On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 12:11 +1300, Ian McDonald wrote:
Folks,
What do people use mainly?
dia xfig inkscape In a semi-order-of-preference. I figure you are asking this because you want to draw diagrams in technical papers/presentations. I think the answer is "there is nothing good". I am, and have been, doing the same and have made do with the tools above, but I really feel like this is an area that is lacking in Linux. Dia is very good if what you want actually fits within its bounds; what it does it does well, but what it does is quite limited. xfig is old, ugly, hard to use, but powerful enough and includes lots of necessary features. It is quite capable as a vector editor program. inkscape is newer and pretty, and I've just been using it myself now with a reasonable amount of success. It aims to be something like Corel Draw or similar. It is far behind its commercial counterparts in the Windows world, but is at a stage now where it is quite usable. All of these programs export to EPS. Never used kivio (not a KDE person), so I can't comment on that. There are a few other programs you might look at: There is also Sodipodi, which I believe is a fork of Inkscape. I always idly hope that there is some great diagramming and vector drawing program in Linux that I have somehow missed all this time, but so far I have been disappointed.
I was going to use Dia from Gnome but this project doesn't seem to be moving ahead so going to use kivio.
I will update the Wiki with what I find.
I'd be interested in your findings!
Requirements: - vector based as doing diagrams rather than pictures - ability to export to a format suitable for LaTeX (EPS or similar should be fine).
Ian -- Ian McDonald http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 WAND Network Research Group University of Waikato New Zealand
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