Bug#448633: RFP: vrr -- vector image editor with tex support and svg/pdf output
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : vrr
Version : 0.9.4
Upstream Author : VRR developers <vrr@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
* URL : http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/projekty/vrr/
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C
Description : vector image editor with tex support and svg/pdf output
VRR (a Vector-based gRaphic editoR) is an application designed especially
for creating illustrations of mathematical articles.
VRR has a simple but powerful operation set: creating, manipulating and
transforming basic graphic primitives, which are points, segments,
rational Bézier curves, elliptic arcs etc. All objects can be determined
not only by absolute coordinates, but also by geometric dependencies on
other objects - intersections, significant points, other curves etc. When
an object is changed, the dependent objects are recalculated
automatically. This enables you to modify the image easily without
breaking the lines visually tied together.
VRR has a sophisticated system for working with text. In addition to
common text objects, it allows you to create text objects typeset by TeX
and make them part of your image. You can create almost anything from a
short math expression to several paragraphs of a text.
The editor is able to import from and export to files in common data
formats (export to PDF, PS, EPS and SVG, import from IPE5 and SVG).
VRR is a freely available open source program, which runs on Linux and
uses a graphical user interface based on the X Window System and GTK. The
authors suppose that the time spent by a user exploring VRR's interface
will bring him much joy later when he is able to use all of its powerful
advanced features.
The editor can be also easily extended by a plugin or by a program
written in its built-in scripting language, Scheme.
If you have any suggestions or bug reports, you can contact the VRR Team
on vrr@ucw.cz. For new release versions of VRR , documentation and many
related articles, see the VRR developers' page - http://vrr.ucw.cz/.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (50, 'testing'), (10, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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