1xfig(1) General Commands Manual xfig(1)
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7 xfig - Facility for Interactive Generation of figures under X11
8 Version 3.2.8b
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11 xfig [options] [file]
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14 Xfig is a menu-driven tool that allows the user to draw and manipulate
15 objects interactively under the X Window System. It runs under X ver‐
16 sion 11 release 4 or higher and requires a two- or three-button mouse.
17 file specifies the name of a file to be edited. The objects in the
18 file will be read at the start of xfig.
19 The bulk of the documentation for xfig is in an HTML-based reference
21 guide. See the Help menu in xfig or point your browser at
22 /usr/share/doc/xfig/html/index.html. There are both English and Japa‐
23 nese versions.
24 When using a two-button mouse use the <Meta> key and the right button
26 at the same time to effect the action of the middle button.
27 Xfig is available from https://sourceforge.net/projects/mcj/.
29 The Fig2dev package is used when printing or exporting the output from
31 xfig. The fig2dev program is automatically called by xfig as a back-
32 end processor to produce various types of output:
33 LaTeX, Metafont, PDF, PostScript or Encapsulated PostScript, CGM and
35 EMF (mostyl used under Windows), tk (tcl/tk tool command language/tool
36 kit package), SVG, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, PPM, TIFF, XBM, XPM, Gerber,
37 AutoCAD Slide, IBM-GL (HP/GL), Pic and PiCTeX. For use with TeX/LaTeX:
38 box, epic, eepic, eepicemu, pict2e, pstricks, tikz.
39 See man fig2dev for all options.
41 The Fig2dev package is available from https://source‐
43 forge.net/projects/mcj/.
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46 -help
47 Print all command-line options for xfig and quit.
48 -a[llownegcoords]
50 Allow panning into the negative region of the canvas. This is
51 the default
52 -au[torefresh]
54 Make xfig look at the timestamp on the .fig file and automati‐
55 cally load it and display it every time it changes.
56 -bal[loon_delay] msec
58 Cause popup information balloons to be delayed by msec millisec‐
59 onds. The default is 500 milliseconds.
60 -bol[d] font
62 Cause the font used for displaying the file name and confirma‐
63 tion messages to be font (default = 8x13bold).
64 -butt[on] font
66 Cause the font used for most buttons to be font (default =
67 6x13).
68 -but_[per_row] number
70 Specify the number of buttons wide the mode panel should be.
71 This is useful in conjunction with the -pheight parameter to re‐
72 duce the canvas height for small screens.
73 -cbg color
75 Use color as the background color for the canvas. If you want
76 to set the background of everything in xfig (e.g. menus, etc.)
77 use the general -bg option.
78 -center
80 Set the print option to print the figure centered on the page.
81 This is the default.
82 -centim[ers]
84 Make centimeters the unit of choice. See also -metric.
85 -cfg color
87 Use color as the default color for objects. If you want to set
88 the foreground of everything in xfig (e.g. menus, etc.) use the
89 general -fg option.
90 -correct_font_size
92 Normally, fig2dev uses 1/80 inch for font size increments (for
93 historical reasons), instead of the more proper ``points'' (1/72
94 inch) that xfig uses. This option makes xfig call fig2dev with
95 the -F option to make it use points (1/72 inch).
96 -deb[ug]
98 Turn on debugging mode. Prints various debugging messages like
99 font names etc.
100 -dep[th]
102 Choose depth of visual desired. Your server must support the
103 desired visual and depth chosen. Use xdpyinfo to see what visu‐
104 als and depths are supported. See also the -visual option.
105 -donta[llownegcoords]
107 Don't allow panning into the negative region of the canvas. The
108 default is to allow panning in the negative region.
109 -dontshowb[alloons]
111 Prevents xfig from popping up the information balloons. See
112 also -showballoons.
113 -dontshowl[engths]
115 Don't show lengths of lines as they are being drawn. This is
116 the default.
117 -dontshowz[erolines]
119 Don't show axis zero lines on the canvas. The default is to
120 show them.
121 -dontsw[itchcmap]
123 Prevents xfig from switching to a private colormap if there
124 aren't enough colors available in the default colormap. See
125 also -max_image_colors.
126 -enc[oding] encoding
128 Encode character set using encoding when exporting LaTeX text.
129 The default is 1. This is used for the ISO-8859 encoding of
130 character sets. Allowed values are 0 (no encoding), 1
131 (ISO-8859-1) or 2 (ISO-8859-2).
