
xfig(1)                     General Commands Manual                    xfig(1)



NAME
       xfig - Facility for Interactive Generation of figures under X11
       Version 3.2.7b

SYNOPSIS
       xfig [options] [file]

DESCRIPTION
       Xfig is a menu-driven tool that allows the user to draw and manipulate
       objects interactively under the X Window System.  It runs under X
       version 11 release 4 or higher and requires a two- or three-button
       mouse.  file specifies the name of a file to be edited.  The objects in
       the file will be read at the start of xfig.

       The bulk of the documentation for xfig is in an HTML-based reference
       guide.  See the Help menu in xfig or point your browser at
       /usr/local/share/doc/xfig/html/index.html.  There are both English and
       Japanese versions.

       When using a two-button mouse use the <Meta> key and the right button
       at the same time to effect the action of the middle button.

       Xfig is available from https://sourceforge.net/projects/mcj/.

       The Fig2dev package is used when printing or exporting the output from
       xfig.  The fig2dev program is automatically called by xfig as a back-
       end processor to produce various types of output:

       LaTeX, Metafont, PDF, PostScript or Encapsulated PostScript, CGM and
       EMF (mostyl used under Windows), tk (tcl/tk tool command language/tool
       kit package), SVG, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, PPM, TIFF, XBM, XPM, Gerber,
       AutoCAD Slide, IBM-GL (HP/GL), Pic and PiCTeX.  For use with TeX/LaTeX:
       box, epic, eepic, eepicemu, pict2e, pstricks, tikz.

       See man fig2dev for all options.

       The Fig2dev package is available from
       https://sourceforge.net/projects/mcj/.

OPTIONS
       -help
              Print all command-line options for xfig and quit.

       -a[llownegcoords]
              Allow panning into the negative region of the canvas.  This is
              the default

       -au[torefresh] Make xfig look at the timestamp on the .fig file and
       automatically load it and display it every time it changes.

       -bal[loon_delay] msec
              Cause popup information balloons to be delayed by msec
              milliseconds.  The default is 500 milliseconds.

       -bol[d] font
              Cause the font used for displaying the file name and
              confirmation messages to be font (default = 8x13bold).

       -butt[on] font
              Cause the font used for most buttons to be font (default =
              6x13).

       -but_[per_row] number
              Specify the number of buttons wide the mode panel should be.
              This is useful in conjunction with the -pheight parameter to
              reduce the canvas height for small screens.

       -cbg color
              Use color as the background color for the canvas.  If you want
              to set the background of everything in xfig (e.g. menus, etc.)
              use the general -bg option.

       -center
              Set the print option to print the figure centered on the page.
              This is the default.

       -centim[ers]
              Make centimeters the unit of choice.  See also -metric.

       -cfg color
              Use color as the default color for objects.  If you want to set
              the foreground of everything in xfig (e.g. menus, etc.) use the
              general -fg option.

       -correct_font_size
              Normally, fig2dev uses 1/80 inch for font size increments (for
              historical reasons), instead of the more proper ``points'' (1/72
              inch) that xfig uses.  This option makes xfig call fig2dev with
              the -F option to make it use points (1/72 inch).

       -deb[ug]
              Turn on debugging mode.  Prints various debugging messages like
              font names etc.

       -dep[th]
              Choose depth of visual desired.  Your server must support the
              desired visual and depth chosen.  Use xdpyinfo to see what
              visuals and depths are supported.  See also the -visual option.

       -donta[llownegcoords]
              Don't allow panning into the negative region of the canvas.  The
              default is to allow panning in the negative region.

       -dontshowb[alloons]
              Prevents xfig from popping up the information balloons.  See
              also -showballoons.

       -dontshowl[engths]
              Don't show lengths of lines as they are being drawn.  This is
              the default.

       -dontshowz[erolines]
              Don't show axis zero lines on the canvas.  The default is to
              show them.

       -dontsw[itchcmap]
              Prevents xfig from switching to a private colormap if there
              aren't enough colors available in the default colormap.  See
              also -max_image_colors.

       -enc[oding] encoding
              Encode character set using encoding when exporting LaTeX text.
              The default is 1.  This is used for the ISO-8859 encoding of
              character sets.  Allowed values are 0 (no encoding), 1
              (ISO-8859-1) or 2 (ISO-8859-2).

