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Questions tagged [xfig]

xfig is a vector graphics editor

Xfig is a vector graphics editor. It only understands its proprietary text-based format, but can export to various formats including SVG, EMF, EPS and PDF. It can be combined with (La)TeX to mix text typeset with TeX and images drawn in xfig.

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Larger "xterm" fonts on HIDPI displays

After several years of happily using different terminal emulators like Konsole, Gnome-TERMINAL, and lately XFCE Terminal in their appropriate desktop environments, I decided to use good old xterm with its bitmap fonts. It works just fine, it…
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How to use Xfig on high DPI screen?

On a high DPI screen, lines in Xfig are very thin. Is it possible to scale the lines, or the entire Xfig UI? Note that I don't want to scale the entire desktop. Other application UIs are legible on high DPI screens. Perhaps a Wayland compositor can…
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Drawing a straight line with Pinta

I'm trying to superimpose a straight line onto a .png image. GIMP is notoriously impossible to use for simple things, so people have suggested Pinta. However, as far as I can tell, the only lines you can draw with this program are freeform ones,…
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Legacy Xorg fonts.alias matching does not work anymore

I have # xset -q [...] Font-Path: /usr/share/fonts/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/TTF/,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,built-ins [...] and for example a /usr/share/fonts/misc/fonts.alias, that defines "fixed": (cd /usr/share/fonts; grep '^fixed'…
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How to use special characters in xfig

I am trying to write special characters in xfig. I am putting character code within $ sign, as normally done in latex $x_1$ or $\mu$ or $\sigma$ I tried setting Text Flags, Special Flag = Special, but it didn't helped. When I export the file in…
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