dia - Diagram editor ipe - drawing editor for creating figures in PDF or PS formats kchart - a chart drawing program for the KDE Office Suite kivio - a flowcharting program for the KDE Office Suite paje.app - generic visualization tool (Gantt chart and more) rlplot - Generate publication quality graphs xfig-libs - XFig image libraries and examples
msc - Generates simple ASCII message sequence charts textdraw - Tool to draw/modify/move geometric figures & text for ASCII art
planner - project management application opensched - Tool for project management
pload - Program to monitor network device statistics wmpload - Program to monitor network device statistics bandwidthd - Tracks usage of TCP/IP and builds html files with graphs bandwidthd-pgsql - Tracks usage of TCP/IP and builds html files with graphs spong-www - A systems and network monitoring system -- web interface vipec - Network analyzer for electrical networks
bootchart - Boot process performance analyser bootchart-view - Boot process performance analyser (visualisation)
libkst1 - Libraries for the kst application for displaying scientific data
spacechart - Star map viewer and navigator astrolog - Customizable astrology chart calculation program
gnumed-snellen - [Med] Tool to emulate a Snellen chart onscreen
xfig is a graphics editor. The current version (3.2.4-beta4) can produce files in various formats (postscript, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, etc). It can edit FIG files, and can load in EPS, JPEG files (etc).
See the xfig Users Manual for details. A Guide to using xfig is of particular use to people drawing circuit diagrams. Both these documents are available from xfig's help menu.
/usr/share/doc/xfig/xfig-howto.pdf
The xfig hints and tips document details some of the less obvious features. See the associated software page for conversion programs, etc. pstoedit, which converts postscript files into FIG files, is installed.
Contents
First Time Users o Short cuts
Layers
Grouping and Alignment
Smart Links
Importing, exporting, screendumps and LATEX
Tim Love 2000-07-27
If you're drawing a block diagram and decide to move a box, xfig can move the links attached to the box too. This facility, called smart links, is controlled by a box that appears when move or copy is chosen. It works with polylines (not splines).
Which one is suitable for my flow-chart diagram.
Everything can be placed and remembered, but does not survive through modification. I.e., if you change anything, then all the placement of items connecting to it will get forgotten. E.g., if you change a node's text, then all edges that connected to it will be automatically re-placed, and so are the the texts that associated with the edges.
Hence, if you don't like where tcm place things, it will be a nightmare to maintain the diagram. Further, the tcm is really not good at placing things, e.g., the edge text are placed over the edge, which 99% of time looks bad.
Nuisance:
Not intuitive UI
No multi-line text
Nuisance:
iterms are too big. Need to scale to about 200% to have a bit realistic-sized view
Can't draw reasonably-sized graph. Put 4 boxes and it is over the page width. Fonts already at 0.4, but there is no way to make the gap between text and box smaller. Make the graph looks rater silly.
Nuisance:
requires koffice-data koffice-libs
produces lots of garbage info in the xterm that lauches it
way too few pre-defined shapes, even don't have rounded boxes.
most important, the stencil can only be straight line!
the arrow head of straight line looks stupidly big
once draw, the lines are be barely selectable. moving it is even much harder. Cost me over 4 hours for very simple graph.
when exporting (to png/eps), a strange bug causes a big blank area on the left of the image, even I've select crop. Copy and paste to a new graph won't help.
