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+<head>
+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label figetc</title>
+</head><body>
+<h3>(La)TeX-friendly drawing packages</h3>
+<p/><p/><i>(X)Fig</i> is a menu driven tool that allows you to
+draw objects on the screen of an X workstation; <i>transfig</i>
+is a set of tools which translate the code <i>fig</i>. The list
+of export formats is very long, and includes Metafont and MetaPost,
+Encapsulated PostScript and PDF, as well as combinations that wrap
+a graphics format in a LaTeX import file, which may include
+LaTeX commands to place text (compiled by LaTeX itself) as
+labels, etc., in the figures.
+<p/>There&rsquo;s no explicit port of <i>xfig</i> to windows (although it is
+believed to work under <i>cygwin</i> with their X-windows system).
+However, the program
+<a href="http://tech-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/applets/javafig/"><i>jfig</a></i>
+is thought by many to be an acceptable substitute, written in Java.
+<p/><i>Asymptote</i> is a widely-praised development of the MetaPost
+language, which can draw 2D or 3D diagrams, and can also label
+diagrams with LaTeX text; copious documentation is available via
+<a href="http://asymptote.sourceforge.net"><i>asymptote</a>&rsquo;s web site</i>.
+<dl>
+<dt><tt><i>asymptote</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/graphics/asymptote.zip">graphics/asymptote</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/graphics/asymptote/">browse the directory</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>xfig</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archivegraphics/xfig/">graphics/xfig/</a>
+<dt><tt><i>transfig</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/graphics/transfig.zip">graphics/transfig</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/graphics/transfig/">browse the directory</a>)
+</dl>
+<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=figetc">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=figetc</a>
+</body>