Sites related to FIG

• Related sites
  • Software Archives
    • the Scientific Applications on Linux website has much information on xfig and related software. See also SAL's CAD page for drawing packages.
    • Tivea Drawing and Photo Apps
    • SourceForge's vector graphics page. (See this also.)
    • net.sw Gallery of Free Software Packages for Unix.
    • List of drawing s/w
  • Galleries, Archives, and Collections of FIG drawings
    • Xfig Artwork Gallery - A selection of FIG 3.1 drawings, mostly airplanes, done by Carlo Kopp.
    • Simple Electronics Library - electronic symbols in FIG format.
  • Other sites
    • T. Sato's XFig page. An excellent source of XFig information in English and Japanese.
    • Xfig: some hints, a user's guide to xfig by Tim Love.
    • XFig Trickkiste A German language page on XFig tricks

• Related Software - these don't use FIG format, but may be of interest.

  Article from 2005 on vector graphics programs.

  • InkScape Open Source vector graphics editor, uses SVG.
    • OpenOffice SVG Import (Regardez le page ici.)
  • A review of vector drawing tools for Linux, by Michael J. Hammel. (A followup is available.)
  • A list of vector drawing tools.
  • tgif - Another X11 based drawing package. Author: William Chia-Wei Cheng.
  • ivtools - includes idraw, an editor which uses a simplified PostScript format for its native graphics format.
  • Ipe - a drawing editor. Saves files which combine LaTeX with PostScript.
  • Sketch - a drawing editor for UNIX like systems. Under development.
  • Impress - a Tcl/Tk script graphics editor.
  • GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program. (See also Gfig)
  • DIA, a diagramming tool based on gtk+.
  • xpaint - David Koblas' paint program for X11.
  • XCircuit - a circuit schematic drawing tool
  • Brusey20 is a tool to create VHDL descriptions from state diagrams created in XFig and saved as PIC files.
  • Until - a graphics editor from the Chipmunk Package.
  • GeoSheet - a visualisation tool for geometric algorithms, with an Xfig based GUI.
  • GYVE the GNU Yellow Vector Editor.
  • MetaGraf - Java based vector drawing program
  • VRFig - PDA based drawing program
  • Fig2java - does not use FIG format files, even though the name suggests this.
  • Freedraft open source 2D CAD program.
  • Tkpaint - drawing program based on TCL/Tk
  • Tkdraw - simple TCL/TK drawing tool
  • Sodipodi - GNOME vector editor, produces SVG output
  • Gill - another GNOME SVG editor
  • vec2web DXF to PNG converter.
  • Qfig a Windows and DOS vector editor. Produces output for LaTeX documents. Not FIG. Author Tetsuo Iwakuma.
  • FIGlet is an ASCII-art font renderer. (Not FIG.)
• KVEC - a commercial raster to vector package - will export to FIG format.

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