Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 22:39:02 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> To: FreeBSD Ports Team <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: cad stuff Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903132232360.16593-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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For a couple of reasons, I'd sure like to see graphics/xfig and graphics/tgif, both technical drafting programs, move from being in graphics to being in cad. Graphics is crowded, and this hides both ports existence, where cad is nearly empty, and both of these *great* drawing programs are nearly invisible. For anyone who hasn't played with these for a while, and needed to draw a schematic or a a orthographic projection, well, you ought to look at these, because they've both grown WAY up. Xpaint is also a drawing program, but I am not asking to move it to cad. My reasoning is that xpaint tends towards being artistic, and gives the user more control over artistic values (like the clearly graphically oriented gimp or ImageMagick), while both tgif and xfig do straight lines best, and encourage modules and a drafting point of view (they don't have brushes, for instance). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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