Re: XFig vs. dia 5:1

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, ml knorke in-berlin de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 10:28:55AM +0200, ed hunter seznam cz wrote:
> > would you mind sending me some pointers to xfig shapes? 
>
> Hm, I did `apt-get install xfig` on Debian unstable (yes,
> I'm one of the crazy/heroic people running unstable).  This
> installs /usr/share/xfig/Libraries/ in fig format.  It would
> be cool if dia could check this path and optionally,
> automatically use these. 

Wow, that's a lot of shapes right there.  I guess I can get the xfig
importer debugged now:)

> But much more important than the shapes are the hatches,
> IMHO - and this is difficult to implement.

Yes.  Not too difficult to add a hatch option to filled stuff, but harder
to add it to the renderers.

-Lars

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