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xfig
The xfig
utility mentioned several times in this documentation is
a freely distributable interactive drawing editor for the X Window
System. It can display and edit the output of any application that
uses the Fig Plotter support contained in GNU libplot
. That
includes graph -T fig
, plot -T fig
, pic2plot -T
fig
, tek2plot -T fig
, and plotfont -T fig
.
The current version is available at
ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/drawing_tools/. It can
import additional graphics in GIF, X11 bitmap, and Postscript formats.
Accompanying the editor is a package called transfig
, which
allows xfig
graphics to be exported in many formats. GIF, X11
bitmap, LaTeX, and Postscript formats are supported.
There is a Web page on Fig format, which discusses application software that can interoperate with
xfig
.