132 -exportL[anguage] language
134 Specifies the default language to be used for when exporting a
135 fig file. Choices are:
136 Name Language
138 ---------------------------------------------------------------
139 Vector formats:
140 ps PostScript
141 eps Encapsulated PostScript
142 pdf PDF (Portable Document Format)
143 box LaTeX box (figure boundary)
144 latex LaTeX picture
145 pict2e LaTeX picture + pict2e macros
146 tikz LaTeX picture + tikz macros
147 epic LaTeX picture + epic macros
148 eepic LaTeX picture + eepic macros
149 eepicemu LaTeX picture + eepicemu macros
150 pstex Combined PS/LaTeX (both PS and LaTeX parts)
151 pdftex Combined PDF/LaTeX (both PDF and LaTeX parts)
152 pspdftex Combined PS/PDF/LaTeX (three parts)
153 pictex PiCTeX macros
154 cgm Computer Graphcis Meta file
155 emf Enhanced Meta file
156 dxf Drawing Interchange format
157 gbx Gerber (RS-247-X)
158 ibmgl HPGL/2 or IBMGL
159 textyl Textyl special commands
160 tpic TPIC
161 pic PIC
162 mf MF (MetaFont)
163 mp MP (MetaPost)
164 tk Tk (Tcl/Tk toolkit)
165 ptk Perl/Tk
166 shape LaTeX shape paragraph definition
167 svg SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
168 Bitmap formats:
170 gif GIF
171 jpeg JPEG (JFIF)
172 pcx PCX
173 png PNG
174 ppm PPM (portable pixmap package)
175 sld (AutoCad slide)
176 tiff TIFF
177 xbm X11 Bitmap
178 xpm X11 Pixmap
179 ---------------------------------------------------------------
180 -export_m[argin] width
183 Set the size of the border margin around the figure for export‐
184 ing to bitmap, PostScript, Encapsulated PostScript, or HTML MAP
185 formats. This is in units of points (1/72th inch). The default
186 is 0.
187 -fli[pvisualhints]
189 Flip left/right mouse indicator messages for mice whose buttons
190 have been switched. The default is to NOT flip the messages.
191 -flu[shleft]
193 Set the print option to print the figure flush left. The de‐
194 fault is to center the figure on the page.
195 -free[hand_resolution] resolution
197 Set the resolution of the freehand drawing mode to resolution
198 pixels. This is the number of pixels the mouse must move before
199 xfig adds another point to the object being drawn.
200 -geom[etry] [WxH][+X+Y]
202 You may use the -geometry option or resource to size and/or po‐
203 sition the xfig window, or you may use -pwidth and/or -pheight
204 to specify the canvas size in inches or centimeters. If you use
205 the -geom option to make the xfig window smaller than the de‐
206 fault, you may have to use the -but_per_row option to tell xfig
207 to put 3 or 4 buttons per row on the left mode panel.
208 -gh[ostscript] ghostscript executable
210 Specify the name or path to the ghostscript executable. The de‐
211 fault is gs. This is needed when importing PDF or Encapsulated
212 PostScript files. To disable calling ghostscript, set to the
213 empty string, -ghostscript "".
214 -grid_c[olor] color
216 Draw the grid on the canvas in this color (default: red).
217 -grid_u[nit] unit
219 Only used when in inches mode to choose between showing frac‐
220 tions or decimal inches in the rulers and grid. Any of the fol‐
221 lowing may be used to force decimal inches: "ten", "tenth", "10,
222 "1/10". If any other value is used for this option, the rulers
223 will show 1/16 inch divisions.
224 -hidd[entext]
226 Start xfig with the hidden text mode for text objects. The Hid‐
227 den attribute is used for figures that will be used with LaTeX
228 and is applicable only to the display of the document in xfig.
229 It means that the text itself is not shown onscreen, but only
230 the string ``<text>''. This is to keep long sequences of LaTeX
231 formatting commands from making the screen messy and hard to
232 read. The default for the Hidden flag is off.
233 -dontshowd[epthmanager]
235 Hide the depth manager panel. The default is to show the panel.
236 -icon_[view]
238 Show the library objects as icons. This is the default. The
239 other mode is -list_view.
240 -iconG[eometry] +X+Y
242 Specifies the position for the icon.
243 -im[age_editor] editor
245 Specify bitmap editor to use when ``Edit Image'' button is
246 pressed in Picture Object panel.
247 -inc[hes] (or-imperial)
249 Make inches the unit of choice. This is the default.
250 -ins[tallowncmap]
252 Install own colormap. Normally, xfig uses the current colormap.
253 -internalBW width
255 Use lines of width width between all buttons and panels (default
256 = 1).
257 -international
259 Switch on international support (mainly Japanese and Korean),
260 users of ISO Latin 1 (ISO-8859-1) probably should not use this,
261 therefore the international support is switched off by default
262 for locales using ISO-8859-1* codesets. For all other locales
263 this option is already used by default.
