The xfig package goes in the /contrib/applications/drawing_tools/xfig directory
and the transfig package goes in the /contrib/applications/drawing_tools/transfig
directory

Thank you.
Brian Smith


Xfig is a menu-driven tool that allows the user to draw and manipulate objects
interactively in an X window.  The resulting pictures can be saved, printed
on postscript printers or converted to a variety of other formats (e.g. to
allow inclusion in LaTeX documents).

xfig 3.2.3b is available from ftp://www-epb.lbl.gov/xfig and usually from any CTAN
(Comprehensive TeX Archive Network) site such as ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/tex/ctan/.
See http://math.nmu.edu/Web/TeXArchives/ctansite.html for a long list of CTAN sites.

Be sure to set binary mode when transferring.

Here are the files:

xfig.3.2.3b.full.tar.gz                 tar file with everything
xfig.3.2.3b.code_only.tar.gz            tar file with source only
xfig.3.2.3b.docs_only.tar.gz            tar file with docs only (man pages, html)
xfig.3.2.3b.libraries_only.tar.gz       tar file with only Fig Object Libraries

You also need to get TransFig version 3.2.3b.  TransFig contains the post-
processor needed by xfig to convert fig files to one of several output formats,
such as PostScript, pic, LaTeX etc.  The TransFig package can always be found
at the same site as xfig.

Please send email about any questions/bug fixes/contributions etc. about
TransFig or xfig to [email protected].

Brian V. Smith
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
I don't speak for LBNL; they don't pay me enough for that.

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Following is a description of the CHANGES for 3.2.3b.

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Version 3.2 Patchlevel 3b (Jul 19, 2000)
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NEW FEATURES:
       o Object library now shows icons of all objects. The size of the icons
         is selectable from 40 pixels to 120 via a pulldown menu and resource
         (Fig.library_icon_size). The the old "list" view is also available.
       o When drawing an arc by specifying the center point, a circle is drawn
         showing the radius of the arc as the user drags the mouse, then when
         the first end point is clicked an arc is drawn as the mouse is dragged
       o Simplistic super/subscripting by typing Ctrl-^ for superscript and
         Ctrl-_ for subscript.  It creates a new string in the proper size
         and position for super- or subscripting.  May be nested.  Does NOT
         work for centered or right-justified text.
         from Ian Hutchinson ([email protected]) with improvements by Brian V.
         Smith
       o new Imakefile variable NEED_STRERROR to allow for systems that don't
         have the sys_errlist[] error string array (this is already in fig2dev)
       o Additional JPEG file format (EXIF) added. These usually come from
         digital cameras
       o New library of knitting symbols from Kate Hedstrom
         ([email protected])
       o New Cisco network devices in Libraries/Networks from Louis B. Moore
         ([email protected])
       o New 10/100 Ether network hub in Libraries/Networks from Dirko van
         Schalkwyk ([email protected])
       o New libraries from Al Delgado for Chen's model of Entity Relations
         (Libraries/ERD) and symbols for various widgets, e.g. buttons,
         sliders, scrollbars, etc. (Libraries/GUI)

BUGS FIXED:
       o If the BSD symbol is defined but has no value, the "#if" condition
               #if ( !(defined(BSD) && (BSD >= 199306)) && ...
       o Importing 24-bit PCX files works now with the new PCX reader from
         Russell Marks (public domain).
       o Importing PPM images with more than 256 colors failed because it was
         first converted to 24-bit PCX, which xfig couldn't read before now.
       o Importing TIFF files (which is first converted to PPM them to PCX)
         works now with new PCX reader to handle 24-bit images.
       o Bug where updating an arrowhead used the line thickness from the
         current settings instead of the line being updated to set the
         arrowhead thickness.
       o "=" instead of "==" in checking if picture type is XBM to allow
         updating pen color from update button
       o xfig would stop reading objects from a file when it encountered one
         bad object unless it had already read one or more good objects
       o If a polygon was created with ALL coincident points (i.e. zero width/
         height, xfig would remove ALL points when reading the file and would
         subsequently crash.  Objects with zero width/height are now removed
         when reading the file.
       o If a box with fewer than four points or a polygon with fewer than
         three points is read from a file, xfig removes it
       o Could still move point of object even if its depth was not active
       o References to "make" in Imakefile changed to "$(MAKE)"
       o When vertex number display was turned on, canvas wasn't refreshed to
         show them
       o When the page border was turned off, the zero-crossing lines weren't
         redrawn
       o User colors defined in the current session weren't saved with the
         figure.
       o User could click on text in disabled layer when in text mode
       o Bug which allowed only 511 user colors instead of 512
       o Background color of RGB slider lock buttons changed to random color
         when lock turned off
       o User colors in current figure would be lost if user previewed more
         than one file before cancelling file popup
       o "Transparent" color menu button for GIF export wasn't updated after
         export panel was created when loading new figure
       o Spurious comments would appear in spline after editing control point
       o If editing spline point for curvature and spline line had zero
         thickness, the spline would dissappear during edit
       o Incorrect declaration for put_msg()
       o Prepended $(DESTDIR) to $(XFIGLIBDIR) directory variable in Imakefile
         to be portable
       o Changed w_menuentryP.h and w_menuentry.c to explicitely use
         X11/Xaw3d/...  path for menu entry when user has XAW3D set in
         Imakefile to use 3D Athena Widget set
       o xfig now uses gunzip instead of uncompress to uncompress .Z files to
         be more portable for Cygwin environment
       o Current directory for loading/saving figures was overwritten when
         changing export or picture browse directory
       o Loading a .fig file or importing a picture from an MSDOS filesystem
         failed because xfig tried to see if the file existed with a suffix of
         .Z, .gz, or .z, all of which were reported by stat() to exist because
         it apparently truncates any suffixes after the first
       o Bounding box of objects in negative region weren't calculated
         correctly when positioning grid was on
       o If "allow negative coordinates" was turned off, one could still pan
         into negative region by dragging mouse on side ruler with middle
         button pressed
       o Bug which prevented dragging rulers (with middle mouse button) into
         negative region unless it had been moved into the positive region first
       o If user specified a -geometry on the command-line and then switched to
         Portrait mode, the geometry requested was overridden
       o Various bugs in export commands when calling fig2dev
       o Inconsistent prototypes declared for pw_arcbox() and curve()
       o One of the header values for TIFF files was incorrect (was "DD",
         should be "II")
       o When scaling a box and the point positioning grid is more coarse than
         the points in the box, and you try to grab a corner of the box, xfig
         thought you want to scale either horizontally or vertically only.
       o Excessive updating of layer buttons when reading Fig file fixed
       o Problem when exporting to GIF with transparent = background
       o Certain files are now opened in binary mode ("wb" or "rb") for DOS
         compatibility

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