates of the canvas aren t enough To refresh press the F12 function key 5 13 Recompile LaTeXPiX script New version of might have some modifications done w
34. e When you press the shift key along with the specified arrow keys you move the objects by one canvas point instead of one raster point You have to press the enter key to do the final placement of the moved objects Again temporarily results will be shown along the movement procedure 5 5 Resizing Objects Most of the objects which iX generates can be resized after drawing The following list indicates which objects can not be resized m Dots m Vectors m Text Frameboxes can be resized m Instances Only one object can be resized at a time If you select an object you will be able to see squares around the points you can resize Of course only object types which can be resized show such squares When using the keyboard you have to do a left mouse click within the square of the point you want to resize After holding down the left mouse button in the square for some time you can release it You will see that the square surrounding the point you want to resize is filled Now you are able to resize the selected point with your keyboard by holding down the ctrl key and pressing the left right up or down key Each step made by using the keyboard will comprise a single raster step When hold down both the ctrl and the shift keys you are able to move the corner by a single canvas point When you are satisfied with the result you have to press the enter key 28 December 2009 N J H M van Beurden 5 Object Handling 25 Resizing with aid of the
35. e default number of whitespace points between the dotted and dashed line types can be specified Windows 95 95 ME users cannot visually see the dot dash separation in the PDX drawings see 1 7 for more information on this issue m Font Size The size of the font to use for the text in your drawings so not in the user interface of the program can be specified here It is limited to the default font sizes that ATEX works with being 10 11 and 12 m Default Unitlength The default value for the unitlength as used in the set local unitlength form can be configured here See 6 1 for more information m Language Here the language for the user interface of the program can be specified If you want to translate into your language Canvas Drawing Font The name of the font to use in your drawings so not in the user interface of the program can be selected here You may set this to your default font to be able to preview how your resulting drawing will look like in the PiX user interface Note however that the font is not used when previewing the drawing in DVI or PDF form for here the default ATEX font is used m Relative Image Path When you include image files ATEX has to know where to find these images The default folder to put the included images in is the root directory of your tex source file will therefore expect your images to be in this directory It you however also be that you have put your images in a subdirector
36. e distribution of La Te PDT without written permission from the copyright holder XPiX may not be bundled or distributed with any other package without written permission of the copyright holder 3 i IS DISTRIBUTED AS IS NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND IS EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED YOU USE AT YOUR OWN RISK N J H M van Beurden WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DATA LOSS DAMAGES LOSS OF PROFITS OR ANY OTHER KIND OF LOSS WHILE USING OR MISUSING THIS SOFTWARE 4 You may not use copy emulate clone rent lease sell modify decompile disassemble otherwise reverse engineer or transfer the licensed program or any subset of the licensed program except as provided for in this agreement Any such unauthorised use shall result in immediate and automatic termination of this license and may result in criminal and or civil prosecution All rights not expressly granted here are reserved to N J H M van Beurden 5 Installing and using signifies acceptance of these terms and conditions of the license 6 If you do not agree with the terms of this license you must remove the files from your storage devices and cease to use the product N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 ll Abstract 28 December 2009 N J H M van Beurden Preface Ill Preface Why Many people use BIEN to typeset their documents Using ATEX s picture environment drawings can be added The environment offers several basic shapes hereafter called objects like lines ellipses vector
37. e how to register your copy of 8 2 Updates amp Registry Keys When you install a new version of after you have registered it is not be needed to request another key Your key will stay valid for all new versions of the program If the registration procedure changes will notice this so you can request another key Please note that the registration procedure has changed and it is no longer needed to request a new key when reinstalling Windows The registration request number has changed with respect to older versions of PiX but you should still be registered when using an old key However after some time the new registration system becomes the default and user that are registered with the old keys will have to request a new one The most recent stable releases of can be found on the CTAN servers http www ctan org tex archive systems win32 latexpix Moreover the CTAN versions and beta versions can be downloaded from my homepage http www beurden cjb net latexpix htm When you goto Help Check For An Update then will automatically check if there is a new version available on the CTAN server When this is the case you are asked to be redirected to the repository on CTAN for downloading the update 8 3 Language Translations can be translated to your language Please help other X users to be able to work with the software more easily Some languages are already present but many could be added If you want to contribute to the transl
38. e indicated for each object type Some of the style file which will be listed in this section are already shipped and installed with your installation Mind however that some style files need a specific version to be able to let them function properly with XPIX Some experiments have shown that the results that X gives differs for some packages or when using the wrong version it even cannot process processing during the compilation So please look through each style file very carefully All the required style files can be installed from PiX with aid of the Style File Installer menu To open this menu go to Settings Install LaTeX Files Figure 1 2 shows the user interface of the Style File Installer The most recent versions of all style files should be shown here If not please contact the author so the style files in the menu can be updated to more recent versions Select all the updates needed and save them into your local style file tree See the ATEX manual on more information on where to install the style files or simply overwrite old versions 28 December 2009 N J H M van Beurden 1 Introduction 5 Install LaTeX Style Files E a mj mj mj mj mj a a mj a Copy LaTeX Command To Clipboard Figure 1 2 Style File Installer Required style files are W epic sty Extended picture environment style file Note that there are several versions of this package available If you want to be 100 sure to have a versi
39. e resized by modification of the initiated points m Edit Select Objects can be selected and after selected these can be moved and edited m Edit Extend Select Objects can be added to an existing or new selection and then be moved or edited m Edit Area Select Objects within a specifiable area can be selected and after selection these can be moved and edited 5 2 Drawing Objects A large variety of objects can be drawn If you want to add a object to the drawing canvas you can select the desired object from the main menu menu Draw select it from the button panel or use a shortcut key It will be indicated in the status bar which kind of object you have selected Moreover it will show how the mouse buttons and other keys can be used during the drawing of the object Most of the time the left mouse button we mark a point the right mouse button will cancel the drawing By default the drawing pointer will be snapped to the grid When holding down the shift you can freely move the drawing pointer Releasing the shift key will again active snapping to grid By clicking on a selected position on the canvas you can specify points Depending on the object you are drawing you will have to specify one or more points on the canvas During the initiation of some objects their temporarily result will be shown After you have specified all required points of the object it will be drawn on the canvas After the initiation of the object you wil