264 -jpeg[_quality] quality
266 Set the quality factor for exporting to the jpeg format. The
267 default is 75.
268 -k[eyFile] compose-key-file
270 Use compose-key-file instead of CompKeyDB for compose (meta) key
271 database. If there are no ``/''s in the name, the file must re‐
272 side in the xfig library directory, $XFIGLIBDIR, usually
273 /usr/local/lib/X11/xfig. If there are any ``/''s in the name it
274 is taken as is (not relative to $XFIGLIBDIR). If there is a
275 leading ``~/'' in the string then the ``~'' is expanded to the
276 user's home directory.
277 -lan[dscape]
279 Make xfig come up in landscape mode (10.5" x 8"). This is the
280 default; however as the orientation is stored with Fig files,
281 when you load a Fig file the orientation will change as re‐
282 quired. This is only true for files of version 3.0 or higher.
283 See also -portrait.
284 -lat[exfonts]
286 Start xfig with LaTeX font selection. Normally, the PostScript
287 fonts are available as the default. This flag selects the LaTeX
288 fonts to start.
289 -le[ft]
291 Change the position of the side panel window to the left of the
292 canvas window. This is the default.
293 -library_d[ir] directory
295 Specify directory where Fig object libraries are located. There
296 may be sub-directories there and sub-sub-directories, etc.
297 -library_i[con_size] size
299 Specify the size of the icons shown for library objects. The
300 default is 60 pixels, with the minimum being 40 and the maximum
301 being 120.
302 -lis[t_view]
304 Show the library objects as a list of names. The default mode is
305 -icon_view.
306 -mag[nification] mag
308 Set export and print magnification in %.
309 -max[_image_colors] numcols
311 Limit the number of colors used for imported images to numcols
312 (default 64).
313 -me[tric]
315 Make centimeters the unit of choice. The option -centimeters
316 may also be used.
317 After xfig is started you may change the units from metric to
319 imperial or vice versa from a popup menu available by pressing
320 mouse button 3 in the units box where the two rulers meet.
321 -mo[nochrome]
323 Use black and white only.
324 -mu[ltiple]
326 Sets multiple page mode for print or export. See also -single.
327 -noo[verlap]
329 When exporting in multiple page mode, causes no overlap from
330 page to page. This is the default. See also -overlap.
331 -nor[mal] font
333 Cause the font used for the message window to be font. This
334 font is also used on the canvas when the selected font is not
335 available in an X11 font (default = 6x13).
336 -nosc[alablefonts]
338 Disables use of the X11R5 or OpenWindows scalable fonts. You
339 might want to use this for debugging.
340 -nosp[lash]
342 Don't show the startup splash screen. The default is to show it
343 ( -splash ).
344 -not[rack]
346 Turn off cursor (mouse) tracking arrows.
347 -nowrite_bak
349 When saving a drawing into an existing .fig file xfig will first
350 rename that file by appending ".bak" to the name. This option
351 disables this feature.
352 -ov[erlap]
354 When exporting in multiple page mode, causes overlap from page
355 to page of about 10%. See also -nooverlap.
356 -pag[eborder] color
358 Draw the page border on the canvas in this color (default light
359 blue). The page border is turned on by the -showpageborder op‐
360 tion (resource Fig.showpageborder), and shows the edges of the
361 current export paper size.
362 -pap[er_size] size
364 Set the initial paper size for Export and Print. Choices are
365 Option Paper Size
367 ---------------------------------
368 letter Letter 8.5in x 11in
369 legal Legal 8.5in x 14in
370 tabloid Tabloid 17in x 11in
371 a ANSI A 8.5in x 11in
372 b ANSI B 11in x 17in
373 c ANSI C 17in x 22in
374 d ANSI D 22in x 34in
375 e ANSI E 34in x 44in
376 a9 ISO A9 37mm x 52mm
377 a8 ISO A8 52mm x 74mm
378 a7 ISO A7 74mm x 105mm
379 a6 ISO A6 105mm x 148mm
380 a5 ISO A5 148mm x 210mm
381 a4 ISO A4 210mm x 297mm
382 a3 ISO A3 297mm x 420mm
383 a2 ISO A2 420mm x 594mm
384 a1 ISO A1 594mm x 840mm
385 a0 ISO A0 840mm x 1189mm
386 b10 JIS B10 32mm x 45mm
387 b9 JIS B9 45mm x 64mm
388 b8 JIS B8 64mm x 91mm
389 b7 JIS B7 91mm x 128mm
390 b6 JIS B6 128mm x 182mm
391 b5 JIS B5 182mm x 257mm
392 b4 JIS B4 257mm x 364mm
393 b3 JIS B3 364mm x 515mm
394 b2 JIS B2 515mm x 728mm
395 b1 JIS B1 728mm x 1030mm
396 b0 JIS B0 1030mm x 1456mm
397 ---------------------------------
398 Note that this doesn't affect the size of the drawing canvas.
400 Use the -pheight and -pwidth options for that.
401 -ph[eight] height
403 Make the xfig canvas height high (where height is either cm or
404 in, depending on the -metric setting).
