A
freeware graphics authoring package for most versions of
Unix (including
Linux). It is at
version 4.1 and is available at:
http://bourbon.cs.umd.edu:8001/tgif/index.html
This package is great, and I can personally attest to its ability to help one produce professional-looking drawings and/or presentations.
Some of the great features that Tgif boasts:
- Everything is an object, and can be dragged around, cut/pasted, grouped, etc.
- All objects can be selected and have their line thickness, line color, background color/pattern, arrow style, changed.
- Tear-off menus
- Great zoom effects
- Print to printer, Postscript, and FrameMaker formats
- Drawings are saved in a ".obj" format, which means they don't take up much disk space, and one can edit these with a word processor, or output these files from other programs.
One of the
disadvantages is no easy way to output
gif or
jpeg (you must use other
translation programs for this). Also, I have not
found a
Windows version.