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- This the famous fig program, ported to X11. I have ported version 1.4
- with patches for LaTeX line drawing by Frank Schmuck of Cornell.
-
- I only added code to it, which means this is a derivative work, so you
- have to stick to the terms of redistribution of the SunView version.
- The copyright belongs to Supoj Sutanthavibul, but the source code for
- fig (the SunView only version) has been freely available to everyone
- for a long time. In particular, it has been available for ftp from
- sally.utexas.edu and is also stored in the Sun-Spots archive.
- Therefore, I presume that you may also freely redistribute xfig source
- code and you should *at least* not remove the copyright notice and not
- try to make money selling it. Naturally, everything is provided as is
- and the user bears all risks of using this software. Disclaimer: I am
- not a lawyer so none of what I say may have any legal weight.
-
- I have chosen to retain compatibility with the SunView version, mainly
- for sanity; so that I know I haven't changed the modus operandi of the
- program. You can compile for SunView simply by editing two lines in
- the Makefile. You may have to change the paths a little.
-
- Updating the ruler arrows slows down xfig noticeably. You might want to
- optimize the code or make this feature an command line option.
-
- I know there are things that aren't quite right with the program, I
- don't have time to fix them properly now. There are some quirks with
- the behaviour of xfig. Lots of error returns that should be checked
- are not.
-
- I will gratefully receive bug reports and tune ups but I'm not
- interested in taking up maintenance in the long run. (I have to finish
- a thesis.) In particular reports of little-endian machine versions and
- weird machines (not Sun or Vax) are interesting to me.
-
- If you send me bug reports they will probably sit in my mailbox until I
- have the time to install them locally. Then it may be some time before
- I post a new version. So it will be best if you also posted your fixes
- to some public place. As for coordinating and merging fixes, well that
- will have to happen by anarchy unless somebody volunteers to be the
- grundge.
-
- Please keep the history and version numbers up to date.
-
- The fig2latex translator and friends are part of the transfig package
- from Cornell and at the time of writing, were available by ftp from
- svax.cs.cornell.edu.
-
- Ken Yap (ken@cs.rochester.edu)
- July 1988
-
- History:
-
- xfig 1.4.1:
-
- 14 Jul 88 Ken Yap (University of Rochester)
- Ported to X11. Alpha release.
-
- 31 Jul 88 Ken Yap (University of Rochester)
- Works practically like SunView version now. Beta release.
-
- 8 Aug 88 Ken Yap (University of Rochester)
- Dana Chee of Bellcore contributed lots of cleanups
- and put right some features I didn't know how
- to do properly. (Thanks, Dana.) Released to world.
-
- xfig 1.4.2:
-
- 23 Aug 88 Dana Chee (Bellcore)
- Fixed color, added mouse tracking option.
-
- xfig 1.4.3:
-
- 26 Aug 88 Dana Chee (Bellcore)
- Added John Kohl's changes to fix color and make
- inverse video work on a monochrome display.
- Allow scaling of compound objects on a side as well as
- a corner.
- Allow compound objects within a compound.
-
-