Re[2]: Using Dia for book illustration

[Alan G Isaac <aisaac american edu>]

 On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Gerard Milmeister wrote:
> I am the coauthor of the book "Comprehensive Mathematics for
> Computer Scientists" that will appear by the end April
> at Springer Verlag.
> We tried to use only open-source software to create the book,
> i.e., LaTeX2e ... I created some 70+ illustration, and Dia
> was the only open-source program adequate for this task.


I also use Dia roughly this way for its good PostScript
support, so I'd also like to see it continue to evolve more
general drawing support.

Anyway, perhaps IPE <URL:http://ipe.compgeom.org/> would
sometimes be useful to you.  I have heard good things
about it.

fwiw,
Alan Isaac