From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 23 10:28:21 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B6A31065670 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:28:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frankstaals@gmx.net) Received: from edu-smtp-02.edutel.nl (edu-smtp-02.edutel.nl [88.159.1.222]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 031798FC08 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:28:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frankstaals@gmx.net) Received: from Rena.FStaals.net (unknown [88.159.208.104]) by edu-smtp-02.edutel.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC57D120D15; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:28:19 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <49799BC3.8080909@gmx.net> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:28:19 +0100 From: Frank Staals User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: prad References: <20090122123734.615f79a1@gom.home> In-Reply-To: <20090122123734.615f79a1@gom.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: technical drawing program X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:28:21 -0000 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