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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

> I want to add arrows pointing to stuff, as well as text that say what
> the stuff is.  Like
> 
>   This is the letter n -------------->  n 
> 
> Well, perhaps not in that great a detail.
> 
> Using picture mode in LaTeX is an option, but it's way too much work
> figuring out the slopes of all those vectors and the positions of all
> those text snippets.  Wussywig is where it's at for drawing.
> 
> What program do people use for this kind of thing?  Take some random
> graphic, add arrows and text and stuff, and generate a PS file?
> 
> I could use Framemaker, I guess...

  The GIMP might do what you want.
http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~gimp/gimp.html

-Bill P.