guru@FLORA.WUSTL.EDU.UUCP (06/03/88)
I am looking for a good graphics editor which - can help draw all kinds of figures and pictures - produces postcript output which can be used with other TeX or LaTeX files - can be used from suntools or X (reason for the cross posting) - is a public domain software or a COMMERCIAL product (that is, willing to pay $$) - is considerably better than graphedit or fig Could you suggest anything which meets MOST of these requirements ? (We are exploring Autocad but not sure if it is worth its high cost.) Thanks! -guru Dr. Guru Parulkar Asst Professor guru@flora.wustl.edu Dept of Computer Science parulkar@udel.edu Washington University wucs1!guru@uunet.uu.net St. Louis MO 63130 (314) 889-4621
shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni) (06/07/88)
I have used the "Gremlin" editor which does almost all that you describe. I don't know whether it produces PostScript output, but it *does* have an associated postprocessor called "grn" which produces ditroff commands for inclusion in a troff document. I believe Gremlin comes with the MIT X-Windows distribution, but I'm not sure. (We just get the whole kit and caboodle from a common source within our company) There's probably a version out there somewhere that has a PostScript post- processor. Is there? Shankar.
opcode%addax@Sun.COM (Mark Opperman) (06/09/88)
Actually, gremlin/grn/et. al. are part of the ditroff distribution from UC Berkeley. Included is also a postprocessor, gr2ps, that generates PostScript from a gremlin file (originally written by John Coker, I have source with some bug fixes). ATT & Berkeley ditroff have some subtle differences that make grn incompatible with the former, at least last time I looked. I understand that there is an effort underway to port gremlin to X11, but you need to contact Berkeley for more information on that and about their ditroff software in general. Mark.