From: "Iruatã Souza" <iru.muzgo@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] pic
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 22:19:59 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=kMnyGw2j+YX3cOrHiHoycOyYFqA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38d44a937853b7d7c9a875c3d90461db@quintile.net>
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> 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
>
>
http://figr.org/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-24 1:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-23 22:56 Steve Simon
2011-05-23 23:05 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-05-23 23:19 ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2011-05-24 1:19 ` Iruatã Souza [this message]
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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