Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > I need to vent frustration. > > Xfig has got to be the single most un-user friendly piece of software I've > ever seen. I experience physical pain everytime I use it. > > It's NOT a hyperbole to say that I can do most diagrams faster by coding the > picture environment by hand than drawing the equivalent diagram with xfig. > Maybe if xfig developers stole the Gimp interface things would be better. > As it stands, it looks like a musty UNIX(TM) application from the 80's. > Looks like Xaw or something. Congress should do something useful for a > change, like outlawying the X toolkit. > > My hat is off to anyone on this list who is actually handy with this > monstrosity. > > Dia's interface is OK, but doesn't give me a lot of control over the > objects. Its font stuff almost never works right when you view the final > LaTeX dvi/postscript. Dia also seems to have wierd scaling issues when > exporting to tex format. Also, Dia is WYSIAWYG (what you see is almost what > you get). > > What I really want is a program like Macromedia Flash that can export to a > LaTeX picture environment format. > > I'd settle for Gimp having vector operations. Although Gimp can export to > vector formats, it's firmly a bitmap-centric application and unsuited for > this kind of thing. > > There's a rumor that Macromedia might be porting its suite to Linux. I will > be VERY HAPPY if that comes true. I'd gladly shell out a few hundred bucks > for that program on Linux.
I'm not sure if there was a question here, but have you tried using inkscape or sodipodi? Saves in eps and svg formats (and some bitmap formats as well), and I think it's a pretty good application. --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures.
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