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Re: Xfig

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Post by upofadown »

I just used Xfig to make a diagram yesterday. There are other things out there but it was easy to learn and seems to work well enough. I just export to SVG when I am done.

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Post by teekert »

jesuslop wrote: post #2

It looked vintage even in the nineties

And this not exaggerated :)

It always looked like running on open/blackbox with no further dependencies installed.

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Post by russtrotter »

I used to often reach for xfig for a quick tech diagram (boxes, circles, lines, etc). The "fig" file format, being text, is easy to drop into source control. It's fast and gets the job done. The feeling I get from peers, especially those who've never understood that unix/linux on desktop has long been a thing or really lived that far out of the Win32/MacOS ecosystem, look at you sideways when the file extension isn't .docx, or .ppt or whatever. Maybe SVG supplants fig in all the ways, but I still hope tools like xfig keep their place for quite some time.

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Post by thriftwy »

russtrotter wrote: post #5

I used to often reach for xfig for a quick tech diagram (boxes, circles, lines, etc). The "fig" file format, being text, is easy to drop into source control. It's fast and gets the job done. The feeling I get from peers, especially those who've never understood that unix/linux on desktop has long been a thing or really lived that far out of the Win32/MacOS ecosystem, look at you sideways when the file extension isn't…

Then there's Dia with more focus on the tech diagrams.

Re: Xfig

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Post by linguae »

This tool has been very helpful for me in situations where I need to create professional-looking diagrams for papers yet I have no access to OmniGraffle or Visio, especially during my student days when I couldn't afford licenses for those tools.

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Post by oriolid »

Awesome that Xfig still around. I used Xfig for the illustrations to my master's thesis back in the day when Inkscape was new, because it felt like Inkscape is trying to make precise alignment difficult on purpose. It still feels the same.
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