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General Discussion / Dimension line

« Last post by everkuil on February 05, 2013, 10:09:25 PM »

I'm used to work with xfig and would like to make the switch to winfig.
Under xfig I make regular use of the "Dimension line" function. I've tried everything under winfig but I have not been able to discover whether this is possible.

Hopefully someone can help me out.

Erik

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General Discussion / Re: Scale an element?

« Last post by Andreas on January 21, 2013, 12:06:07 AM »

Actually, you have to wrap that object into a compound and then scale the compound. That really works. You can scale the compound along x or y or both while keeping the apect ratio.

I admit the workaround via creating a compound is not very convenient. Perhaps I can find a better way.

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General Discussion / Re: cannot export correct formula

« Last post by Andreas on January 21, 2013, 12:00:13 AM »

If you export to EPS, you get EPS. WinFIG runs the TeX formatted texts through a LaTeX interpreter for visualization, but the export is still
a plain EPS export. You have to export to LaTeX or - even better - to a combined LaTeX/EPS-Format. That's done via the pstex or pdftex export.

See the FAQ question "How can I create a LaTeX file with PSTeX or PDFTeX?"
 
An alternative is to export to pstricks and include the pstricks package in your LaTeX document. pstricks has graphics capabilities close to PostScript.

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General Discussion / cannot export correct formula

« Last post by l123 on January 19, 2013, 01:47:23 AM »

Hi, I use WinFIG 4.9 at Windows 7 32bit

When I set special flag at right toolbar, I could input formula at Text, like "$A^{i}_{j}$" (without quote).

It shows correctly at WinFIG, but when I would export it to eps, it shows wrongly like $A^{i}_{j}$, instead of correct formula.

Any help? Appreciation TIA!

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General Discussion / Scale an element?

« Last post by ugignadl on December 15, 2012, 11:37:08 PM »

Hi all,

I'm very new to Winfig, but have used Xfig. In Xfig, I would use the scale button to scale an element. This is very useful for a lot of reasons. I tried using the "scale compound object" button to scale a single element but for whatever reason it doesn't work for me. Should it? How do you scale an individual element??

Cheers!

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General Discussion / Re: Fail to start WinFIG in Ubuntu 12.04-64Bit

« Last post by thomas on November 10, 2012, 02:14:35 PM »

Thank You for Your hint.
Last month the system was updated with a version > 4.4 and the problem was fixed. 

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General Discussion / Re: Grid Size

« Last post by Andreas on October 22, 2012, 10:38:31 PM »

Right now there are 3 grid sizes and 5 magnet/snap steppings. I'm considering to implement something that would be freely configurable.

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Feature Requests / Re: Constrained Move

« Last post by Andreas on October 22, 2012, 10:34:37 PM »

WinFIG can snap to grid, snap to vertex and constrain new line points using manhattan/mountain/mounthattan geometry.

WinFIG 3.x could also contrain moves to x or y axis only. I will add that again in the next release.

I don't know if Xfig does that so much better. When I have an ellipse and choose the wide grid under "point posn", then I cannot even grab the ellipse if it doesn't touch any of the grid intersections. Same for other shapes.

I didn't really understand what I meant by " they to not align with the parent object". Perhaps, if I could understand your idea, this could be a feature to implement.

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General Discussion / Grid Size

« Last post by khdetw on October 20, 2012, 11:34:45 AM »

Is there any way to change the default grid sizes? "Small" is not small enough.

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Feature Requests / Re: Constrained Move

« Last post by khdetw on October 19, 2012, 12:58:03 PM »

Actually, using Winfig a bit more, the lack of constrained move & copy is a big problem compared to xfig. When copying objects with snap-to-grid enabled they to not align with the parent object. I have to place the copied object then to a Move to align it with the grid.