40. ent It is also possible to directly copy the converted commands into the document When your document is compiled you receive a so called device independent file This DVI file can be converted to several formats like Postscript or Adobe s Portable Document Format PDF see 1 With the dvipdfm program 2 a DVI file can be converted to a PDF file which can be viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader which is the de facto standard for operating system independent document exchanging So XPDLs core purpose is to convert drawings made in a user interface into a set of EEPIC PGF or PSTRICKS commands so that these can be used in PDF documents that are typeset by ATEX The main advantage of creating figures with the ATEX drawing commands instead of using external drawing programs or postscript is that the same font can be used in the whole document creating drawings is relatively simple costless requires less hard disk space et cetera Because the eepic package uses tpic specials it cannot be used in combination with the package If you want to use PDFLaTeX you have to convert your drawing to PGF 1 9 Style Files You will need to include some style files sty to your ATEX document when you want to include X drawings to your documents Some style files are required for inclusion other packages are dependent on which objects you have used in your drawing The style file requirements will b
41. er 2009 16 3 Drawing possibilities gt x Basiskleuren Aangepaste kleuren BEE D U U UU BEB U U U U Aangepaste kleuren definieren gt gt Annuleren Figure 3 2 Colour selection form Figure 3 3 shows some of the colours that are available in leXPiX though all RGB colours can be used in your drawings Figure 3 3 a leXPiX colour test 3 3 Shade when a object can be shaded it can be filled with a gray scale from 0 to 100 with an incremental step of 576 This can be done in the Select Grayscale form shown in figure 3 4 Select Grayscale Figure 3 4 Grayscale selection form To set the global shade intensity press To edit the shade intensity of selected objects press CTRL F3 after selection Figure 3 5 shows the different shade levels possible 28 December 2009 N J H M van Beurden 3 Drawing possibilities 17 JL E ER BD NE EE EE EN EN EE JL EE NN NE EE EE EE EN EE Figure 3 5 La TeXPiX shade test 3 4 Arrowheads TT The arrowhead can be changed in the Select Arrowhead form shown in figure 3 6 Select Arrowstyle X Figure 3 6 Arrow options form All the available arrowhead styles are shown in figure 3 7 as an example To set the global arrowhead press F4 To edit the arrowheads of selected objects press CTRL F4 after selection gt gt o eo gt gt Figure 3 7 La TeXPiX arrowheads test 3 5 Line Options E
42. eron For the bugs and suggested improvements m Tim Alderson For the suggestions and reporting of several bugs m Slawek For the Polish translations m Lars Borchert For the very good and complete German translations m Hoa Thai Many thanks for your Vietnamese translation of the complete PIX manual m Leonidas Enrique de la Rosa Thanks for the great tips which helped improving the program a lot m Jens Linden Thanks for the great tips and feedback which solved a lot of bugs m Paul Klein Thanks for reporting a number of box in the text editor Adhi Hargo For all the usefull suggestions to improve the program m John Leis For creating LaTeXCAD which was basis of my ideas for And last but not least want to thank all the users of and all people who added a link to my website or offer on their servers 28 December 2009 van Beurden Table Of Contents Table Of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1 12 1 3 1 4 1 5 1 6 1 7 1 8 1 9 1 10 1 11 1 12 System Requirements User Interface EPIC and EEPIC PSTRICKS DVIPDFM PGF Important Notes For Windows 95 98 ME Users Target Style Files Commands Needed Menus amp Keyboard Shortcuts Uninstalling Chapter 2 Available Objects 2 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 2 5 2 6 2 7 2 8 2 9 2 10 2 11 2 12 2 13 2 14 2 15 2 16 Lines Vectors Arrows Bezier Curves Elliptical amp Circular Arcs Rectangles Squares Polygons Splines Ellipses Circ
43. es List Of Figures 1 1 user interface 1 2 Style File Installer 2 1 lines test 2 2 vectors test 2 3 arrow test 2 4 bezier test 2 5 Bezier options form 2 6 arcs test 2 7 rectangles test 2 8 squares test 2 9 polygon test 2 10 spline test 2 11 ellipses test 2 12 circles test 2 13 ovals test 2 14 Oval options form 2 15 dots test 2 16 text test 2 17 framebox text test 2 18 Text editor form 2 19 image test 3 1 Coordinate modification form 3 2 Colour selection form 3 3 colour test 3 4 Grayscale selection form 3 5 shade test 3 6 Arrow options form 3 7 arrowheads test 3 8 Line options form 4 1 Example of added WinEdt button for 4 2 Example of an exception message 5 1 YAP user interface with preview of figure 1 1 5 2 Adobe Acrobat user interface with preview of figure 1 1 6 1 Local unitlength menu 6 2 GUI font selector menu 6 3 Preferences menu 8 1 Key Generator window N J H M van Beurden 67 xO OO CO OO N N 10 11 11 11 11 12 12 13 13 14 15 16 16 16 17 17 17 18 20 21 27 27 29 30 31 37 28 December 2009 68 List Of Figures 28 December 2009 N J H M van Beurden List Of Tables List Of Tables A 1 B 1 B 2 B 3 B 4 B 5 B 6 Keyboard Shortcut Keys Registered users part one Registered users part two Registered users part three Registered users part four Registered users part five Registered users part six N J H M van Be
44. eview The ebezier sty package v4 can handle Bezier thickness and was also updated in the Style Menu This bug was found by Leonidas Enrique de la Rosa Adobe Acrobat 7 document did not close during regeneration of the preview PDF This bug was found together with Jens Linden After editing objects were not redrawn Colour preview panel added Added text fields to quick menu Quick edit added for plain line rectangle square circle dot vector Bezier curve Coordinates displayed when clicking the mouse in edit mode Number of free objects to draw before having to register increased from 10 to 25 Improved logging messages Automatically clears preview directory when exiting the program Toolbar menu now also allows editing of colour lines shade et cetera When an object is selected it is edited When no object is selected the settings are applied globally for new object to create This enhancement was an idea of Leonidas Enrique de la Rosa The twentieth CTAN release Build 2500 has the following improvements When opening or merging files when canvas is zoomed in the drawing was incorrectly loaded Bug reported by Robert Rutten When no objects are selected dragging the when holding the left mouse button enables selecting of multiple objects Idea came from Robert Rutten Added more information and exception handling when the Windows registry cannot be read written Thanks to Keith Mellinger for testing Renamed Generate Registrati
45. form is displayed in figure 2 18 Text Editor Enter your text here a Iv Modify JZ Modify IV Figure 2 18 Text editor form You can enter multiple lines of text which will be separated with the shortstack command when converting to code Mind however that the multiple lines are shown in LaTeXPiX as a single line indicating the line ends with the character Another helpful feature is that the text of an existing framebox object can be edited by double clicking within its framebox area opening the text editor automatically N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 14 2 Available Objects 2 16 Images EI JPEG and some types of PNG images can be included to beautify your illustrations First you are asked to specify the left top corner where the image should be put Next the actual image file to include can be selected Mind that the filename of the image file to include must be all lowercase So a file named e g Image JPG will not be accepted and the file named image jpg will be accepted Note also that JPEG and PNG images need to have a bounding box when included into ATEX This bounding box can be created by the freeware program ebb exe which comes with the dvipdfm package or be created by LaleXPiX automatically To enable automatic bounding box creation in LaleXPiX select Autocreate Image bb File in the preferences menu see section 6 3 The image you include in your drawing has to be put in t
46. ful interface that the standard picture environment of New commands are offered for drawing solid lines dotted lines dashed lines et cetera However epic still inherited many of the limitations of TEX in picture drawing and hence some of the functions either took a long time to accomplish or the output was not very nice looking tpic is preprocessor program for use with TEX It uses a set of special direct postscript graphics commands for drawing pictures The eepic as an extension to both TEX and EPIC tries to alleviate some of the limitations by generating t pic specials The eepic package is generated by Conrad Kwok Extension offered by the eepic package are amongst others line drawing in any slope filled ellipses in any radii more line thickness options arcs splines and polygon drawing Many users work with the eepic command because of their ease of use and compatibility over operating systems and viewers La TeX PiXsupports version 1 1 of EEPIC which is considered as the final version 28 December 2009 N J H M van Beurden 1 Introduction 3 1 4 PSTRICKS PSTricks is a set of macros that allow the inclusion of PostScript drawings directly inside Bi code It is originally the work of Professor Timothy Van Zandt and in recent years it has been maintained by Denis Girou Sebastian Rahtz and Herbert Voss PSTricks commands are low level so many LaTeX packages have been made in order to ease the creat
