On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Steve Simon <st...@quintile.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to try to get something  running which
> would allow me to draw pic documents in a WYSIWYG style
> I have a load of rather complex drawings to do.
>
> The obvious candidates (it seems to me) are:
>
>        art (from the 2nd edition), though Andrey did stirling work
>        porting it to the draw model years ago I honestly don't feel it
>        up to the job - perhaps my lack of stamina?
>
>        cip/xcip - this is part of the blit distribution and xcip is
>        avaialable on the net these days. I have a vague memory that
>        someone got this to run on a modern OS - plan9/X11 perhaps?
>        anyone know more?
>
>        picasso - this would be x11 only and was in the later DWB
>        distributions but I seen no sign of any source for it anywhere.
>        anyone have the code which I could copy?
>
>        xfig + transfig - feels a bit like a patch on a patch and, being
>        modern unix code would (no doubt) include configure hell...
>
>        MS windows + visio, print to a file and include it as postscript
>        into my troff doc - feels like gining in.
>
> Thnaks for any help/advice.
>
> -Steve
>
>

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