[sci.electronics] Schematic entry in unix

jmn@ibiza.berkeley.edu (Jan Noworolski) (11/12/89)

I've never seen this one discussed on the net- how do all you sci.electronics
types enter schematics- as in: using unix, some kind of graphic utility-
final purpose- include schematic in publication/paper.

There are lots of nifty schematic capture programs out in the pc world-
of course you pay for them. Hasn't anyone written something pd for the 
unix world?

mark

phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai) (11/18/89)

In article <19461@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> jmn@ibiza.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Jan Noworolski) writes:
|I've never seen this one discussed on the net- how do all you sci.electronics
|types enter schematics- as in: using unix, some kind of graphic utility-
|final purpose- include schematic in publication/paper.
|
|There are lots of nifty schematic capture programs out in the pc world-
|of course you pay for them. Hasn't anyone written something pd for the 
|unix world?

This is one reason why former Unix snobs like me are taking PCs very
seriously these days. Although the PC tools are not PD, they are much
cheaper than tools that run on Suns. 

For what you said you wanted, you might just go ahead and use a PC
schematic capture program, make a postscript output file, and transfer
that to your Unix system. Assuming you haven't figured out that PCs
have some very nice word processing software too. (like interleaf)

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