tldr/pages/common/pic.md

pic

Picture preprocessor for the groff (GNU Troff) document formatting system. See also groff and 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}}