TransFig 2.1.8 is available on ftp.x.org in 
/contrib/R5fixes/transfig-patches/transfig.2.1.8.tar.Z.
Be sure to set binary mode when transferring.

There is also an incremental patch file to convert from 2.1.7 to 2.1.8.  This
is in the file /contrib/R5fixes/transfig-patches/2.1.7.to.2.1.8.Z.  You may use
the 'patch' program to automatically apply the changes to your 2.1.7 release.
It is compressed so you must uncompress it first.

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.  In previous releases,
this command was implemented as a shell script.

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.

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.

- Brian V. Smith
- Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

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Transfig version 2.1.8 (Oct 1, 1993)
Changes from 2.1.7:

New Features:

Bugs fixed:

o thick line threshold increased from 1 to 2 for latex lines
o save/restore wraps EPS objects now
o specifing nonexistant font with -f caused coredump
	from Gordon W. Ross (gwr@jericho.mc.com)
o newpath command given before EPS object for PostScript output
o moved definition of SetFigFont to better place 
	from Bernd Raichle (raichle@isr.uni-stuttgart.de)
o #included sys/types for BSD4_3 systems in genps.c 
o bug in eepic output - SetFigFont was being defined inside a \put
	from Vivek Khera (khera@cs.duke.edu)
o BoundingBox for EPS objects can be floating values
o shortened file name (fig2dev/dev/)def_setfigfont.c to setfigfont.c
o distribution version of fig2dev/dev/Makefile had (def_)setfigfont.c
	instead of (def_)setfigfont.o in LIBOBJS definition
o SUBDIR fig2dev/dev was missing from top-level Imakefile caused problems
	where make would say something like "No rule to make target 
	dev/libtransfig.a"