47. got the same coordinated as the last object drawn This bug was found by Robert Rutten The fifteenth CTAN bugfix 1 Build 2194 release has the following improvements m Picture dimensions when converting to EEPIC and PGF were incorrect m Added some more support for the PGF conversion colour and grayscale now fully supported conversion of plain shade colour rectangles conversion of plain shade colour squares conversion of plain shade colour ellipses conversion of plain text conversion of plain lines The fifteenth CTAN Build 2171 release has the following improvements m Completely rewritten internal database to store objects allowing faster drawing and editing of the objects with less memory Thanks to Robert Rutten for early testing and debugging m PGF output functionality added though not stable yet Only added for demonstration purposes m EEPIC output changed to have extension eepic instead of out The PGF drawings will have the extension pgf This change was moreover done because out is already an output extension for ATEX m Multilevel undo and now working on more stages of the drawing process 28 December 2009 van Beurden 9 History List amp Known Bugs 45 m All objects selectable with CTRL A Arrow drawing used to have this shortcut key and is now assigned to CTRL W m Stripped buggy and more or less useless features like zoom form instances anti aliasing m When previewing PDF output now closes all
48. h and Japanese translations General iX GUI font can be changed this was mainly implemented to deal with the different charsets some languages like Japanese Chinese and Korean use m Removed bugs and improved the preview functionality m When converting drawing to ATEX and saving them to a out file you are asked to confirm the overwriting of the currently existing converted file This message can be set on or off by the Confirm Overwrite Converted File option in the preferences menu Warnings are given when objects are outside the canvas region or not fully visible if they are partially outside the canvas The eighth CTAN bug fix release has the following improvements On Windows 95 98 ME eXPIX crashed because it could not retrieve a registry value This retrieval is removed for now until a good solution is found This caused the bugfix release m All preferences are now stored in the registry instead of in a set file m Added PDF preview possibility m t is now possible to set a fixed executable path for your LaTeX executable DVI preview and DVI to PDF convertor In the old situation is was assumed that you used latex exe yap exe and dvitopdfm exe Also these files had to be specified in the Windows path statement When this was not the case the preview process failed Now you can set fixed paths and specify your favoriet set of executable to use for the previewing Added copy and paste to clipboard commands The eighth CTAN re
49. h the files as described in 4 2 which prevents this issue N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 20 4 File Handling 4 3 File Associations To be able to open a La leXPiX file from explorer you can associate the 1px extension with a 1eXPiX Goto Settings File Association 1 to associate 4 4 Shortcut Creation Desktop and start menu shortcuts can be created from LaleXPIX via Settings Desktop Shortcut and Settings Start Menu Shortcuts For the start menu also the PDF help file will be linked as a shortcut 4 5 WinEdt Additions Some accessories for WinEdt are offered to start LaTeXPiX from this very popular WIEX editor In the main menu choose Settings WinEdt Additions to install a main menu item and tool bar icon in WinEdt The installation of these items is done fully automatically though newer older versions of WinEdt may not be able to cope with the current installation procedure a TeXPiX offers Please contact the author is this is the case for your configuration Figure 4 1 shows an screen shot of the WinEdt tool bar and main menu after addition of the La Te XP iX items i WinEdt LaTeXPiX Installation C Nick coding Lal eXPix_Manual Lal eXPX tex File Edit Search Project Insert Tools Macros Accessories Options Window Help D VY MR Sy aa Z Figure 4 1 Example of added WinEdt button for La TeXPiX If you have WinEdt 5 2 or lower you will have to specify the installation d
50. he same directory as the LaTeXPiX output file extension eepic or pgf Figure 2 19 gives an example of using images in your drawings Figure 2 19 ic X image test Mind that JPEG and PNG images can only be included when using dvipdfm to convert your DVI documents into PDF documents See section 1 5 for more information Also not all types of PNG and JPEG images can be included 28 December 2009 N J H M van Beurden 3 Drawing possibilities 15 Chapter 3 Drawing possibilities This chapter will show you what you can do with the drawing objects 3 1 Coordinates To modify the coordinates of an object select it and press CTRL F1 The coordinate modification form will appear as shown in figure 3 1 D xj Gau x 4162 Y 180 Select coordinate and edit X and Y values then click apply Apply Close Figure 3 1 Coordinate modification form Only a single object at a time can be modified From the dropdown box you can select which point of the currently selected object you want to edit Mind that after modification of each separate point the changes have to be set by pressing the apply button The close button closes the coordinate modification form 3 2 Colour EB set the global colour press F2 to edit the colour of selected objects you have to press CTRL F2 after selection In both cases the colour selection form will appear as shown in figure 3 2 N J H M van Beurden 28 Decemb
51. his might be confusing and propose to implement only the 8 digit string instead of using predefined colour strings pw pen width Digit greater than 0 which indicated the thickness of the objects contours N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 64 ps pb ds x b tx t ta tr pn fs sh in iw ih as or Appendix C LaTeXPiX Script Language Ipx format pen style Can be a single element of collection psSOLID psDOT or psDASH number of points to use for Bezier curves dot space When drawing dotted lines this number indicates the space between the dots x coordinates The dot indicates a number Horizontal and vertical coordinates always come in pairs and are sequential That means first x1 then y1 then x2 followed by y2 et cetera y coordinates See x coordinates bounding box Indicates the largest enclosing rectangle around a object A bounding box always has exactly 4 coordinates which are sequential Id est b1 b2 b3 and b4 text Contains the text string text length This token was included to allow the user to specify brackets in the text string tx tag without difficult processing in the source code This tags is always used in combination with the tx tag and always should come before the tx tag text alignment Is a string of length two This first character represents the horizontal alignment the second character repre
52. imited functionality only still some object types left to do Preferences now separated into various categories using tabs Faster anti aliasing implemented still too slow for usage during drawing Can be automatically enabled see preferences Correction on NT detection which was incorrect m improvements on dashed and dotted lines W Fixed errors when zooming out ruler not correct The twentyeight CTAN release Build 3226 has the following improvements m Some object which cannot be drawn in PGF mode like splines where converted incorrectly The twentyseventh CTAN release Build 3198 has the following improvements Lines were not drawn after opening a saved drawing thanks to Ales Pavelka for reporting Rulers now also zoom when canvas is zoomed Improved Ipx2tex plugin logging Pre and post amble possibility added Fixed bug when undo is done during drawing of objects reported by Matthias Haselberger Number of free objects to draw before having to register increased from 25 to 100 The twentysixth CTAN release Build 3153 has the following improvements m Rulers are now scrollable with middle mouse button m Saving converted file with save gave errors m Added support for Ipx2tex of Adhi Hargo See utils in the main menu The twentyfifth CTAN release Build 3085 has the following improvements m When opening saving or merging a file the Select File or Specify File will no longer be shown to prevent confusions amo
