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From: rauletta@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Richard J. Auletta)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Drawing Programs for X11 (was Shadowed Boxes in PIC)
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Date: 21 Nov 89 15:27:36 GMT
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Reply-To: rauletta@gmuvax2.UUCP (Richard J. Auletta)
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>I am looking for a MacDraw-like program for X11, preferably using
>the Motif widgets.  Where can I obtain xfig and idraw, and are there
>any other candidate programs out there?
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Xfig comes with the R3 distribution but I think there are patches (Level 6)
so pulling it off of one of the X11 archieves with patches would
be wise. Can someone help with the exact locations (expo.mit.edu
and where in europe)? Xfig crashes once in a while, especially
when entering text, sometimes with floating point exceptions,
but even still (with frequent saves) its the best I seen
(compared to say cip.)

With Xfig you want to get the transfig set of programs for
converting from fig to pic, latex, ps, etc. I have a fixed
version of the fig to pic converter that correctly handles
arrow heads.

Idraw is part of Interviews toolkit, it can be had from
interviews.stanford.edu, and idraw is available in binary
which makes things easier (don't need the toolkit).
It is impressive, very Mac like, nice!

Hope this helps (and is reasonably accurate!)

--R J Auletta