405 -po[rtrait]
407 Make xfig come up in portrait mode (8.5" x 9"). See note about
408 landscape mode.
409 -pw[idth] width
411 Make the xfig canvas width wide (where width is either cm or in,
412 depending on the -metric setting).
413 -righ[t]
415 Change the position of the side panel window to the right of the
416 canvas window (default: left).
417 -rigi[d]
419 Start xfig with the rigid text mode for text objects. The Rigid
420 attribute forces text to remain the same size even if inside a
421 compound object that is scaled up or down. The default is off.
422 -ru[lerthick]
424 Set the height(width) of the top(side) rulers in pixels. The
425 default (and minimum) is 24.
426 -scala[blefonts]
428 Allows use of the X11R5 or OpenWindows scalable fonts (this is
429 the default). If the scalable fonts aren't available xfig will
430 automatically switch to non-scaling fonts.
431 -scale_factor scale
433 Scale every figure read in by this value. This is useful in
434 conjunction with the -update option to do batch scaling of fig‐
435 ures.
436 -showa[llbuttons]
438 Show all the xfig indicator buttons instead of only those rele‐
439 vant to the current drawing mode. Normally, the buttons line
440 width, area-fill, grid mode, text size, etc. are only visible
441 when they are relevant to the current drawing mode. The
442 -showallbuttons option makes all of the indicator buttons visi‐
443 ble at all times. This takes up more screen real estate, but
444 allows the user to see all settable parameters.
445 -showb[alloons]
447 Forces xfig to pop up the information balloons when the mouse
448 passws over a button. This is the default. See also -dontshow‐
449 balloons .
450 -showd[epthmanager]
452 Show the depth manager panel. This panel lets one show or hide
453 objects at various depths. This is the default.
454 -showl[engths]
456 Makes xfig show the lengths of lines being drawn, in red text
457 near the line itself. Also, when points are moved or added. In
458 addition, imagine a triangle formed with the line segment as the
459 hypotenuse, and a vertical and horizontal line forming the other
460 two sides. These lines and their lengths are also drawn in red
461 as the point is moved or added. This mode is ignored when draw‐
462 ing in freehand mode.
463 This flag may be toggled by pressing <Meta>i (default).
464 -shown[ums]
466 With this option, xfig will draw all objects with a red number
467 next to each vertex. This is generally only useful for debug‐
468 ging.
469 -showp[ageborder]
471 Makes xfig show the border of the current paper size in the
472 color specified by the -pageborder option (default: light blue).
473 -showz[erolines]
475 Show axis zero lines on the canvas. This is the default
476 -si[ngle]
478 Sets single page mode for print or export. This is the default.
479 See also -multiple.
480 -sm[ooth_factor] factor
482 Enable smoothing when exporting to the bitmap formats (e.g. GIF,
483 PNG, etc.). The allowed values are 0 (no smoothing), 2 or 4
484 (most smoothing). This parameter is passed to ghostscript in
485 the -dTextAlphaBits -dGraphicsAlphaBits options to smooth the
486 figure.
487 -spec[ialtext]
489 Start xfig with the TeX text mode for text objects. This means
490 that characters that have a special meaning to TeX/LaTeX, e.g.,
491 '$' or '\', are not quoted but left untouched in the text
492 string. This is most useful for writing LaTeX equations. If
493 this flag is not set, then the backslash character '\' is
494 changed to the \backslash command, a brace '{' is turned into a
495 brace command \{, etc.
496 -spel[lcheckcommand] command
498 Use command for the external spell checking program when using
499 the spell check/search/replace popup. The string command should
500 include the string ``%s'' which is replaced by a temporary file‐
501 name. Default is ``spell %s''.
502 -spinner_d[elay] msec
504 The delay (in milliseconds) before the spinner will automati‐
505 cally count up or down when the button is pressed. Spinners are
506 the (numeric) text widgets with an up- and down-arrow, which
507 when clicked, cause the value to be incremented/decremented.
508 The default is 500 milliseconds.
509 -spinner_r[rate] msec
511 The rate (in milliseconds) at which the spinner will count when
512 the up- or down-arrow is pressed.
