[Tuglist] Regarding figures

[Andreas Leitner]

On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 13:56, Dr. A. Ramakalyan, ICE/RECT wrote:
> Many thanks for the suggestions I received.
> I am 100% for installing Linux in my PC.  But, my institution runs
> on windows NT.  So, I cannot be isolated from the sheep herd at least
> for some more time.
> 
> Ramakalyan
> > On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 at 09:42, Dr. A. Ramakalyan, ICE/RECT wrote:
> > 
> >    I have been using Tex for quite some time both in UNIX and DOS
> >    platforms.  My work has lots of eqns. for which I am blessed with
> >    Tex. I also have lots of "block diagrams" which are a cake walk
> >    using xfig in Unix.  But I am totally deprived of any such
> >    facility on my PC.  Any suggestions on good (perhaps free)
> >    software for my MS windows PC that does exactly the same job as
> >    xfig?

I don't know xfig, but I use dia for my diagrams on unix, and IIRC 
there is a windows port for it. dia is able to produce all kinds of
output, one output format is eps...


hope this helps,
Andreas
PS: dia is quite similar to visio