Re: looking for interactive free desktop software to transform hand-drawn jpg diagrams to svg

[Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>]

Van Snyder (HE12025-07-28):
> Although they can't trace out your figures, xfig and tgif are both free
> object-oriented drawing (not painting) programs into which you can
> import a graphic (of almost any representation — png, jpg, gif, …) and
> then superimpose your lines, circles, ellipses, text, ….

For diagrams specifically, we should mention dia, it is designed to
preserve the connections between objects even when moving them. I
usually get frustrated with GUIs pretty fast and give up in favor of
TikZ or Perl+Cairo after ~15 minutes, but this time I managed to do a
full network map with it.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George