53. int of view it is advised to create who subdirectories in the directory where your text files tex are in m files Here all the source files for will be put in extensions 1px m pic Here all the files converted into ATEX code will be put in extensions eepic or pgf The given subdirectories iles and pic are just examples and may have any other name By using this directory structure the BIEN source files are strictly separated from the external files which are referenced by the ATEX source code An example directory structure is files drawingl lpx drawing2 lpx pic drawingl eepic drawing2 pgf chapterl tex chapter2 tex appendixl tex maindoc tex In this example drawingl eepic might be used in chapterl tex and is referenced there by see chapter 1 10 LaTeXPiX pic drawingl eepic The script file is present in the files drawingl lpx file Important Notes For WinEdt Users The WinEdt program is able to erase working files from your current working environment The current working environment equals the directory where your source files with extension tex are in By default ATEX also creates files with a eepic or pgf extension used for creating the table of contents If you put the converted amp XP iX files in your current working environment these might will get deleted by certain WinEdt versions when doing a clean up of your working environment So please follow the advised way of working wit
54. ion of several kinds of graphics that are commonly used on mathematical typesetting One of them is of course 1 5 DVIPDFM The dvipdfm package is a DVI to PDF conversion utility named after its creator Marc Wicks It has the following features m Support for outline entries in PDF also called bookmarks and annotations including hyperlinks forms and widgets Nearly every Acrobat Distiller pdfmark is approximated m Support for standard DVI specials such as HyperTeX HTML TPIC color specials PSfile and other PostScript specials m Native support for inclusion of MetaPost output and inclusion of arbitrary PostScript files with help from an external program Support for PDF thumbnails with a little help from GhostScript to generate the thumbnails Ability to include JPEG and PNG bitmapped images as encapsulated objects Support for partial font embedding and Flate compression to reduce file size Support for font re encoding to work around encodings that arent fully supported by the Acrobat suite of products Ftcetera To use dvipdfm as your DVI to PDF translator allowing inclusion of JPEG and PNG images you have to include the option documentclass dvipdfm to your document For more information see the dvipdfm user manual 2 1 6 PGF PGF is a drawing package made by Till Tantau PGF stands for Portable Graphics Format It is a TEXmacro package that allows creation of graphics using a special pgfpicture environment and
55. irectory of WinEdt when asked For WinEdt 5 3 and higher installation should go fully automatically WinEdt doesn t have to be running if no session is found La leXPiX will open WinEdt for you Note that when you get dialog messages after starting your WinEdt sessions e g a dialog that reminds you to register your WinEdt copy the installation will fail In such cases you should start WinEdt before doing the installation in La and click away the WinEdt dialogs 4 6 OpenFile There are several ways to open a La leXPiX file Ipx m Z User Interface Use File Open and a file dialog will appear allowing you to browse to the file you want to open m Explorer When you have associated Ipx files you can open a file by starting it from explorer Explorer will see that the extension is and will open TeXPiX accordingly When a 1eXPiX is already open it will ask if the file you ve started from explorer must be loaded m Drag amp Drop From explorer is it also possible to drag the Ipx file to an open La leXPiX session The dropped file will be opened Again it will be asked if you want to open the dragged file when a file is already open 28 December 2009 van Beurden 4 File Handling 21 4 7 SaveFile Ed The first time you save a file you will be asked to specify a name for the file After the first saving a so called quick save will be done to the filename you specified To quick save you can select File S
56. ithin the script used to store the objects in the drawings So when you open a drawing made with an older release of it could happen that the script has to be converted to meet the requirements of the newer release you are working with The conversion to a newer script version should occur automatically but the command is offered for completeness The shortcut key is 5 14 Search amp Delete Redundant Objects It could happen that certain object you have drawn with are obsolete For example when two objects with exactly the same properties are placed exactly over each other they are not visible These redundant object can be deleted by selecting Edit Search amp Delete Redundant Objects 5 15 Advanced Polygon Spline Handling Closed polygon or spline objects can be opened vice versa by selecting a single polygon spline and pressing the Backspace key Also when having selected a single polygon or spline object points can be deleted by selecting the appropriate corner and pressing CTRL DEL 5 16 Previewing To be able to observe the early results of your drawing you can preview it in two forms DVI or PDF The DVI previewing could be done in packages like YAP WinDVI et cetera PDF documents can best be viewed in Adobe Acrobat Reader When viewing a processed file with a DVI viewer colours may not appear rotated text may stay non rotated shaded objects may not be filled with the applied gray scale etcetera
57. ix m LaTeD A drawing program working in MS DOS http www ctan org tex archive systems msdos lated These are all great programs but none of the programs offer all the functionality and personally wanted Some functions missed in several programs were m Colour support on objects like rectangles squares ellipses circles polygons dots text et cetera Shaded filled with different grey scales and colour filled objects Bold and italic texts Inclusion of images JPEG and PNG Arrows in any direction with different arrowheads possible instead of the restricted vector command in standard TEX m Elliptical arcs instead of just circular arcs m Splines m Support for many output languages as EEPICS PGF and PSTRICKS So started writing iX to create a program unfortunately only working under Windows sorry to all Linux lovers to have all the functionality of these programs combined in one single executable Acknowledgements Without the help of several persons would not have been as it is now N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 IV Preface m Thanks for your addition support and tips m Ignacio Pefiarrocha Alos Thanks for the tips m Jaime Quintanilla Benavente Thanks for the Spanish translations of the main menu m Robert Rutten Thanks for giving me tips and detecting numerous bugs and doing good beta testing m Joseph Hilferty For the Catalan and extended Spanish translations m Charles B Cam
58. l Priemer 234 Nico Feiertag 235 Pierre Leroy 236 Marko Drager 237 Farooq Azam 238 Miko Csilla Borbala 239 Jaime Ide 240 Benoit Chevallier Mames 241 Swatdipisal Khatathap 242 Roman Zeit 243 Sungpyo Hong 244 Sotirios D Hassapis 245 Andrei 246 Marc Augier 247 Daniel Hawellek 248 Marc Wendisch 249 Andrea Sorbi 250 Ted Kok 251 Christophe Tartary 252 Jeffrey Olson 253 Yannick Pannier 254 Liu Huikan 255 Henrik Sandler 256 Josep Magell 257 Keith E Mellinger 258 Winfried Recknagel 259 Aidan Sims 260 Dinesh J Karia 261 Derek Collis 262 Yazan Hussain 263 Anthony Gerard 264 Umar Mwidu 265 Tusiime Swaleh 266 Zara Field 267 John M Kihoro 268 Michael K Nganda 269 Yunjiang Jiang 270 Victor Romanenko 271 Helge R tz 272 Sebastian Wasiuta 273 Paul Walker 274 Guillermo Montes 275 Ulysses Sodr 276 Antoni Lesniewski 277 Marc Meise 278 G nther Lang 279 Michael Zhukov 280 Arjen Mulder 281 Jose Victor Rios Rull 282 Raphael Ruppel 283 Jerald Harris 284 Jos Soeiro de Carvalho Table B 4 Registered users part four 28 December 2009 N J H M van Beurden Appendix B Registered Users 61 Register Name Register Name 285 Kris Smolders 286 Jac Romme 287 Art Bleukx 288 Jens Strabo Hummelshoj 289 Sido Jensma 290 Cristina Vila 291 Sunil M Pande 292 Tim Christoffel 293 Stephan Gaschler 294 Antonio Jos Ocafia
