You might try the Canvas 7 beta at www.deneba.com
It's a WINE-based port of their Mac/Win program & it works
remarkably well under Linux. Quite usable on a
400 MHz P II laptop. Canvas is a full featured combination of
Photoshop/Illustrator capabilities, smoothly integrating vector &
bitmapped graphics in one inexpensive package (the Linux beta is free)
Unfortunately, it suffers from the lack of 3rd party books to
illustrate its power.
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Gerald Cecil [EMAIL PROTECTED] 919-962-7209
Physics & Astronomy, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3255 USA
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, James Sinnamon wrote:
> Dear LyX users,
>
> I feel as if I am at my wit's end trying to find a vector drwaing
> program which allow me to create drawings which I can export as eps
> files for
> inclusion in a LyX document. I may have no alternative, but to use
> xfig, but it seems
> very unwieldy and it seems to take me forever to draw anything.
>
>
> These are the other packages I have tried:
>
> Package Problem
>
> Killustrator Crashes when I try to export as eps
> Dia Crashes and unable to reload *.dia file (still
> at ver 0.86)
> Sketch Can't export eps
>
> Regarding sketch, I am told that it will work if the eps, however eps
> is not directly supported by the PIL (Python Image Library) upon
> which sketch is built.
>
> Killustrator seems like the most straightforward and simple to use, but
>
> it has a number of acknowledged bugs, and little further work seems to
> have been done with Killustrator since March 2000.
>
> How are eps files created? Filters to create eps files.
> =====================================
>
> I will probably perservere with Sketch or, maybe, even xfig.
> Nevertheless, I would be interested to know how other LyX users
> create Encapsualted Postscript Vector graphic images, to include in
> LyX documents.
>
> Are there filter programs out there anywhere which can create eps
> files?
>
> Why only eps?
> ============
>
> Also, sorry to ask what is likely to be a FAQ, but why are Postscript
> and Encapsulated Postscript the only graphics formats which can be
> imported into a LyX document?
>
> Thanks for your attention.
>
> regards,
>
> James
>
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>
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