Re: Re[2]: Using Dia for book illustration

[Gerard Milmeister <gemi bluewin ch>]

On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 02:57, Alan G Isaac wrote:
>  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.
I just tried IPE. It does'nt look bad. However it has
limited arrow support and no editable bezier curves.
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