59. l again be offered the possibility the initiate another object of the currently selected type If you want to cancel the drawing or want to start drawing an object of a different type you have to press the right mouse button of the ESC key When doing this X will automatically be set to the edit mode 5 3 Selecting Grouping Objects You can select a single object by clicking within its bounding box For every object you initiate an enclosing rectangle is calculated If you are in edit mode and the left mouse click falls within this bounding box the object is selected If the left mouse click falls into the area of multiple object then PIX will calculate which object is the closest to where you have clicked It will be visualised if an object is selected by painting the object surrounding red N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 24 5 Object Handling The object selection can be extended be grouped by holding down the ct x1 whilst selecting the object with your left mouse button click If an object is already within the selected group and the left mouse button is clicked it will be removed from the group again Grouping is also possible by holding down the shift key and dragging a rectangle around the objects you want to select When the left mouse button is then released whilst still holding the shift key all the objects within the created rectangle will become selected During the selection of multiple objects you can see the selection
60. lease has the following improvements Oval radius is now editable 28 December 2009 N J H M van Beurden 9 History List amp Known Bugs 47 So called instances can now be saved and loaded again They act like grouped objects A number of objects can be saved to an instance file and be inserted as a grouped single object in your drawings E g a complete two input AND gate can be drawn once saved to a instance file and be inserted a lot of times to create a logic scheme Added some preferences Inclusion of bitmap bmp images is not possible anymore for it is not fully supported by BIEN Improvements made on arc drawing and conversion Framebox text rotation can now be specified within a range of 360 360 Movement resizing and drawing of objects now by default snaps to grid by holding the shift key you can move resize and draw freely without snapping Webupdate checker implemented When a newer version is found on the CTAN server it asks if you want to be redirected Major improvements and additions made to the manual It is not finished yet but a lot better and clearer than the previous releases Language editor added again If you feel like translating into your language please help me See the manual for details Bolditalic texts are possible The seventh CTAN bugfix release has the following improvements Bug when opening number of Bezier points form and then do further drawing The seventh CTAN release ha
61. les Ovals Dots Normal Text FrameBox Text Images Chapter 3 Drawing possibilities 3 1 3 2 3 3 3 4 3 5 Coordinates Colour Shade Arrowheads Line Options Chapter 4 File Handling 4 1 4 2 4 3 4 4 4 5 File Extensions Advised Way Of Working File Associations Shortcut Creation WinEdt Additions N J H M van Beurden ON O O Q tal N a a sch XO OO OO NN ml lE l sch sch ND ND ND GO O 15 15 15 16 17 17 19 19 19 20 20 20 28 December 2009 VI 4 6 Open File 4 7 Save File 4 8 Merge Files 4 9 Converting To LaTeX 4 10 Saving Log File 4 11 Exception Handling Chapter 5 Object Handling 5 1 Draw Mode Edit Mode 5 2 Drawing Objects 5 3 Selecting Grouping Objects 5 4 Moving Objects 5 5 Resizing Objects 5 6 Copying Objects To Clipboard 5 7 Pasting Objects From Clipboard 5 8 Duplicating Objects 5 9 Deleting Objects 5 10 Rotating Objects 5 11 Sending Object To Front Back 5 12 Redraw All Objects 5 13 Recompile LaTeXPiX script 5 14 Search amp Delete Redundant Objects 5 15 Advanced Polygon Spline Handling 5 16 Previewing Chapter 6 Configuration 6 1 Set Local Unitlength 6 2 LaTeXPiX GUI Fonts 6 3 Preferences Chapter 7 Future Development Chapter 8 Registering LaTeXPiX amp Language Translations 8 1 Requesting A Registration Key 8 2 Updates amp Registry Keys 8 3 Language Translations 8 4 Registered Users
62. line Figure 2 1 shows a few examples of possible lines Figure 2 1 X lines test 2 2 Vectors T Vectors cannot have just any direction like lines have Figure 2 2 shows all possible directions of a vector when bounded by a rectangle will automatically indicate wether a vector can be drawn or not so please stick to the vector placement indicators Vectors can also only be drawn in solid line mode You may use arrows instead of vectors to be able to draw any possible slope with different arrowhead possibilities es Figure 2 2 vectors test 2 3 Arrows Z Arrows can have any direction vectors cannot have any slope and therefore offer big benefits over vectors The arrow drawing is customary made by the author and is not part of the standard ATEX drawing commands An arrowhead is drawn by putting a polygon with the shape of an arrow at the end of a line Arrows can be solid dotted or dashed but the arrowhead remains solid Figure 2 3 shows some possibilities of the arrow object N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 8 2 Available Objects ded AA AE en DE DIONE SSS Y Sij Ve n Wr KA gt SAN NAAN AAA VIANO aan AU v v x 3 w gt koi lt K a2 4 MESSE EI 4a cz Figure 2 3 2 leXPiX arrow test 2 4 Bezier Curves The Bezier curves you can draw have a starting and an ending point together wi
63. n of iX drawing is newcommand LaTeXPix 3 begin figure ht begin center input 1 caption 2 3 end center end figure The vspace command can add extra vertical space to the top and the bottom of the figure Assuming that you have named your output file Latexpix eepic you can put this file into BIEN by typing NLaTeXPiX latexpix eepic This is an example of a picture created by LaTeXPiX Nlabel fig LaTeXPiX example 1 11 Menus amp Keyboard Shortcuts The most commonly used commands within PiX have got keyboard shortcuts A listing of these shortcuts can be found in Appendix A But you can also use the main menu to navigate through the supplied commands 1 12 Uninstalling It is best to remove the complete UX software except for possible created shortcuts via the standard Windows Installer tool Before uninstalling will be closed Note that your lt settings as well as your registration key when you are a registered user that is will not be removed 28 December 2009 van Beurden 2 Available Objects 7 Chapter 2 Available Objects This chapter will give an outline of all the possible shapes also called objects within Example figures are given for each object 2 4 Lines Z Lines can be drawn in any direction with several colours widths and line style options solid dotted dashed You are asked to specify two points being the starting point and the end point of the
64. n inserting and modifying images files in This makes the usage of the external ebb exe tool obsolete W Use User Fonts For GUI When selected the font chosen in the GUI Font menu is actually used Please see section 6 2 for more information When setting this option from off to on the user defined GUI fonts are applied immediately But when setting this option from on to off a restart of iX is needed in order to use the original Windows font m Check For An Update Upon Startup A check for an more up to date version of iX will be performed when this option is set on If off only manual checking of possible program updates is possible m Log Actions This options allows the program to keep track of internal messages as displayed in the statusbar All these messages can later be saved to file for program debug purposes m Alpha Blending NT Only The transparency of the entire application can be set by shifting the bar When no transparency at all is wanted uncheck the alpha blending box to speed up the drawing process Note that transparency can only be set for NT based operating systems like Windows NT 2000 XP N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 34 6 Configuration 28 December 2009 N J H M van Beurden 7 Future Development 35 Chapter 7 Future Development The following items are still under development are not implemented in Import functionality to process EEPIC and PGF code into More ruler support Show currentl
65. ngst users Suggested by Adhi Hargo m Reduced redrawing in selection mode N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 42 9 History List amp Known Bugs Corrected invalid behaviour when using the program in non administrator environments Thanks to Adhi Hargo for reporting the invalid behaviour Added option to deselect all objects as proposed by Adhi Hargo Removed object information bug found by Adhi Hargo When exception is raised an email with debugging information can now be sent Finished zooming functionality If you find a bug please report to the author Objects are converted to memo before viewing In the old situation only the saved objects were shown when viewing the objects Mind that this is still the case for the converted objects viewing the actual code that is generated from the objects First you have to convert the objects and only then you are able to view what has been converted this is for registration reasons Minor changes to the GUI Editing a coordinate when multiple coordinates are selected gave an exception Reported by Adhi Hargo Handling of invalid input of the coordinate editor Removed instance related items from the preferences menu When program update is available the actual update message is shown Code optimisations and executable reduction The twentyfourth CTAN release Build 2786 has the following improvements Spline drawing improved Number of spline points reduced from 500 to 200 for
