[Output Generation] PIC renderer does not work and probably never has
Ported Issue from Mantis Original ID: 2577 Reported By: steve roush
SEVERITY: MINOR Submitted: 2015-11-10 04:30:35
DESCRIPTION
PIC output produces odd error messages when fed to gpic due to roff comments being embedded in the PIC code, instead of PIC comments. While possibly legal, gpic can't handle these comments. More importantly, after fixing the comment format, it became apparent that the PIC renderer produces useless output (a string of numbers representing x/y coordinates - nothing else) for all PIC commands, except for the ellipse command.
Icing on the cake is that (to my knowledge) PIC can only "fill" circles, ellipses, and boxes, not general polygons.
Maybe it is time to bury PIC - or just support a subset of object types.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
run any dot file thru the PIC renderer and the output through gpic.