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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label fig</title>
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<h3>Fig, a (La)TeX-friendly drawing package</h3>
<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.
<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.
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<dt><tt><i>xfig</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/xfig.zip">graphics/xfig</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/xfig.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/xfig/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>transfig</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/transfig.zip">graphics/transfig</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/transfig.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/transfig/">browse</a>)
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<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fig">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fig</a>
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