Preview of figure is created when you single click on a filename
in the popup file panel. It also shows the size of the figure.
Library feature - load a library of Fig objects and pick and place
objects from the library on the canvas where you want.
See the man pages for details, and see Examples/Libraries for some
examples. From Stephane Mancini (mancini@elecsrv.enst.fr) with
modifications by Brian V. Smith
Preview of library objects in library popup similar to figure preview
by Brian Smith
The library objects in the Electrical and Logic libraries were done
by Peter Hiscocks (phiscock@ee.ryerson.ca)
Xfig tutorial (PDF) in Doc/xfig-howto.pdf. Also available from the
Help menu. Written by Peter Hiscocks (phiscock@ee.ryerson.ca)
"make install" installs the Fig object libraries to the library
directory.
The default is $XFIGLIBDIR/Libraries (/usr/lib/X11/xfig/Libraries),
which may be changed in the Imakefile.
When pasting a Fig object from the xfig cut buffer it appears under
the mouse (or near the mouse if pressing the "Paste" button) where
it may then be moved around on the canvas before pressing mouse
button 1 to place it.
Unit box in upper-right corner now shows the scale (e.g. 1cm=3km)
This necessitated making the top ruler a little narrower to make the
unitbox fit. If the mode panel is on the right side, the side ruler
is made wider to fit the unit box above it.
The path of imported pictures is saved as relative path if picture is
in subdirectory of main figure file, else it is saved as absolute.
from T. Sato
When drawing a line, moving a point on a line, or adding a point to
the end of a line, the angle to horizontal is shown in the message
window
Pressing -I turns on and off new feature that draws red
horizontal and vertical lines near the line you are drawing, or point
you are moving, to indicate rise and run. Also, the length is shown
next to and above the horizontal and vertical line respectively, and
the actual length of the line is shown near the line itself.
The command-line argument -showlengths (resource Fig.showlengths) will
enable this feature as xfig starts.
Print popup button is active even when print panel is up which makes
it easy to force it to the top of the window stack if it is hidden
Pressing the File button in the command panel while the Export panel
is up will popdown the export panelre alloThis shows the current style selection, or the user may enter a
style name here and press enter to load it.
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