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Tools

The basic terminal of blop is blopeps. This produces a PostScript-like file, which in itself looks ugly, but is beautiful and featurerich, when included into a LaTeX document. This basic output can be converted to different formats, using the following conversion tools:

beps2eps - transform the file to an encapsulated PostScript file. This tool comes with blop, for help say beps2eps --help

beps2png - transform the file to a PNG image. For help say beps2png --help

beps2jpg - transform the file to a JPG image. For help say beps2jpg --help

beps2bmp - transform the file to a BMP image. For help say beps2bmp --help

beps2pdf - transform the file to a PDF file. For help say beps2pdf --help

beps-annotate - Annotate a previously created .beps file (put text onto the figure). For help say beps-annotate --help

bepsview - View a .beps file (first transforms it into a .eps file, and opens it with gv)
Usage: bepsview filename


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