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pic — Picture preprocessor for the groff (GNU Troff) document formatting system. See also: `groff`, `troff

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Problem

How to use the pic command: Picture preprocessor for the groff (GNU Troff) document formatting system. See also: groff, troff. More information: <https://manned.org/pic>.

Solution

pic — Picture preprocessor for the groff (GNU Troff) document formatting system. See also: groff, troff. More information: <https://manned.org/pic>.

Process input with pictures, saving the output for future typesetting with groff to PostScript:
pic {{path/to/input.pic}} > {{path/to/output.roff}}


Typeset input with pictures to PDF using the [me] macro package:
pic -T {{pdf}} {{path/to/input.pic}} | groff -{{me}} -T {{pdf}} > {{path/to/output.pdf}}

Code Snippets

Process input with pictures, saving the output for future typesetting with groff to PostScript

pic {{path/to/input.pic}} > {{path/to/output.roff}}

Typeset input with pictures to PDF using the [me] macro package

pic -T {{pdf}} {{path/to/input.pic}} | groff -{{me}} -T {{pdf}} > {{path/to/output.pdf}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/pic

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