From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <38d44a937853b7d7c9a875c3d90461db@quintile.net> References: <38d44a937853b7d7c9a875c3d90461db@quintile.net> Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 22:19:59 -0300 Message-ID: From: =?UTF-8?Q?Iruat=C3=A3_Souza?= To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] pic Topicbox-Message-UUID: e885751a-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Steve Simon wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to try to get something =C2=A0running 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: > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0art (from the 2nd edition), though Andrey did = stirling work > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0porting it to the draw model years ago I hones= tly don't feel it > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0up to the job - perhaps my lack of stamina? > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0cip/xcip - this is part of the blit distributi= on and xcip is > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0avaialable on the net these days. I have a vag= ue memory that > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0someone got this to run on a modern OS - plan9= /X11 perhaps? > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0anyone know more? > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0picasso - this would be x11 only and was in th= e later DWB > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0distributions but I seen no sign of any source= for it anywhere. > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0anyone have the code which I could copy? > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0xfig + transfig - feels a bit like a patch on = a patch and, being > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0modern unix code would (no doubt) include conf= igure hell... > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0MS windows + visio, print to a file and includ= e it as postscript > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0into my troff doc - feels like gining in. > > Thnaks for any help/advice. > > -Steve > > http://figr.org/