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Re: which one: xfig, dia or inkscape



>>>>> abdelkader belahcene <abelahcene@gmail.com> writes:

 > until now, I used xfig to draw my figures and graphs, but I am not
 > satisfied, specially when I want to no latin caracters or formula
 > (like in latex)

	The PostScript graphics produced by XFig could often easily be
	combined with LaTeX formulae thanks to the ‘psfrag’ package (as
	in: \usepackage {psfrag}.)  Unfortunately, it's fundamentally
	incompatible with pdflatex(1).

	Alternatively, the graphics could be turned into any of the
	“editable” vector formats that could be referenced from within a
	LaTeX document (such as PIC, MetaPost, etc.) and manually edited
	to add all the necessary text and formulae.

 > I tried inkscape it seems better ???

	Inkscape is essentially the same, but it uses a standard format
	(SVG) for its graphics, instead of inventing its own (what XFig
	did, preasumably because there was no such a format at the time
	XFig was developed.)  Also, both the SVG format and Inkscape
	itself, AIUI, have much better support for internationalization.

	Unfortunately, doing formulae in Inkscape is nowhere as easy as
	it's in LaTeX.

	There's, however, the pMMLtoSVG package, which is supposed to
	produce quality SVG rendering of formulae typeset in
	Presentation MathML.  Also, there're a few converters from
	pseudo-TeX format to MathML (check, e. g., the ttm and latexml
	Debian packages.)  I don't know whether pMMLtoSVG is currently
	in a usable state, though.  (It's my opinion that the project
	would benefit should a few more volunteers join in.)

 > what about dia ??

	Dia has support for what I prefer to call “parametric graphics”.
	I. e., it could be extended by “plugins”, each providing a
	particular “parametric” shape.  E. g., there could be a plugin
	that draws a star, which has the number of points as the
	parameter.  To the best of my knowledge, it's the sole advantage
	of using Dia instead of either Inkscape or XFig.

 > I want to a good choice.  any idea thanks a lot

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