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Version 2.0 of the XFig graphics editor is now available as contributed
software with X11R4.  It was developed from earlier versions of XFig
by Brian Smith of Livermore Labs (envbvs@epbs.lbl.gov), as is available
by anonymous FTP from expo.lcs.mit.edu.  Brian has made various improvements
and extensions of XFig; in order to support new features, he has defined
an extension to the file format used by Fig to store graphics and transmit
them to output routines.  The original format version was 1.4; his 
extension is called 1.4X

1.4X is not completely compatible with 1.4-TFX, the format supported by
the TransFig back end utility for Fig.  It is oriented towards PostScript
output, particularly in the specification of text fonts.  1.4X is supported
only by f2ps, the Fig-to-PS utility distributed with XFig 2.0; thus, it cannot
be translated to LaTeX-compatible output languages using TransFig.

In order to make XFig 2.0 useful to LaTeX/TransFig users, a compile-time
compatibility mode has been added in patchlevel 4.  When XFig 2.0 is
compiled with the preprocessor flag -DTFX, it is compatible with 1.4-TFX,
and thus with TransFig.  So if you hear that XFig 2.0 only supports
PS output, don't believe it!

TransFig Release 5a is now available; the main difference from release 4 is
that the transfig command is now implemented as a C program rather than a 
shell script and so is much faster.  Other than that, bug fixes.

TransFig is available via anonymous FTP from svax.cs.cornell.edu
in ~ftp/pub/fig/transfig.tar.Z, or by mail from the archive server
at sun.soe.clarkson.edu.

Micah Beck
Cornell CS Dept
beck@cs.cornell.edu