513 -startfi[llstyle] stylenumber
515 Set the starting fill style for area fill (-1 to 21).
516 -startfo[ntsize] pointsize
518 Set the default font size for text objects (default = 12pt).
519 -startg[ridmode] modenumber
521 Set the starting grid mode (0 to 3). Mode 0 is no grid. In im‐
522 perial (inches) mode, grid mode 1 is 1/4 inch, mode 2 is 1/2
523 inch and mode 3 is 1 inch. In metric mode, grid mode 1 is 2mm,
524 mode 2 is 5mm and mode 3 is 1cm.
525 -startla[texFont] font
527 Set the starting font name for LaTeX fonts.
528 -startli[newidth] width
530 Set the starting line width.
531 -startpo[snmode] modenumber
533 Set the starting point positioning mode (0 to 4) In imperial
534 (inches) mode, positioning mode 0 is ``any'', mode 1 is 1/16
535 inch, mode 2 is 1/4 inch, mode 3 is 1/2 inch and mode 4 is 1
536 inch. In metric mode, mode 0 is ``any'', mode 1 is 1mm, mode 2
537 is 5mm, mode 3 is 10mm and mode 4 is 20mm.
538 -startp[sFont] font
540 Set the starting font name for PostScript fonts.
541 -startt[extstep] stepsize
543 Set the starting text step.
544 -ta[blet]
546 Specifies that xfig should use the input tablet instead of the
547 mouse for drawing. You must have the XInputExtension in your X
548 server and an input tablet for this to work. Also, you must
549 modify the Imakefile to include the USETAB and TABLIB variables.
550 -track
552 Turn on cursor (mouse) tracking arrows (default).
553 -tran[sparent_color] color_number
555 Make the transparent color for GIF export color_number. This
556 number is the color number according to the xfig color panel,
557 starting at 0 (black) and ending at 31 (gold), or may be a user-
558 defined color number, which is 32 or higher.
559 -update file [ file ... ]
561 Run xfig in an "update" mode, where it will read each Fig file
562 specified on the command line and write it out to the original
563 file, in the current file format for the version of xfig being
564 run. The original Fig file will be preserved with the suffix
565 .bak attached to the name.
566 In this mode, xfig doesn't connect the X server, so no window is
567 opened, and it exits when finished.
568 -users[cale] scale
570 Set the multiplier for displayed line lengths etc. This factor
571 is multiplied by the actual length, radius or diameter of the
572 object currently being drawn on the canvas. It is useful for
573 making scale drawings, where e.g. 1 inch = 1 foot (userscale =
574 12.0) or 1cm = 1m (userscale = 100.0).
575 -useru[nit] units
577 The units string is printed with the length information when
578 drawing objects. For example if the userscale = 1.0 and the
579 userunit = ft then a line which is 3 inches long on the canvas
580 would be displayed as ``length = 3 ft'' when it is being drawn.
581 After xfig is started you may change the userscale and the
583 userunit from a popup menu available by pressing mouse button 3
584 in the units box where the two rulers meet.
585 -visual visualname
587 Use visualname as the visual for xfig. The names are TrueColor
588 (case is not important), StaticColor, DirectColor, StaticGray,
589 GrayScale and PseudoColor. xfig uses the default visual unless
590 this is specified. Your server must support the desired visual.
591 Use xdpyinfo to see what visuals and depths are supported. See
592 also the -depth option.
593 -write_bak
595 When saving a drawing into an existing .fig file xfig will first
596 rename that file by appending
597 -zoom zoomscale
599 Set the starting zoom scale.
600
604 The overall widget name(Class) is xfig(Fig). These resources corre‐
605 spond to the command line arguments:
606 Name Type Default Command-line equivalent
608 -------------------------------------------------------------------
609 allownegcoords boolean true -allownegcoords (true),
610 -dontallownegcoords (false)
611 autorefresh boolean false -autorefresh
612 axislines string pink -axislines
613 balloon_delay integer 500 (ms) -balloon_delay
614 boldFont string 8x13bold -bold
615 but_per_row integer 2 -but_per_row
616 buttonFont string 6x13 -button
617 canvasbackground string white -cbg
618 canvasforeground string black -cfg
619 correctfontsize boolean false -correctfontsize
620 debug boolean false -debug
621 depth integer * -depth
622 dontswitchcmap boolean false -dontswitchcmap
623 euc_encoding boolean false (n/a)
624 locale_encoding boolean false (n/a)
625 encoding integer 1 -encoding
626 save8bit boolean false (n/a)
627 exportLanguage string eps -exportLanguage
628 export_margin integer 0 -export_margin
629 flipvisualhints boolean false -flipvisualhints
630 flushleft boolean false -flushleft (true),
631 -center (false)
632 freehand_resolution integer 25 -freehand_resolution
633 grid_color string black -grid_color
634 grid_unit string 1/16 (inch) -grid_unit
