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Welcome to Andreas Schmidt’s

WinFIG Home Page

A structured drawing tool for Windows that can read and write Xfig files.

WinFIG is based on my earlier Amiga program called AmiFIG. The intention is not just to copy or clone Xfig. The file format and rendering will be as close to Xfig as possible, but the program will take advantage of Windows features like clipboard, printer preview, multiple documents etc. And I feel free to include any improvement that comes into my mind, so don’t complain if the look&feel is not identical to Xfig or if things work differently. It will never be. The handling was changed to support a 2-button mouse. …and btw I think that is much more usable.

I did not yet include all the features I have in mind and there may be bugs, but it is already functional and can give you a good impression of what it will become. So enjoy and have fun.

Features include:

Compose drawings using ellipses, circles, polygons, splines, arcs, arrows, images, text objects

Draw solid, dashed or dotted lines with miter, round or beveled joins

Use colors and patterns

Manipulate your drawings by moving, stretching, flipping, aligning

Create compound objects

Arrange objects in different layers to control the order in which they overlap

Use grid and magnet and constraints for geometry (e.g. to create LaTeX compatible lines only)

Export to CGM, EMF, epic, GIF, HPGL, JPEG, LaTeX, MetaFont, MetaPost, PCX, PDF, PNG, (Encapsulated)PostScript, pstex, tk, SVG and others

Screenshots

View the main window, the export dialog or the new library dialog.

Version 1.5 (24-January 2005)

Changes:

rewritten to use GDI-Plus for rendering graphics

better graphical implementation of dashed arcs with line thickness > 1

user can add his own colors to the palette

fig2dev now tries calling GhostScript by reading the installation location from the registry. Adding the GhostScript installation directory to the "PATH" environment variable is not necessary anymore.

registration fee for Dollar payment raised to USD 25,00 due to continuing weakness of Dollar

Bug fixes:

Under certain conditions thin dashed and dotted lines and splines were drawn in background color and thus not visible.

Version 1.42 (8-August 2004)

Bug fixes:

Under certain conditions thin dashed and dotted lines and splines were drawn in background color and thus not visible.

Version 1.41 (25-July 2004)

Bug fixes:

WinFIG could crash when reading files where the font of text objects was set to –1. It seems some older Xfig version set it to –1 when using the default font for a text object.

Version 1.4 (18-July 2004)

Changes:

The object library is now available. See the readme.txt for how to fill it with objects

regular polygons with variable number of sides

Bug fixes:

resizing objects or drawing polylines could leave pixel trash on the canvas

tagging objects for compounds using shift-select required more than one clicks to mark the first object

After selecting "rotate", "flip" or "compound" the user had to click on the canvas first to be able to use the functions that require the "shift" key, like setting the rotation center with shift + left mouse button. The window now automatically receives the focus and will recognize if shift is pressed without clicking on the canvas first.

What is missing

better font support

rulers

a lot of other things

Prerequisites

Windows 95 or higher

The set of PostScript fonts that is used by Xfig or some equivalent TrueType fonts. Some of the fonts are already installed e.g. if you have MS Office. I think I will have to include a configuration file that allows defining the mapping to windows fonts.

Download

For version 1.5 download WinFIG15.zip (1.42 MB)

For version 1.42 download WinFIG142.zip (544 KB)

Documentation

Read the FAQ or the readme.txt. For a history of previous releases see history.txt

Related pages

The Xfig home page at www.xfig.org

A fairly comprehensive summary of Xfig resources at duke.usask.ca/~macphed/soft/fig

Check www.pstoedit.net/pstoedit for the pstoedit tool, which can create FIG files from various other formats

WinFIG uses the CImage class for importing bitmap files

GhostScript and a nice graphical font-end called GSView are available here

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