66. of the text for processing Separation for dotted and dashed lines can now be specified The third CTAN release has the following improvements Some colordvi sty versions caused the drawings made with iX to be shifted This was corrected now colordvi sty is no longer needed as one of the standard style files you have to include Included build number in about box to be more precise about your current version Some vector and arrow related things went wrong Drawing canvas is now sizeable movable and can be set to full screen Also the snap to grid did not work correctly in previous releases when changing grid distance 28 December 2009 van Beurden 9 History List amp Known Bugs 49 Radically improved resizing of object points Optimised moving of single object Added an adjustable hold time preventing unwanted movement of selected objects During a certain amount of time the object will not move after a mousedown Directories for load save and convert can now be stored using the preference menu They will be used as default directories every time PIX is restarted and no directory has yet been specified Better rotation support for framebox text Removed rotation option for plain text Now rotation sty will be used instead of the rotate sty which was used in previous versions of Replaced all hacked version of the style files by their original versions So now you may choose to include your style file from your ATEX
67. on Request Number to Register and changed register procedure to name and key only no registry file will be sent anymore Stripped ebb exe from the style installer Version 1 1 of latexpix sty now in the style installer changed legal information Object resizing with fixed aspect ratio went had a bug Undo data now created when moving or resizing objects Also the program could crash when an object is selected and undone Browsing through object shortcut key moved from CTRL 5 to CTRL TAB The nineteenth CTAN Build 2452 release has the following improvements Zoom functionality started use and keys Selecting moving resizing and drawing objects in zoomed position is possible Open close polygon spline worked also on other objects causing strange behaviour N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 44 9 History List amp Known Bugs Offset of horizontal and vertical scrollbars caused wrong preview markers when moving splines Logfile automatically saved on exit or exception when logging is put on in the preferences menu Program hanged when text form is closed by pressing the close window icon on the form Added quick editing for ovals Strange resize boxes appearing bug reported by Robert Rutten Line number visible on viewer for script and converted files Changed coordinates via edit coordinates were not shown and screen was not refreshed Bug reported by Steven Harrod m Opening preview log file had some bugs
68. on for all colours m Removed several bugs thanks to Robert Rutten in the text editor form and added information label here m Hopefully fixed the looping automatic upgrading The thirteenth CTAN release Build 1423 has the following improvements m Multi line framebox text is now possible though actual line breaking is not applied in PIX instead the line break is indicated with a symbol m Registration information can now be entered by hand The twelfth CTAN release has the following improvements W Fixed bug in text editor When pressing backspace during typing of the text lt crashed m WinEdt tool bar button and main menu addition for La TeXPiX is now offered W Fixed bug in the automatic check for updates when starting PIX This can be set off the preferences menu but even when off an check was always done The eleventh CTAN release Build 1284 has the following improvements Possibility added to delete points from polygons and splines Preview files can now be deleted from the main menu Drawing of new objects is now done without dotted lines improving visibility Circular arcs are now available The tenth CTAN bugfix 2 release Build 1234 has the following improvements m After resizing drawing of new objects was performed incorrectly Removed this major bug m Added message when trying to open two instances of 4 N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 46 9 History List amp Known Bugs The tenth CTAN bugfi
69. on which is compatible with LaTeXPiX you will have to install this style file from the Style File Installer W eepic sty Extra extended picture environment style file This package also has several different versions lt is recommended to install this package from the Style File Installer to be sure that you are working with the correct version Dependent style files are m bez123 sty and multiply sty or ebezier sty and calc sty Bezier curve style files You only have to include one of these pairs of style files if you use any Bezier curves in your drawing s Both ebezier and bez123 packages should work properly you can choose between one of them without any benefits are drawbacks m curves sty Style file for drawing curves used here to draw arcs You only have to include this style file when you have used circular or elliptical arcs in your drawing Mind that the eepic sty package is capable of producing circular arcs but when converting these from DVI to PDF with the dvipdfm tool the conversion fails sometimes Therefore it was chosen to use the curves sty package for drawing both circular and elliptical arcs Mind that you have to use the modified version of this package to be installed from the La TeXPiX Style File Installer and not the original package as supplied with your ATEX environment The arc command is defined in both the eepic sty and the unmodified curves sty package This causes an error when compiling your document to
70. osave possibility with an adjustable interval which can be specified in the preferences menu Removed some bugs for square and circle saving and converting m When setting line options colour arrowhead or grayscale generally these settings were not always correct anymore after editing an object m Arrows couldn t be resized properly at their arrowhead side Also when arrows were resized and moved the arrowhead did not move along m Multiple selected objects weren t deleted properly m Italic and bold texts in frameboxes weren t shown when converting to LaTeX because of an error in the rotation command for frameboxes iX is brought top of all windows when lpx file is clicked Also the loaded filename will now always will bear the long filename verylongfilename lpx and not the short filename verylo 1 lpx like was the case m Standard directories for load save and convert can now be chosen from the preferences menu see button to the right of the directory edit m Sometimes the clipping rectangle was maintained even after la leXPiX was closed or when not in drawing mode This bug was corrected m General interspace for dotted and dashed lines can now be specified Interspace per object will be implemented later m Added some arrow styles m When text was entered containing brackets or an error was present because the e script file also uses brackets This was solved by adding a script file parameter containing the length
71. r you have browsed to the final point position Figure 2 9 La TeXPiX polygon test 2 9 Splines SENA spline is a curves that goes through a number of specified points and which can be filled with a certain colour when the figure is ceiled Figure 2 10 shows some possible splines The number of points in a spline is limited when the limit is reached leXPiX will automatically close the spline and create the object When you want to close the spline you can do this by 1 Mark the last point at the exact position of the starting point 2 Press the BackSpace key La TeXPiX will then automatically close the object for you To keep the spline open press CTRL BackSpace after you have browsed to the final point position Figure 2 10 La TeXPiX spline test 2 10 Ellipses See Ellipses can be drawn in different styles as indicated in figure 2 11 When you draw a coloured ellipse you will not get a border Circles can also be drawn in ellipse mode Mind that shaded and colour filled ellipses cannot be drawn when the line style is dotted or dashed 28 December 2009 van Beurden 2 Available Objects 11 0 Figure 2 11 La ellipses test 2 11 Circles The same rules as for ellipses apply here But circles have the same horizontal and vertical diameter Figure 2 12 shows some possible circles Figure 2 12 TeXPiX circles test 2 12 Ovals Ovals are rectangular boxes with rounded corners The same rules
