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From: beck@hermod.cs.cornell.edu (Micah Beck)
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Subject: Re: bringing xfig upto scratch. idraw issues.
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Date: 9 Feb 90 12:44:56 GMT
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In article <2846@goanna.oz.au> isaac@goanna.oz.au (Isaac Balbin) writes:
> I am contemplating giving a programming project to a group
> of 3rd year undergraduate students that would involve bringing
> xfig to a better state. I mean, at least bringing it to a state where
> it has all the features of fig-fs, and handles text (scaling, size etc)
> better than fig-fs. Perhaps they might also bring some features from 
> idraw to this new version of xfig.

Bravo!  Fig-FS itself is no longer under development.  I have not been able
to contact the original author of Fig for some time.  The only XFig development
which I know of has been at Bellcore, and does not seem to be very active.

> Is anyone undertaking such a project or is it in the pipeline?

Not that I know of.  A graduate student at Cornell has developed a small
X graphics editor called XFlash which is Fig compatible, but it is still
quite experimental.

My heartiest encouragement to your project!
/micah