About:
Xfig is a menu-driven tool that allows the user to draw and manipulate objects interactively in an X window. The resulting pictures can be saved, printed on postscript printers or converted to a variety of other formats (e.g. to allow inclusion in LaTeX documents).

Author:
Brian V. Smith [contact developer]

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8.36/10.00 (13 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.xfig.org/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		X11 Applications
[License]		Freely Distributable
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors :: Vector-Based

Dependencies: [change]
libpng (required)
Netpbm (required)
transfig (required)
libjpeg (recommended)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	3.2.3d	21-Nov-2001	Freely Distributable

 Articles referencing this project

• Printing Software
  by Grant Taylor , in Category Reviews
  Sat, Sep 15th 2001 00:00
  

 Comments

[»] A great package for drawings in LaTeX documents
by Rogério Brito - Mar 18th 2006 05:15:26

It seems that I will stick with xfig for many years to come. This is a superb piece of software and quite handy for drawing graphs (the mathematical objects that consist of "balls" and "lines").

Diagrams are easier to produce with it than with other software that I tried (e.g., Inkscape).

And that's not to mention the plain text file format that is easily understandable.


Highly recommended.

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