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From: rhaar@rcsrlh.GMR.COM (Bob Haar CS50)
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Subject: Re: X-window paint programs
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Date: 7 Jan 91 13:25:04 GMT
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In article <7958@hub.ucsb.edu>, 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.

This sounds more like what I think of as a drawing program. There is a
pretty good object-oriented draw program called fig ( xfig in its
X11 version) that I use frequently.

|>                                             And output to g3 fax, pcx, or
|> any of the pbm formats.

fig uses it's own format for storing drawings, but comes with a conversion
utility (f2ps) for producing Postscript files. You should be able
to go from this to some bit-mapped representation.

	Bob Haar   CSNET: HAAR@GMR.COM  UUCP: uunet!edsews!rphroy!rcsrlh!rhaar
	Computer Science Dept., G.M. Research Laboratories
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