Re: vector drawing programs

[Lord of the Elves <elflord pegasus rutgers edu>]

In message <199710031448 KAA11640 cajal yale edu>,Patrick Tao writes:
>Dear RHL users,
>
>Was wondering if anyone knows of a good vector drawing program that can produc
>e a professional looking figure from a postscript or eps image.  I used to use
> Adobe Illustrator for the MSwindows for this kind of stuff and dont know of o
>ne for the Linux plateform.
>
You're looking for a 2d post-script interactive figure drawing tool, right?

The latest version of XFig is very good. The older Xfig is buggy, so you'll 
want
the new one which you can download from the RedHat contrib archive. 
There's a huge difference in reliability - the old one crashed all the time, 
the new one never crashes.
The contrib archive address is ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib 
The other one which is quite good is tgif ( The name has nothing to do with 
gif file types... )
You can download an RPM from the same place. 
This archive is a great place to get software, all (almost) of the latest 
things seem to be there in RPM format.

There's also Xpaint, but I don't use it much. Xpaint is like a hotted up 
version of MS paint.

-- Donovan --