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     PED(9.1)                                                 PED(9.1)

     NAME
          ped, tped - picture editor

     SYNOPSIS
          ped [ -f ] [ file ... ]

          tped [ option ... ] [ file ... ]

     DESCRIPTION
          Ped is an interactive drawing program for 5620 terminals.  A
          file argument is equivalent to an `e' command as described
          below.  Most features of ped are menu-controlled and self-
          explanatory; further details are in the reference.

          Button 1 selects actions from a permanent menu and to draw
          or pick up an object.  Button 3 terminates drawing actions
          or changes the permanent menu.  Button 2 causes the perma-
          nent menu to revert to `basic'.

          The operation of ped is split between host and terminal.
          When a file is first read, it is kept on the host; `bring
          in' gets it to the 5620.

          Option -f causes ped to display all text in one size to save
          time and space.

          Some of the actions on permanent menus (switched by button
          3) are described below.  The last action is usually remem-
          bered and may be executed repeatedly until another is
          selected.  Thus, for example, one can fill many polygons
          with one button click per polygon.  Actions marked `(t)' in
          the menu toggle on and off.

          basic menu

               blitblt Copy part of the screen to file see
                       blitblt(9.1).
               exit    Leave ped, requires a confirming push of button
                       3.
               markers Make visible the defining points of objects;
                       these are the only points sensitive to selec-
                       tion by button 1.
          type comm
               Take input from the keyboard.
               e file  Begin editing file, remember its name, as in
                       ed(1). Commands f (file name), r (read), w
                       (write), behave similarly.
               qq      Same as exit in basic menu; altered files will
                       be saved in
               cd      Change working directory.

     PED(9.1)                                                 PED(9.1)

               pwd     Print working directory.
               newline Reactivate mouse.
               u string
                       Remember string as a shell command for the
                       selection `user oper' in menu `refine.'

          ch size
               rotate  displays a vector from the center (of the
                       bounding box) of an object to the selected
                       point.  The object is rotated and scaled to
                       bring that point to a second selected position.
               h-elong Change aspect ratio.  The inverse is v-elong.

          move Button 3 cancels a move or copy.  To help untangle
               overlapping objects, the cancellation does not take
               place until returning to the basic menu.
               attach  Move an open polygon (a broken line) and hook
                       it to the end of another.
               join    Connect the ends of two polygons with a new
                       line.
               link    Cause multiple polygons to move and be filled
                       as one (useful for making holes).  Linked poly-
                       gons must all be open or all be closed.
               match   Move objects to bring selected points together.
               center  Move objects to bring their centers together.
               family/pt
                       Select objects to be moved or deleted together.

          draw Button 1 fixes a point; button 3 terminates an object.
               text    Type one or more lines terminated by an empty
                       line.
               grid    Snap points to locations on a grid, which
                       indexes through settings FMC (fine, medium,
                       coarse, none).
               fix sz  Set option -f.
               family/bx
                       Sweep a box around objects to be moved or
                       deleted together.

          reshape

               formal  Adjust nearly rectangular lines to be perfectly
                       so.
               spline  A piecewise parabolic fit tangent to the mid-
                       points of a broken line.
               corner  Make a guiding point of a spline to be multiple
                       - a corner in an otherwise smooth curve.

          refine

               adj t   Left-justify, right-justify, or center text.
               edit text

     PED(9.1)                                                 PED(9.1)

                       Display text at the top, where button 1 selects
                       a position for inserting by typing or deleting
                       by backspacing.  Button 3 concludes the edit-
                       ing.

          shade
               Assign textures for filling polygons, circles, or
               spline-bounded regions.  Curves are filled schemati-
               cally on the 5620, but accurately on the host.

          color
               Assign colors for display on other devices.

          remote
               Perform all editing on the host using the terminal as a
               display device only.

          Tped converts files of graphic information produced by ped
          into typesetting requests for troff(1). The options are:

          -Tdev
               Prepare output for particular devices known to troff:
               -Taps or -T202.
          -b   Place a box around each picture.

          The input may be straight ped output or may be arbitrary
          text files with ped output embedded between pairs of delim-
          iting lines:
               .GS [ size ] ped file . . .  .GE
          or in another file:
               .GS [ size ] pedfilename

          The optional size gives width or height: w=inches or
          h=inches.

     FILES
     SEE ALSO
          cip(9.1), paint(9.1), brush(9.1), graphdraw(9.1), pic(1),
          ideal(1), blitblt(9.1)
          T. Pavlidis, `PED Users Manual', this manual, Volume 2

     DIAGNOSTICS
          Error messages from the host are placed in file .pederr.

     BUGS
          Pictures may spill into the menu or message areas.
          Some experimentation with tped printout parameters may be
          needed to obtain satisfactory results.