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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: [9fans] pic
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 23:56:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <38d44a937853b7d7c9a875c3d90461db@quintile.net> (raw)

Hi,

I would like to try to get something  running which
would allow me to draw pic documents in a WYSIWYG style
I have a load of rather complex drawings to do.

The obvious candidates (it seems to me) are:

	art (from the 2nd edition), though Andrey did stirling work
	porting it to the draw model years ago I honestly don't feel it
	up to the job - perhaps my lack of stamina?

	cip/xcip - this is part of the blit distribution and xcip is
	avaialable on the net these days. I have a vague memory that
	someone got this to run on a modern OS - plan9/X11 perhaps?
	anyone know more?

	picasso - this would be x11 only and was in the later DWB
	distributions but I seen no sign of any source for it anywhere.
	anyone have the code which I could copy?

	xfig + transfig - feels a bit like a patch on a patch and, being
	modern unix code would (no doubt) include configure hell...

	MS windows + visio, print to a file and include it as postscript
	into my troff doc - feels like gining in.

Thnaks for any help/advice.

-Steve



             reply	other threads:[~2011-05-23 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-23 22:56 Steve Simon [this message]
2011-05-23 23:05 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-05-23 23:19   ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2011-05-24  1:19 ` Iruatã Souza
2011-05-24  2:26 ` Anthony Sorace
2011-05-24 16:11   ` Anthony Sorace
2011-05-24  2:53 ` Russ Cox
2011-05-24 15:32   ` roger peppe
2011-05-24 15:48     ` simon softnet
2011-05-24 16:22     ` Russ Cox
2011-05-24  5:03 ` tlaronde
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-13 19:48 Skip Tavakkolian
2003-10-13 20:12 ` Russ Cox
2003-10-15  5:51 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-15  7:31   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2003-10-16 22:03     ` Charles Forsyth

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