Literal Headers Similarly, you can define your own macros for use in such literal graphics through the use of literal macros. Literal macros are defined just like literal graphics, only you begin the special with an exclamation point instead of a double quote. There are other ways to include graphics with dvips. The dimension parameters are all given in PostScript units. Offsets are given relative to the point of the special command, and are unaffected by scaling or rotation.
Rotation is counterclockwise about the origin.
The order of operations is to rotate the figure, scale it, then offset it. Some caveats are in order when using the above forms. Compressing PostScript graphics files can often reduce them by more than a factor of five. Go to the first , previous , next , last section, table of contents .