72. s text polygons Bezier curves and so on The drawings can be generated by writing flat ATEX code using low level commands like Vellipse path etc Creating drawings by writing flat code can be quite hard and time consuming Moreover it is not very interactive as the resulting drawing can only be viewed after compilation of the written code Therefore several programs provide the possibility to create drawings in a visual way Using a user interface these programs show a preview of the actual drawing and create the ATEX code for you Some of the available drawing programs are m XFig A very popular program working under UNIX JFig Works under all operating systems supporting JAVA http tech www informatik uni hamburg de applets jfig m JPicEdt Very complete editor which also works under all operating systems supporting JAVA http jpicedt sourceforge net m LaTeXCAD Program written by John Leis which works under Windows The program is very popular but has some limitations e g there is no colour support m TexCad32 A Windows version made by Peter Furlan of the very popular MS DOS program Has a lot of limitations but is still under development m OFig Works under MS DOS and there are also Windows versions available but this program offers very few possibilities The development has ended a long time ago m WinTpic A program by Masashi Horii that works very well for simple drawings m LaTeXDraw Works in un
73. s the following improvements Changes in the dot separation are now made visible Overwrite prompt for conversion to file is removed Added links to webpage and email address in about form Now it is possible to specify and edit the number of points used for Bezier curves Changed some keyboard shortcut keys Added some icons to the drawpanel Text and framebox settings can be changed for multiple selected objects Removed some bugs when using drawpanel new file ALT key rotate object deletion of objects bitmap conversion The sixth CTAN release has the following improvements Language files and manual source file no longer shipped if you want to receive these files contact me Small visual bug removed when drawing ovals There was a bug in the movement of dots Major bugs removed involving object editing Shade level procedure changed therefore a new script version was needed Objects are removed from the group when they are selected and already in the group Dotted plain ellipses circles oval and arcs were possible This is not the case for BIEN thus restrictions were built for When selecting a language in the preference form it is now applied immediately In the older versions you first had to select the language and close the preferences form to apply the settings Now you can read the settings in your own language without having to reopen the preferences form Improved arc drawing though not completely correct
74. sent the vertical alignment Possible character values are left r right or c center text rotation Indicates the rotation of the text in degrees Ranges from 0 to 359 degrees polygon number Represents the number of points a polygon contains font style Can be one of the following fSNORMAL fsBOLD fsITALIC fSBOLDITALIC shade intensity When drawing shaded objects the intensity of the gray scale is indicated between a value of 0 fully white and 100 fully black image name Indicated the absolute path to the included image file image width Represents the width in unitlengths of the inserted image image height Represents the height in unitlengths of the inserted image arrow style Holds the arrow style as chosen from different predefined styles The style is a integer number oval radius 28 December 2009 van Beurden About The Author 65 About The Author N J H M van Beurden lives in Tilburg the Netherlands In 1999 he got a Bachelor B degree in Electronic amp Electrical Engineering from Fontys Hogescholen Eindhoven and in 2003 he got a Master of Science M Sc degree in Electronic amp Electrical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology Currently he is working at NXP Semiconductors in the Netherlands as a Integrated Circuit Design Engineer N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 66 About The Author 28 December 2009 N J H M van Beurden List Of Figur
75. special macros for drawing lines curves rectangles and many other kinds of graphic objects Its usage closely resembles the pstricks package or the normal picture environment of The support for PGF in PIX is very basic and only supported until version 0 65 of After that version the entire PGF system including commands were changed For now there is no support for PGF versions which came after version 0 65 i e versions 0 95 and higher are not supported However the idea is to offer the possibility to draw and convert the same objects as in EEPIC 1 7 Important Notes For Windows 95 98 ME Users If you do not have a NT operating system some graphical functions cannot be used within During the first run of the program a warning will be given about this Users of the Microsoft Windows 95 98 and ME operating system cannot see dot dash separation in XPiX However proper conversion to ATEX code is performed 2See 3 for the user guide of PGF N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 4 1 Introduction 1 8 Target The purpose of is to be able to create drawings for ATEX with aid of an easy to use user interface The drawing can be converted to ATEX code which represent eepic pgf or pstrick commands To this aim eX PUX uses a script file with extension 1px to represent objects that were drawn The converted code can be written to a file with extensions eepic pgf or pstricks which can be included in the ATEX docum
76. style file as shipped with your standard environment as it might crash Figure 2 6 shows some examples of arcs Figure 2 6 a TeXPiX arcs test 2 6 Rectangles JP Bil Rectangles can be drawn in different styles as indicated in figure 2 7 When you draw a colour filled rectangle you will not get a border When drawing a plain rectangle or a shaded rectangle this will be done Squares can also be drawn in rectangle mode Mind that shaded and colour filled rectangles cannot be drawn when the line style is dotted or dashed Figure 2 7 2 leXPiX rectangles test 2 7 Squares O El Bl The same rules as for rectangles apply here But squares have the same horizontal and vertical length Figure 2 8 shows some possible squares Figure 2 8 LaTeXPiX squares test 2 8 Polygons GE Un polygon is a set of interconnected lines which can be filled with a certain colour when the figure is ceiled Figure 2 9 shows some possible polygons The number of lines in a polygon is limited when the limit is reached La will automatically close the polygon and create the object When you want to close the polygon you can do this by van Beurden 28 December 2009 10 2 Available Objects 1 Mark the last point at the exact position of the starting point 2 Press the BackSpace key LaTeXPiX will then automatically close the object for you To keep the polygon open often called a polyline press CTRL BackSpace afte
77. t on the number The old registration keys still work but will be phased out in half a year Registered users will have to re register with the newly generation request number Setup program renamed from Ipixbeta exe to Ipxsetup exe Also the update file has changed from Ipixbeta updateinfo to Ipxsetup updateinfo 28 December 2009 N J H M van Beurden 9 History List amp Known Bugs 43 Solved a lot of zooming issues but please mind that the zooming functionality still isn t finished When zooming in double magnification was done this is corrected Zooming with panning possibility added Zoom factor till 16 times was 10 times When zooming the gridline was not zoomed dotted grid was incorrect drawing dots was incorrect drawing objects was incorrect when scrollbars had offset When editing a single plain text object this was seen as a multiselect edit of the text Bug found by Paul Klein Unitlength specification can now be done in more types of units i e mm cm in pc pt Improvement suggestion made by Edward Fondis In PGF mode the spline drawing possibility was offered whilst this in not possible Carriage return not processed during Plain Framebox and Plain Text Bug found by Jens Linden X log file viewing moved to main menu group view Long single lines in the text editor were causing invalid line breaks Now long single lines are possible Problem was found by Paul Klein Bezier thickness not taken into account in EEPIC mode pr
78. t want certain in messages and confirmations to appear then you can remove these here m Ask Save When active a message will appear asking if you want to save the current file before exiting La This question will only appear when a new drawing hasn t been saved yet or when a file has been modified but the modification haven t been saved yet m Confirm Delete Object When active it asks for confirmation when deleting an object or a group of selected objects m Confirm Make New File When active it asks for confirmation when the action has been chosen to create a new file deleting the current drawing m Confirm Exit PiX When active you are asked if you are sure to exit 28 December 2009 van Beurden 6 Configuration 33 m Confirm Overwrite Converted File When a eXPiX drawing is converted into code and saved to file you are able to specify the output name of converted code file Once the code file exists and this option is set to active you will be asked if you want to overwrite the file each time you save the converted file This overwrite prompt can be set off be setting this option to non active m Autocreate Image bb File Images need a so called bounding box file bb file to indicated their dimensions in ATEX These file can be generated by the standard packages ebb exe which is shipped with the dvit opdfm packages Alternatively these bounding box files can be automatically generated and updated whe
