On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 07:33:01PM +0200, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi > every body, > until now, I used xfig to draw my figures and graphs, but I am not > satisfied, specially when I want to no latin caracters or formula (like in > latex) > I tried inkscape it seems better ??? what about dia ??
Dia looks nice on screen, but its exported output (postscript etc.) is (or was?) awful. The fonts on screen might fit inside boxes, but would overflow them when you convert to a printable form. It's also far less capable than inkscape; I would only consider it if you need some of the specialised diagramming tools it provides that inkscape doesn't. Inkscape's postscript/PDF output are fine. The only glitch I saw was export of complex gradients to PDF, but I think that's fixed now. Personally, I'd go with inkscape. It's generally excellent. I now use it exclusively except for the occasional use of Xfig when I want pic output (for troff, when I don't want to write pic by hand). Its drawing model is nice, and as a previously heavy user of both Xfig and dia, I don't think I'm being too unbiased in saying that it's fairly clearly superior to both. The only exception with Xfig is its grid system (but you can define custom grids in inkscape) and object alignment (inkscape is better and more complex, but sometimes the simplistic Xfig way makes it easier to line things up). My only major beef with inkscape is that if you link to an image, it always defaults to an absolute path, and it's annoying to manually convert to relative. You need this if copying directory trees between different systems or else all your links become invalid. I've never put LaTeX formulae in any of the above; I would probably go with Xfig/eepic for that, or do the drawing directly in LaTeX. [but haven't tried either.] Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110920200729.gr3...@codelibre.net
