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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 23:56:28 +0100
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Subject: [9fans] pic
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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