[comp.sources.wanted] Drawing tool for LaTeX picture environment.

gisle@ifi.uio.no (Gisle Hannemyr) (09/06/90)

I am looking for a drawing tool for the LaTeX picture environment
that runs on a Sun.  I would prefer SunView, but could also use
something under "X".  Also, public domain or shareware is
preferred.  If I could afford FrameMaker or Publisher I would not
need this.

More specific what I am looking for:

* A WYSIWYG drawing package that outputs a text file that may
  be included in a LaTeX document as a "picture" (as described
  in the LaTeX manual appendix C.13, page 196ff).

Alternatively (or also):

* A WYSIWYG drawing package that produces Encapsulated PostScript
  files that may be included in LateX documents using T. Darrell's
  psfigTeX package. (I know that Adobe Illustrator and several other
  packages that run on a Mac or a PC does this, but I want something
  for the Sun.)

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jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu (James Darrell McCauley) (09/06/90)

In article <GISLE.90Sep5200737@kyrre.uio.no>, gisle@ifi.uio.no (Gisle
Hannemyr) writes:
|> I am looking for a drawing tool for the LaTeX picture environment
|> that runs on a Sun.  I would prefer SunView, but could also use
|> something under "X".  Also, public domain or shareware is
|> preferred.  If I could afford FrameMaker or Publisher I would not
|> need this.

Look for xfig at cs.rochester.edu 

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pd1h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Philip H. Dye) (09/23/90)

We have three packages here which support LaTeX picture object editing:

TeXdraw:

    platform(s) :   X10 (or X11 using X10toX11)

    output      :   LaTeX native picture environment

    notes       :   - objects are restricted to sizes/orientations
                      that LaTeX's native picture mode supports

LaGrafix:

    platform(s) :   Macintosh

    output      :   LaTeX native picture environment

    notes       :   - objects are restricted to sizes/orientations
                      that LaTeX's native picture mode supports

Fig:

    platform(s) :   X11 (xfig 2.0), SunTools, CMU Andrew Window Manager
    output      :   custom fig file format

    notes       :   - objects may be restricted to sizes/orientations
                      that LaTeX's native picture mode supports

                    - psfig includes tools to convert from fig output
                      file to various latex picture environments but
                      not back to fig's file format.

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