635 0.1 (metric)
636 hiddentext boolean false -hiddentext
637 icon_view boolean true -icon_view (true),
638 -list_view (false)
639 image_editor string xv -image_editor
640 inches boolean true -inches (true),
641 -imperial (true),
642 -centimeters (false),
643 -metric (false)
644 installowncmap boolean false -installowncmap
645 internalborderwidth integer 1 -internalBW
646 international boolean false -international
647 jpeg_quality integer 75 -jpeg_quality
648 justify boolean false -left (false),
649 -right (true)
650 keyFile string CompKeyDB -keyFile
651 landscape boolean true -Landscape (true),
652 -landscape (true),
653 -Portrait (false),
654 -portrait (false)
655 latexfonts boolean false -latexfonts
656 library_dir string ~/xfiglib -library_dir
657 magnification float 100 -magnification
658 max_image_colors integer 64 -max_image_colors
659 monochrome boolean false -monochrome
660 multiple boolean false -multiple
661 normalFont string 6x13 -normal
662 overlap boolean true -overlap (true),
663 -nooverlap (false)
664 pageborder string lightblue -pageborder
665 paper_size string Letter (inch) -paper_size
666 A4 (metric)
667 pheight float 8.5 (landscape) -pheight
668 9.5 (portrait)
669 pwidth float 11 (landscape) -pwidth
670 8.5 (portrait)
671 rigidtext boolean false -rigid (true)
672 rulerthick integer 24 -rulerthick
673 scalablefonts boolean true -scalablefonts (true),
674 -noscalablefonts (false)
675 scale_factor float 1.0 -scale_factor
676 showallbuttons boolean false -showallbuttons
677 showaxislines boolean true -showaxislines (true),
678 -dontshowaxislines (false)
679 showballoons boolean true -showballoons (true),
680 -dontshowballoons (false)
681 showdepthmanager boolean true -showdepthmanager (true),
682 -dontshowdepthmanager (false)
683 showlengths boolean false -showlengths (true),
684 -dontshowlengths (false)
685 shownums boolean false -shownums (true),
686 -dontshownums (false)
687 showpageborder boolean true -showpageborder (true),
688 -dontshowpageborder (false)
689 single boolean true -single
690 smooth_factor integer 0 -smooth_factor
691 specialtext boolean false -specialtext
692 splash boolean true -splash (true),
693 -nosplash (false)
694 spellcheckcommand string spell %s -spellcheckcommand
695 spinner_delay integer 500 (ms) -spinner_delay
696 spinner_rate integer 100 (ms) -spinner_rate
697 startfillstyle integer 0 -startfillstyle
698 startfontsize float 12 -startfontsize
699 startgridmode integer 0 -startgridmode
700 startlatexFont string Default -startlatexFont
701 startlinewidth integer 1 -startlinewidth
702 startposnmode integer 1 -startposnmode
703 startpsFont string Times-Roman -startpsFont
704 starttextstep float 1.2 -starttextstep
705 tablet boolean false -track,
706 trackCursor boolean true -track (true),
707 -notrack (false)
708 transparent_color integer -2 (none) -transparent_color
709 userscale float 1.0 -userscale
710 userunit string in (inches) -userunit
711 cm (metric)
712 visual string * -visual
713 write_bak boolean true -write_bak
714 zoom float 1.0 -zoom
715 * Default visual and depth depend on the X server. Use xdpyinfo
717 to see what visuals and depths are supported.
718 -------------------------------------------------------------------
719
722 Please send bug reports, fixes, new features etc. to:
723 thomas.loimer@tuwien.ac.at
724 Because of the difference of some fonts in some X servers and the Post‐
726 Script fonts on printers, text alignment can be problematic.
727 Not all operations employ smart redrawing of objects which are altered
729 as a by product of the operation. You may need to use Redraw in these
730 cases.
731 If the image is panned or the xfig window iconified and de-iconified
733 during the middle of an operation (e.g. while drawing a line), the pic‐
734 ture will be distorted. This can be corrected using Redraw after the
735 operation is complete.
736 When zoomed very large, the length of dashes in dashed lines will top
738 out at 255 pixels long. This is due to a restriction in X that the
739 dash list is defined by char (255 pixels maximum for a dash). The fig‐
740 ure will print correctly, however.
741 When you do a copy/rotate with multiple copies, only the creation of
743 the last object can be undone with the Undo button.
744 Modifications to text using the popup search/update/replace/spell check
746 panel cannot be undone.
747
749 fig2dev(1) (Fig2dev package)
750 gs(1) (Ghostscript PostScript previewer)
752
754 (From the original author, Supoj Sutanthavibul): Many thanks goes to
755 Professor Donald E. Fussell who inspired the creation of this tool.
756 (From Brian Smith): Thanks to all the users who have contributed to
758 xfig, especially Paul King who, besides adding many features, revamped
759 the look and feel which became version 2.1.
