OT: Freeware drawing tool for PC

allnor@tele.ntnu.no (Rune Allnor) wrote in message news:<f56893ae.0411090156.14b74bd1@posting.google.com>...
> Hi all. 
> 
> For many years I've been using xfig under UNIX to draw quick sketches 
> and diagrams that were too complicated to draw directly in LaTeX.  
> Now my old and trusted UNIX box has done its duty, my sys op is very 
> clear in that he is not at all happy with me insiting on keeping the 
> old UNIX box up and running just to have access to xfig. 
> 
> So, do anybody know of something like xfig that works on the PC 
> under windows? It should be freeware and it should be easy to use. 
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help. 
> 
> Rune

you can run Xfig under cygwin I think it's even part of the standard install


-Lasse

Rune Allnor wrote:
> 
> For many years I've been using xfig under UNIX to draw quick sketches
> and diagrams that were too complicated to draw directly in LaTeX.
> Now my old and trusted UNIX box has done its duty, my sys op is very
> clear in that he is not at all happy with me insiting on keeping the
> old UNIX box up and running just to have access to xfig.
> 
> So, do anybody know of something like xfig that works on the PC
> under windows? It should be freeware and it should be easy to use.

Use Dia. It can produce png, jpeg, EPS and many other output formats. It is
originally a Unix program but has been ported to Win32.

 http://dia-installer.sourceforge.net/

-- 
   Ramakrishnan