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About AmiFIG 2.4
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Copyright
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This software is shareware. It may be freely distributed as long as
no part of the distribution is changed or removed. Long term use
is only permitted to registered users.
The copyright remains (C) 1996 Andreas Schmidt.
Disclaimer
==========
The author cannot be held liable for the suitability or accuracy of this
manual nor the program(s) and can not accept any responsibility for
damage directly or indirectly caused by the use of this manual and/or the
programs.
In other words: Anything you do is at your own risk.
Registration
============
The unregistered version only saves up to 30 objects (incl. contents
of compound objects). That also applies to the size of library folders.
If you want to register send US$ 20,- or DM 30,- to the address given below.
You will receive the code to remove the restriction via mail or e-mail.
Please add your e-mail address and the version number of your AmiFIG-copy.
About AmiFIG
============
AmiFIG is a universal vector based drawing program, which is derived from
the well-known Unix-program XFig by Supoj Sutanthavibul and others.
This version now includes most of the v3.1 features.
Parts of the GUI were designed using GadToolsBox 2.0b by JaBa Development.
Also included is fig2dev, a tool to convert fig data files into several
formats (postscript, LaTeX, epic etc.).
It's the original Unix program version 3.1.3. I merely added v1.4 file format
support and some more page formats for postscript export and fixed some bugs.
The postscript converter knows two new options -h xxx and -d yyy. xxx and yyy
are the page size in pixels at 72 dpi.
Requirements
============
Processor: works with 68000 without FPU or 68020 and FPU depending on the
program version
New in version 2.4
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-displays polygones (and arcboxes) with different line widths regarding
line style and join style
-text objects can have any angle (angles <> 0 will be displayed as framebox)
New in version 2.3
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-Picture import via DataTypes which also includes export via fig2dev
-All Xfig arrow types
-Creates icons
-A number of smaller enhancements
bugfixes:
Crash when activating the magnet mode. This only happened when AmiFIG
could not find a config file.
A number of smaller bugs were fixed which probably nobody encountered.
Differences to XFig
===================
Look up the manpage on drawing functions. This manpage refers to the
Unix-Version, therefore there are lots of differences.
The most important thing is the ability to handle a library of objects.
Objects can be taken from drawings and stored in folders. So you can
build a collection of symbols and pieces, that can be easily accessed
in future projects. This is very useful if you often need the same
things.
There is a bug in the XFig-versions that are based on the original source
code: Due to a round error centimeter rulers are not correct displayed.
One centimeter is 1.5 pixels too small in 80 dpi magnification. This
makes an error of 15 pixels or 1/2 cm for each 10 cm.
To correct this the original fig2dev scaled figures, that were drawn
using the centimeter-ruler by a factor of 1.05.
AmiFIG does not have this bug. Therefore I removed this workaround
from fig2dev. Figures that were drawn with other XFig-clones with
that have the buggy rulers are very probably by the factor of 0.95
smaller in AmiFIG.
Supports DataTypes.
What is to do?
==============
-cap style
-correct representation of different line widths of splines, circles and arcs
-automatic alignment
-fig-datatype
-and more
Contact
=======
AmiFIG Homepage <http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~huluvu/amifig.html>
e-Mail: huluvu@cs.tu-berlin.de
Mail: Andreas Schmidt
Walter-Friedrich-Str.45
13125 Berlin
Germany