[Groff] Integrating Figures and text ?

[John W. Smay]

This is a problem I have had for years and hope maybe someone, or everyone but 
me, has a simple solution.  I write technical text and equations with groff, 
then save as .ps (PostScript) and translate to .pdf (Acrobat).   I parallel I 
generate figures, mostly complex line drawings or technical plots (not 
photographs or "art") that are illustrations to accompany the groff text.  The 
figures are made with other applications such as Canvas, fortran code, of c 
code. but all (most) can be in either .ps, .eps. or .pdf format.  

So in the end I have a file with groff generated code in .ps or .pdf, and a 
separate file with the illustration in the same format.  The groff file is a 
page with text at the top, a blank portion for the illustration, and more text 
at the bottom. The problem is to combine the two files into a single .ps or 
better .pdf that presents text and figure on the same page.   There must be a 
command sequence to be embedded in the groff source that will import the file 
with the illustration in a satisfactory fashion.

I have tried more alternate approaches than I cam remember, e.g.. importing 
both the groff .ps or .pdf and the illustration into Canvas or Word, editing 
onto a single page, then resaving the result, but every attempt is flawed in 
some way!  Bolds disappear, subscripts get misplaced or resized or countless 
other flaws.

Thanks in advance, John

John W. Smay
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