Re: vector drawing programs

[Stuart Luppescu <s-luppescu uchicago edu>]

On 04-Oct-97 Lord of the Elves wrote:
> In message <199710031448 KAA11640 cajal yale edu>,Patrick Tao writes:
>>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.
[stuff about xfig edited]
> There's also Xpaint, but I don't use it much. Xpaint is like a hotted up 
> version of MS paint.

Xpaint is a bitmap drawing program, not a vector drawing program. I would also
recommend the gimp, also available from the redhat contrib directory. It does
some amazing things.
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