760
762 Original Copyright (c) 1985 by Supoj Sutanthavibul
763 Parts Copyright (c) 1989-2015 by Brian V. Smith
764 Parts Copyright (c) 1991 by Paul King
765 Parts Copyright (c) 2016-2018 by Thomas Loimer
766 Other Copyrights may be found in various files
767 Any party obtaining a copy of these files is granted, free of charge, a
770 full and unrestricted irrevocable, world-wide, paid up, royalty-free,
771 nonexclusive right and license to deal in this software and documenta‐
772 tion files (the "Software"), including without limitation the rights to
773 use, copy, modify, merge, publish and/or distribute copies of the Soft‐
774 ware, and to permit persons who receive copies from any such party to
775 do so, with the only requirement being that this copyright notice re‐
776 main intact.
777 THE AUTHORS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, IN‐
779 CLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO
780 EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSE‐
781 QUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE,
782 DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER
783 TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PER‐
784 FORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
785 PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
788 Parts Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.
790 Copyright notice for pbmplus code:
791 Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
793 software and its documentation for any purpose and without
794 fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright
795 notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright
796 notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
797 documentation. This software is provided ``as is'' without
798 express or implied warranty.
799
801 /usr/share/xfig/CompKeyDB
802 Data base of compose (meta) key sequences for 8-bit characters.
803 A different file may be specified with the command line option
804 -keyFile or X toolkit resource keyFile.
805 /usr/share/doc/xfig/html
807 This directory contains the html documentation.
808 /usr/share/doc/xfig/FORMAT3.2
810 Description of Fig file format.
811 /usr/share/xfig/Libraries
813 This directory contains libraries of Fig objects such as elec‐
814 trical symbols, logic symbols, etc.
815 /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Fig
817 Application defaults file.
818 /usr/share/applications/xfig.desktop
820 Desktop entry file.
821 /usr/share/pixmaps/xfig.png
823 Desktop icon.
824
827 Many people have contributed to xfig. Here is a list of the people who
828 have contributed the most (in chronological order):
829 Version 1:
831 Original author:
834 Supoj Sutanthavibul, University of Texas at Austin
835 The LaTeX line drawing modes were contributed by:
837 Frank Schmuck, Cornell University
838 Original X11 port by:
840 Ken Yap, Rochester
841 Variable window sizes, cleanup of X11 port, right hand side panel:
843 Dana Chee, Bellcore
844 Cleanup of color port to X11 by:
846 John T. Kohl, MIT
847 Version 2.0:
849 Area fill, multiple line thicknesses, multiple fonts and font
852 sizes, bottom panel, line style/thickness, (and anything else that
853 wasn't written by the others) by:
854 Brian Smith
855 (standard disclaimer applies)
856 (bvsmith@lbl.gov)
857 Popup change-object menu by:
859 Jon Tombs
860 Frank Schmuck
861 Zooming and panning functions, shift key select mechanism by:
863 Dieter Pellkofer
864 Henning Spruth
865 Depth feature by:
867 Mike Lutz
868 Cut/Paste by:
870 Tom Tkacik
871 Version 2.1:
873 Indicator panel, file menu popup, print menu popup, panning with
876 rulers, mouse function window, regular polygon, rubberbanding of
877 circles/ellipses, filled splines on canvas, dashed/dotted splines
878 on canvas, update button, arbitrary angle rotation of objects,
879 alignment in compound, object scaling, constrained copy/move, cor‐
880 ner markers for compound, context sensitive corner markers, smarter
881 redraw, undo for compound and point move for boxes, cancel object
882 creation, point positioning to three resolutions, TransFig scalable
883 text, hidden text, special text, save of figure on crash by:
884 Paul King (king@cs.uq.oz.au)
886 with help from:
887 Brian Smith and Micah Beck (beck@cs.utk.edu)
888 Encapsulated PostScript importing by:
890 Brian Boyter
891 Pan/zoom with ctrl key/mouse by:
893 Henning Spruth
894 International characters by:
896 Herve Soulard
897 Directory Browser based on XDir by:
899 Win Treese, Digital Equipment Corporation
900 Rotated ellipses by:
902 James Tough, Dept. of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University,
903 Scotland
904 Rotated text from the xvertext package by:
906 Alan Richardson, Space Science Centre, School of MAPS, University
907 of Sussex
908 Popup scale menu and dynamic switching between inches and cm by:
910 Paul King (king@cs.uq.oz.au)
911 Extensive man page formatting revisions by:
913 David W. Sanderson
914 Display Postscript code for IBM RS/6000 by:
916 Dave Hale (dhale@green.mines.colorado.edu)
917 Version 3.0:
919 New arrowhead types, separate pen/fill colors, new file protocol,
922 more colors with extended color popup panel, new arc style, new
923 fill patterns (bricks, etc), new line join and cap styles, export
924 offset and file load offset, XPM import, XBM import and export (and
925 anything else that wasn't written by the others) by:
926 Brian Smith
927 (Note: the color popup panel was based on xcoloredit by Richard
928 Hesketh)
929 GIF header reading code by:
932 David Koblas from the giftoppm part of the pbmplus package
933 XPM export code (using XPM3 libraries) by:
935 Karel van Houten (K.H.C.vanHouten@research.ptt.nl)
936 Higher figure resolution (1200dpi) by:
938 Ross Martin (martin@trcsun3.eas.asu.edu)
939 Color quantization using neural network by:
941 Anthony Dekker (dekker@ACM.org)
942 [NEUQUANT Neural-Net quantization algorithm by Anthony Dekker,
943 1994. See ``Kohonen neural networks for optimal colour quantiza‐
944 tion'' in ``Network: Computation in Neural Systems'' Vol. 5 (1994)
945 pp 351-367. for a discussion of the algorithm.]
