Re: Suggestions for diagramming software
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 04:18:14AM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> > Hey Guys,
> >
> > I am Engineering student and I currently use latex and such to create my
> > reports. I just recently switched to Debian from Mac OS X. However, I was
> > looking for a good diagramming software for Linux. I heard of Xcircuit but
> > I was looking for something with a little less learning curve.
> >
> > Other than xcircuit, any other diagramming software that you guys
> > use/suggest. It doesn't have to specifically be related to engineering and
> > could simply be a software that draws block diagrams and etc. Just like
> > Visio or OmniGraffle on the Mac.
>
> You might want to check out texmacs, xfig. xfig produces nice .fig which
> which can be exported to .ps and then be included in your latex files. With
> texmacs, you can typeset the documents (just like latex) and it comes with
> its own diagram drawing tools. If you have some greek symbols,
> superscripts, subscripts in your diagram, then I am pretty sure you will be
> much more better off with texmacs than dia, xfig.
I'll second the suggestion of xfig. I used it extensively when I was
writing papers and slides in LaTeX. The commandline tools that go along
with it (particularly fig2dev and pstoedit) make it very easy to import
existing diagrams (in any format you can print to postscript, though you
won't get much advantage out of doing that with raster files) into it and
export diagrams from it into any format. Add the PStricks LaTeX package and
you can really do some impressive stuff with it. I still use xfig for my
diagramming needs whenever possible.
> hth
> raju
--Greg
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