Re: vector drawing programs

[tao-patrick PSYCH YALE EDU (Patrick Tao)]

Dear Donovan,

> 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 --
> 

Thanks for the quick reply!!

Just another quick xfig question.  got the xfig-3.2.0beta3-1.i386.rpm from redhat.  Is that the latest?

Other question is that I have a histogram chart saved as an ps file.  All I want to do is import it into xfig and add some labels.  However I wasnt able to figure out how to import a ps file into xfig.  Can you give me a hand with this?

-p