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From: Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 16:05:50 -0700
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] pic
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Google docs; no contest.

-Skip

On May 23, 2011, at 3:56 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
>