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From: scott@wiley.uucp (Scott Simpson)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Figures in (La)TeX (was: What is PiCTeX)
Summary: 4 out of 5 dentists find idraw better than xfig.
Keywords: idraw, xfig, graphics editors, graphics inclusion, TeX
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Date: 15 Aug 90 16:32:54 GMT
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In article <58919@bbn.BBN.COM> cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) writes:
>I don't know the capabilities of xfig --- the version of 'fig' I have
>available to me on my SunView-SUN is pretty lousy as drawing programs go.

Does anybody out there use idraw!? I find it far superior to xfig
(although I haven't tried the new version of xfig). Idraw is much like
MacDraw. It is available in the InterViews C++ toolkit from
interviews.stanford.edu. It generates BoundingBox comments so it is
usable with drivers like dvips and can be used with epsf \specials.
Scott Simpson    		TRW 			scott@coyote.trw.com