Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:28:19 +0100 From: Frank Staals <frankstaals@gmx.net> To: prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: technical drawing program Message-ID: <49799BC3.8080909@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20090122123734.615f79a1@gom.home> References: <20090122123734.615f79a1@gom.home>
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prad wrote: > any recommendations? > i've tried dia and inkscape. the former seems to be good for flowcharts > and general diagrams while the latter is great for all sorts of things, > but i'd like to be able to do accurate geometric diagrams and was > wondering if something more appropriate is available. > > I'm not sure it fits what you are trying to achieve, but I do all my drawing-stuff in ipe (graphics/ipe ). All my documents are typesetted using LaTeX, ipe has build in LaTeX support for it's text formatting so for me it is an ideal program. It's a relatively simple editor so I'm not sure if it suffices your needs but you may give it a try. It's a shame the FreeBSD port's version is so old (6.0-pre23 while the current version is allready 6.0-pre31 (or even 6.0-pre32 I'm not sure) though. -- - Frank
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