TransFig 3.1.2 is available on ftp.x.org in /contrib/applications/drawing_tools/transfig.
Be sure to set binary mode when transferring.

TransFig is a set of tools for creating TeX documents with graphics
which are portable, in the sense that they can be printed in a wide
variety of environments.

The transfig directory contains the source for the transfig command
which generates a Makefile which translates Fig code to various graphics
description languages using the fig2dev program.

The fig2dev directory contains a general program for translating from
Fig code to other graphics desciption languages.  The dev subdirectory
contains a library of output drivers used by fig2dev.

The xfig drawing program directly calls fig2dev to translate Fig files
to the various output languages.

Drivers currently exist for the following graphics langauges:
(E)EPIC macros, LaTeX picture environment, PIC, PiCTeX, PostScript, and TeXtyl.
Fig2dev can be configured with a subset of these drivers

I have taken over the maintenance of TransFig from Micah Beck so please send any
bug notices, fixes, contributions etc to me at bvsmith@lbl.gov.

*** You also need to get the jpeg distribution tar file from /contrib/libraries
*** if you don't already have jpeg version 5b installed on your system.

Following is a description of the CHANGES for transfig 3.1.2.

- Brian V. Smith
- Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
- I don't speak for LBL; they don't pay me enough for that.

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Version 3.1
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Patchlevel 2 (Aug 16, 1995)
Changes from patchlevel 1:

New Features:

o JPEG (JFIF) pictures objects supported for PostScript output
o %Magnification: comment added to PostScript output showing magnification
o the points of arrow heads don't protrude past the endpoints of the object

Bugs Fixed:

o the radius of arc-box corners is limited to the half of the smaller of the
	two sides of the box to avoid PostScript errors
o pstex driver incorrectly omitted postscript text in pstex output
o set_linewidth was passed double instead of int from fdraw_arrow_head
	in genepic.c
o length of dotted line dots too small for high resolution printers
o recursion bug fixed where run-time would increase exponentially with nesting
	of compound objects
o %%BeginDocument:/EndDocument now surrounds imported EPS files
o open arrowheads on arcs were overwritten by arc lines 
o bug in pattern fill code which made patterns appear solid black when
	using dvips
	Thanks to Tomas Rokicki (rokicki@CS.Stanford.EDU) for finding the fix
o line thickness wasn't adjusted for new resolution in epic, eepic, pic, tpic
	and pictex drivers
o dash length incorrect for Fig 3.x files in pic and pictex drivers
o -s option to fix text pointsize wasn't being honored
o documentation typo with regard to rigid text.  Rigid text means that the font
	size doesn't change when text is inside a compound object and that
	object is scaled in xfig.  Not used for fig2dev.
o certain machines don't handle atan2(y,0.0) so arcs with endpoints having the
	same x value were incorrectly calculated
o some machines don't calculate hypot(x,y) correctly so changed to sqrt(x*x+y*y)
	in arc_bound()
o bug in calculating BoundingBox for PostScript in compound objects
o cleared up confusion about -DNFSS and -DEPSF.  Here is the final word:

  Add -DNFSS to DEFINES list to use NFSS2 font selection for LaTeX texts
  Add -DEPSF to DEFINES list to use epsfig macros as distributed w/ LaTeX2e
 
 	Hint: Users of LaTeX2e will probably want to include both of these
 	options; users of LaTeX 2.09 will probably want to include neither.

o new tints added (fill values 21-40) for epic driver
     from Andre Eickler (eickler@db.fmi.uni-passau.de)
o pattern fill seg faulted for epic/eepic output (only PostScript has patterns)
o sanity check for font number
o font name "Modern" changed to more correct "Sans Serif" in documentation
o MetaFont driver only sent output to stdout
o version information (fig2dev -V) said "TransFig" instead of "fig2dev"
o getopt.c not needed for Solaris 2.x - #if (defined(...)) added in Imakefile
	for this
o removed duplicate #define of FALSE, TRUE and DEFAULT_FONT_SIZE in various
	drivers