79. th two control points Figure 2 4 shows some example Bezier curves Figure 2 4 a 1e XP iX bezier test The number of points used to draw the Bezier curve can be specified and edited for each individual Bezier object It is impossible to draw Bezier curves that have dotted and dashed lines It is however possible to obtain quasi dotted Bezier curves by specifying a relatively low amount of points Note that the inter dot distance is not constant for Bezier curves when you want quasi dotted Bezier curves Figure 2 5 shows the Bezier Options form Bezier Options EI Number of Bezier points 500 Ok Figure 2 5 Bezier options form 2 5 Elliptical amp Circular Arcs Elliptical arc support is probably one of the most enhanced features of La TeXPiX which is not present in the eepic sty package In the eepic sty package only circular arcs are offered but these are not to be used following the eepic documentation for incompatibility reasons Therefore for both circular and elliptical arcs the package curves sty has to be used You have to include the curves sty file which is shipped with La TeXPiX to be installed via the Style File Installer when you want to convert elliptical arcs properly 28 December 2009 N J H M van Beurden 2 Available Objects 9 Some modifications to the original file were done to get things working So arcs can only be converted to ATEX when the modified version is use do not use the original
80. tter rotation support on all applicable objects Please tell me if you miss any points of improvement in the list or if you have good ideas about new items N J H M van Beurden 28 December 2009 36 7 Future Development 28 December 2009 N J H M van Beurden 8 Registering LaTeXPiX amp Language Translations 37 Chapter 8 Registering LaTeXPiX amp Language Translations LaTeXPiX can be registered for free This chapter shows you how to do this 8 1 Requesting A Registration Key LaleXPUX can be registered for free for non commercial use by sending me an email with some information specified later on You will then receive registration information via email If you want to buy LaTeX PUX for commercial purposes or want to financially support the LaTeXPiX project please contact me Note that all of the functions within LaleXPiX can be used in a non registered version but when not registered the number of objects in your drawing that you can convert to is limited When registering this limitation is removed and you can convert an unlimited number of objects The registration number can be found under Help Register of the main menu The screen that should appear containing the required number is shown in figure 8 1 Request ID 57313178 Register LaT ech Figure 8 1 Key Generator window You need to send an email containing the following fields please fill in everything carefully Required information
81. urden 69 55 57 58 59 60 61 62 28 December 2009 70 List Of Tables 28 December 2009 N J H M van Beurden Index Index A arcs circular elliptical arrowheads arrows B Bezier curves C circles colour commands convert to BIEN coordinates D dots draw mode drawing objects dvipdfm E edit mode eepic ellipses epic exception handling F file associations file extensions files merging opening saving G grouping objects GUI font H history list images K N J H M van Beurden 11 15 21 15 12 23 23 23 10 21 20 19 21 20 21 23 29 41 14 known bugs L language translations line options lines local unitlength log file objects copying to clipboard delete all redundant deleting duplicating move pasting from clipboard redraw all resize rotating send to front back ovals P pgf polygons drawing editing preferences previewing pstricks R recompile LaTeXPiX script rectangles registering S selecting objects shade shortcuts splines drawing editing squares sty files system requirements 71 41 38 17 29 21 25 26 25 25 24 25 26 24 25 25 11 26 30 26 26 37 23 16 20 26 28 December 2009 72 text framebox plain uninstalling user interface vectors way of working win 95 98 ME notes WinEdt additions 28 December 2009 12 12
82. x 1 release has the following improvements Number of possible polygon spline points was said to be increased to 50 but in fact only 10 points were possible Removed this bug Webupdate hung because it wants to be on top always m Added automatic update check when starting up the program This option can be set on or off in the preferences menu Removed tips from the help menu Added a small section about GUI fonts in the manual The tenth CTAN release has the following improvements Open polygons and splines are now possible by pressing CTRL BkSp when last point position has been chosen Pressing BkSp closes the polygon spline Bug fixes in the drawing engine Bug fixes in the check if objects are not fully visible or invisible within the canvas area The ninth CTAN release has the following improvements New procedure for drawing and resizing squares and circles which is much more easy to use Bug fix in the text editor form when entering text with and T Now shows the bounding box of inserted images instead of the image itself during preview First last point of closed polygons and spline could not be selected Number of polygon spline points increased to 50 Bug fix in arc conversion ATEX even crashed when converting or previewing A grayscale of 100 percent resulted into a filling of the object with the border colour This way corrected by setting the grayscale to 99 percent when converting to ATEX code m Added Polis
83. y of your source document to keep a better overview This relative image path can be specified here m Save Load Convert Directories These are the currently selected directories for the different file loading and saving dialogs To be able to start with these shown directories in an new session will always goto these directories They will be automatically modified if you goto a new directory when loading saving or converting a file m Autosave The La leXPiX script file can be saved automatically when checking the autosave box The file will will be automatically stored every specified interval The time between two saves is given in minutes m Minimise To Tray Check this box if you want PiX to minimise to tray instead of normal minimisation to the taskbar m Generate bak Files When saving your files a backup is created of the old saved file when this setting is on The old saved file will have a default bak extension and can be restored again via the file menu File Restore old saved file bak Show Image Names When images are inserted the location of the image file on the hard disk can be displayed m Use Dotted Grid If you want to have a dotted grid instead of a grid consisting of lines you should check this option But note that dotted grids take a bit longer to draw on the canvas thus slowing down the drawing procedure m Confirmation Options Several settings can be made concerning messages and confirmations H you do no
84. y selected arrow style in arrow form or toolbar in a more advanced way Advanced editing of coordinates Full support for PGF package Save window position and restore this position at startup Arcs and Bezier curves with arrows at the end Including images other than JPEG and PNG like WMF and PostScript Ability to fill rectangles circles polygons et cetera with some pattern like horizontal lines vertical lines diagonal lines and so on Filling FrameBox with a colour and when this is implemented separate the text colour from the FrameBox fill colour as a parameter Automatic line wrapping following framebox boundaries Addition of fancy boxes as implemented in the fancybox sty package Grouping of objects Interface to YAP When clicking on an drawing within YAP the drawing should be opened in More advanced interface with WinEdt When starting from explorer set the conversion directory to the directory where you executed the file instead of the specified directory or standard iX directory when no specified directory is set Allow relative paths when including images and instances Now full paths to the image or instance files has to be specified When using relative paths the current directory of the file is taken and concatenated with the relative path to find the origin of the image file Proper formula for spline drawing while there is still a small discrepancy between the IX view of the splines and the resulting DVI output Be

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