Encapsulated PostScript Files

For any PostScript hardcopy printer that has been assigned by ASSIGN/GRAPH, MIDAS produces a so-called encapsulated PostScript file. Using a public domain macro package (e.g. Psfig/TEX) this PostScript plot file can, with a minimum of effort, be included in TEX or L^ATEX documents  L^ATEX}. To do so, in the TEX or L^ATEX document one should refer to the (possibly renamed) MIDAS PostScript file (normally pscrplot.ps). Below, follows a simple L^ATEXexample that shows how it works.
Example:

MIDAS 005> ASSIGN/GRAPH postscript
MIDAS 006> PLOT/ROW image [@100,@150:@150,@250] 20.0,20.0
MIDAS 007> OVERPLOT/TABLE table #1

In your directory we now have a PostScript file postscript.ps, containing the complete plot information written by the commands 006 and 007. Now, you can include this MIDAS PostScript file in our L^ATEX document, in this case using psfig, developed by Trevor Darrell (trevor@media.mit.edu). Here is how the L^ATEX text file with the included MIDAS plot then looks like.
Example:

  \documentstyle[11pt,psfig]{article}
   \begin{document}
    \section*{Abstract}
     We show a simple example of how one can include a PostScript figure,
     generated by MIDAS, into a existing \LaTeX document.
     \nopagebreak

     \begin{figure}[h]
      \centering{
       \hspace*{-1.cm}
       \vbox{\psfig{figure=postscript.ps,width=10cm,height=5cm}}\par
      }
     \end{figure}
   \end{document}