946 Floyd-Steinberg algorithm for dithering color images on monochrome
948 displays lifted from the Pbmplus package by Jef Poskanser.
949 rotate/flip objects around/about selected anchor point and multiple
951 copies of objects by:
952 Uwe Bonnes (bon@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de)
953 Input tablet extension by:
955 Greg LaCoste (greg@seismo.do.usbr.gov)
956 Version 3.1:
958 The only difference between protocol version 3.0 and version 3.1 is
961 that the position of the ``magnet'' has been shifted by 14 fig
962 units. In the 2.1 and older versions of xfig the grid was in mul‐
963 tiples of 5 fig units, but they were on intervals 4, 9, 14, 19,
964 etc. When version 3.0 was created, coordinates were simply multi‐
965 plied by the ratio of the resolutions (1200/80 = 15) so values like
966 4 became 60 instead of 74 ((4+1)*15 - 1).
967 The JPEG import/export code uses the Independent JPEG Group soft‐
969 ware (see jpeg/README for details)
970 Image browser, editor and screen capture features by:
972 Jim Daley (jdaley@cix.compulink.co.uk)
973 Version 3.2:
975 The changes to the version 3.2 file protocol are the addition of
978 the paper size, print/export magnification, single/multiple page
979 indicator and a transparent color name used for GIF export to the
980 header of the file.
981 The other difference in the version 3.2 protocol is the mathemati‐
982 cal model used for splines. The new version uses X-splines which
983 allows the user to mix interpolation and approximation points in a
984 same curve. More precisely, it means that an X-spline curve is nei‐
985 ther an interpolated spline nor an approximated one, it is BOTH
986 (the behaviour of each point is controlled by one single parameter
987 called ``shape factor''). For additional information about X-
988 splines, see:
989 "X-Splines: A Spline Model Designed for the End User"
991 by C. Blanc and C. Schlick, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH'95
992 http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~schlick/DOC/sig1.html
993 Caveat: Because previous spline models (quadratic B-splines and
995 Bezier with hidden points) are no longer supported, curves that are
996 present in version 3.1 and older files are automatically converted
997 to X-splines. This translation is only an approximation process.
998 It means that the converted curves are not exactly the same as the
999 original ones. Though they are usually very close, some hand-fit‐
1000 ting may be needed in some pathological cases.
1001 Inclusion of X-splines by:
1003 Carole Blanc (blanc@labri.u-bordeaux.fr)
1004 Christophe Schlick (schlick@labri.u-bordeaux.fr)
1005 Note: the initial implementation was done by C. Feuille, S. Gros‐
1006 bois, L. Maziere and L. Minihot as a student practice (Universite
1007 Bordeaux, France).
1008 Open/close compound feature written by
1010 Bill Taylor (bill@mainstream.com)
1011 Library feature written by
1013 Stephane Mancini (mancini@elecsrv.enst.fr) (object preview by Brian
1014 V. Smith)
1015 The library objects in the Electrical and Logic libraries were done
1017 by
1018 Peter Hiscocks (phiscock@ee.ryerson.ca)
1019 The library objects in the Computer, Networks, and Hospital-Equip‐
1021 ment libraries were extracted from the clipart example files by
1022 Bill Chimiak (chim@bgsm.edu)
1023 Version 3.2.3 and newer:
1026 Please see the CHANGES file for credits for newer releases.
1029
1031 Many bug fixes/cleanups etc. by a host of faithful users.
1032 See the CHANGES file for all the credits.
1034 The Fig2dev package was written by Micah Beck and is maintained by
1036 Thomas Loimer.
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