Hi WIlliam, Ipe's logic is somewhat peculiar, but very powerful when you get used to it. I have also observed that it generates very small and clean pdf files.
Jpicedt is very powerful if you use with the option PSTricks (in the Menu Edit/Format). Then you get access to the full potential of Postscript (for the shape fills for example). But, including PSTricks in a file to be compiled with pdflatex is rather tricky (but perfectly possible otherwise, there are web pages explaining how to proceed), so you will rather prefer the chain Latex->DVI->Postscript-PDF. You also need a JRE to execute it, since it is Java program. The advantage of these two programs is the possibility of directly typing latex command in text boxes (including math), and the coherence you get in terms of typesetting between the rest of your text and your graphics. Tikz can also provide such a coherence but the learning cost is higher I think. Inkscape has also a plugin (textext if I remember well) that provides this possibility but I have never been able to make it work under OSX, even using Macports. 2012/7/17 William R. Buckley <[email protected]> > Thank you all for the list of tools. > > As my need was urgent, I tried IPE, and it works well, though is > a bit clunky. > > Will try the others, and return a quick sense of utility for each. > > wrb > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > > Behalf Of Liviu Andronic > > Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 5:03 AM > > To: Wolfgang Keller > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Graphics Tools > > > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Wolfgang Keller <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > Wikipedia is very helpful when searching for (especially > > > free open-source-)software. > > > > > I like alternativeTo for this. :) > > > > Liviu > > -- Prof. Murat Yildizoglu Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113) Avenue Léon Duguit 33608 Pessac cedex France Bureau : E-331 [email protected] http://yildizoglu.info http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu
