I need some volunteers to beta-test for me

[Jonas Gomes]

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Hi Herbert,

Currently I use Corel Draw to make vector graphics, then
I export it as an eps file and I preview it on dviwindo (the
low resolution bit map of the file header).

I could get a copy of your program in order to test it.

Jonas

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From: Techsupport-owner at yandy.com [mailto:Techsupport-owner at yandy.com]
On Behalf Of Herbert Gintis
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 10:10 AM
To: Techsupport at yandy.com
Subject: I need some volunteers to beta-test for me


Dear Y and Y'ers,
        A few months back people on this list asked whether there is a
what-you-see-is-what-you-get program for designing figures in TeX and
LaTeX. The short answer was "no". PSTricks is great, but you have to
design on paper, and you can't preview the results until you generate
the ps or pdf file.
        Well, I wrote such a program a couple of years ago for Windows,
for my own use in mathematical model building and agent-based simulation
(I used it for two books and many articles in economics, biology,
sociology, and anthropology).
        I'm just finishing a rough public version for beta-testing, and
I'd like some volunteers who might find the program useful, to test it
for me.
        My first round of beta-testers should be Y and Y users, since
that's the platform on which I developed it. It should work on any LaTeX
system, but I'd rather test it on Y and Y first, for obvious reasons (it
will also work with plain TeX, but I haven't written the macros for this
yet).
        The program produces circles, ellipses, lines, bezier curves,
arrows, vectors, dotted and dashed version of the above, and integrates
text with the figures. The result can be viewed in DVIWINDO. The program
allows you to expand, contract, resize, rotate, and move objects, as
well as link and unlink objects and save reusable objects in a
repository. There are also help files for installation and use (though
it is still a bit thin...).

Best,

Herbert Gintis



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