Today I spent some time (not a lot, really) translating some forms I use (as a neurologist). I made many of these over the years, most recently in latex -- took a while to figure out what I needed, and how to put things where I wanted them. Part of the form incorporates some vector drawings I made with xfig -- fortunately a lot of cloning was involved. I converted these to EPS files to incorporate into latex, then to PS with dvips.
It took me so long to get things figured out with latex, I've been too lazy to modify it for years. So today, after perhaps no more than an hour or so, I had a version with Scribus, then a PDF. If anyone wants to take a look, they're at ftp://nsapsc.com -- there's a .sla and a .pdf of the same form. The "stick figure" is something new (neurologists use this to mark notes about reflexes), and made piece by piece with Scribus; probably could have made it faster with Inkscape, but I didn't have that on the computer at the office. It somewhat surprised me that the .sla file is much bigger than the .pdf -- must be the EPS files? Greg Pittman
