Xref: utzoo alt.graphics.pixutils:538 comp.windows.x:31155 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!dutrun!dutncp8!adri From: adri@dutncp8.tudelft.nl (A.B. van Woerkom) Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils,comp.windows.x Subject: Re: X-window paint programs Message-ID: Date: 5 Jan 91 09:22:10 GMT References: <7958@hub.ucsb.edu> Sender: news@dutrun.UUCP Lines: 24 jim@ferkel.ucsb.edu (Jim Lick) writes: >I've asked around, and I can't believe what people are telling me! Is it >really true that there aren't any simple X-windows paint programs? I mean >besides the silly bitmap program. >In case there IS something out there, I'd like the ability to draw lines, >put in bitmapped text, simple polygons, etc. And output to g3 fax, pcx, or >any of the pbm formats. What about xfig; available on every decent X archive site. There also exists a transfig package to translate (x)fig format to pic, postscript, LaTex, and maybe more. >Help! Hope this helps. -- A.B. van Woerkom, adri@dutncp6.tudelft.nl Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Applied Physics, Physics Informatics Group, section Computational Physics, Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ DELFT, The Netherlands ________________________________________________________________________ "Unfortunately, the current generation of mail programs do not have checkers to see if the sender knows what he is talking about" (A.S. Tanenbaum)