tgif is very very nice. Can make just about any sort of line drawing. Special script-driven features that let you insert e.g. rendered Latex inside the drawing. Writes solid, readable EPS with good bounding boxes that can be imported into Latex without further ado. You can draw in black-on-white and convert the EPS's to (for example) white-on-blue with your favorite scripting language (because the EPS's are so legible). Also imports and exports to the usual bitmap formats. I gave up on xfig a long time ago. tgif is an easy compile too.
BTW if you end up in the PC/Mac world, Canvas is very good. Judah Nick Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The drawings I'm talking about are just diagrams for a paper, not > technical drawings. > > Thanks, > > Nick > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Don Schmadel wrote: > > > I use the openoffice suite for drawings for presentations. It's > > similar to Microsoft products. > > > > For mechanical drawings I use Varicad. It, however, cost $100 academic. > > > > -Don > > > > Nick Cummings wrote: > >> I need to make a few drawings for a paper I'm working on. The > >> drawings I'm talking about will just be lines, arrows, and numbers, > >> essentially. Can anyone suggest some good Linux software for this > >> task? > >> My criteria for goodness are basically that it be free (as in > >> beer), easy to learn to use (at least at a basic level) and > >> featureful/stable enough to be used for my modest purposes. > >> I've used Adobe Illustrator for these purposes once or twice > >> before, but it seems like overkill, and I can't use it at home on > >> my Linux machine. I looked around and saw some promising sounding > >> candidates, like Sketch and Inkscape. And maybe you can do > >> everything I want with the Gimp easily enough. I figured that > >> someone else probably has experience with this. > >> Thanks, > >> Nick > > >