       -exportL[anguage] language
              Specifies the default language to be used for when exporting a
              fig file.  Choices are:

              Name              Language
              ---------------------------------------------------------------
              Vector formats:
              ps                PostScript
              eps               Encapsulated PostScript
              pdf               PDF (Portable Document Format)
              box               LaTeX box (figure boundary)
              latex             LaTeX picture
              pict2e            LaTeX picture + pict2e macros
              tikz              LaTeX picture + tikz macros
              epic              LaTeX picture + epic macros
              eepic             LaTeX picture + eepic macros
              eepicemu          LaTeX picture + eepicemu macros
              pstex             Combined PS/LaTeX (both PS and LaTeX parts)
              pdftex            Combined PDF/LaTeX (both PDF and LaTeX parts)
              pspdftex          Combined PS/PDF/LaTeX (three parts)
              pictex            PiCTeX macros
              cgm               Computer Graphcis Meta file
              emf               Enhanced Meta file
              dxf               Drawing Interchange format
              gbx               Gerber (RS-247-X)
              ibmgl             HPGL/2 or IBMGL
              textyl            Textyl special commands
              tpic              TPIC
              pic               PIC
              mf                MF (MetaFont)
              mp                MP (MetaPost)
              tk                Tk (Tcl/Tk toolkit)
              ptk               Perl/Tk
              shape             LaTeX shape paragraph definition
              svg               SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)

              Bitmap formats:
              gif               GIF
              jpeg              JPEG (JFIF)
              pcx               PCX
              png               PNG
              ppm               PPM (portable pixmap package)
              sld               (AutoCad slide)
              tiff              TIFF
              xbm               X11 Bitmap
              xpm               X11 Pixmap
              ---------------------------------------------------------------


       -export_m[argin] width
              Set the size of the border margin around the figure for
              exporting to bitmap, PostScript, Encapsulated PostScript, or
              HTML MAP formats.  This is in units of points (1/72th inch).
              The default is 0.

       -fli[pvisualhints]
              Flip left/right mouse indicator messages for mice whose buttons
              have been switched.  The default is to NOT flip the messages.

       -flu[shleft]
              Set the print option to print the figure flush left.  The
              default is to center the figure on the page.

       -free[hand_resolution] resolution
              Set the resolution of the freehand drawing mode to resolution
              pixels.  This is the number of pixels the mouse must move before
              xfig adds another point to the object being drawn.

       -geom[etry] [WxH][+X+Y]
              You may use the -geometry option or resource to size and/or
              position the xfig window, or you may use -pwidth and/or -pheight
              to specify the canvas size in inches or centimeters.  If you use
              the -geom option to make the xfig window smaller than the
              default, you may have to use the -but_per_row option to tell
              xfig to put 3 or 4 buttons per row on the left mode panel.

       -gh[ostscript] postscript-interpreter
              Select the PostScript (tm) interpreter of your choice.  The
              default is ghostscript (gs).  This is needed when importing
              Encapsulated PostScript files.

       -grid_c[olor] color
              Draw the grid on the canvas in this color (default: red).

       -grid_u[nit] unit
              Only used when in inches mode to choose between showing
              fractions or decimal inches in the rulers and grid.  Any of the
              following may be used to force decimal inches: "ten", "tenth",
              "10, "1/10".  If any other value is used for this option, the
              rulers will show 1/16 inch divisions.

       -hidd[entext]
              Start xfig with the hidden text mode for text objects.  The
              Hidden attribute is used for figures that will be used with
              LaTeX and is applicable only to the display of the document in
              xfig.  It means that the text itself is not shown onscreen, but
              only the string ``<text>''.  This is to keep long sequences of
              LaTeX formatting commands from making the screen messy and hard
              to read.  The default for the Hidden flag is off.

       -dontshowd[epthmanager]
              Hide the depth manager panel.  The default is to show the panel.

       -icon_[view]
              Show the library objects as icons.  This is the default.  The
              other mode is -list_view.

       -iconG[eometry] +X+Y
              Specifies the position for the icon.

       -im[age_editor] editor
              Specify bitmap editor to use when ``Edit Image'' button is
              pressed in Picture Object panel.

       -inc[hes] (or-imperial)
              Make inches the unit of choice.  This is the default.

       -ins[tallowncmap]
              Install own colormap. Normally, xfig uses the current colormap.

       -internalBW width
              Use lines of width width between all buttons and panels (default
              = 1).

       -international
              Switch on international support (mainly Japanese and Korean),
              users of ISO Latin 1 (ISO-8859-1) probably should not use this,
              therefore the international support is switched off by default
              for locales using ISO-8859-1* codesets. For all other locales
              this option is already used by default.

       -jpeg[_quality] quality
              Set the quality factor for exporting to the jpeg format.  The
              default is 75.

       -k[eyFile] compose-key-file
              Use compose-key-file instead of CompKeyDB for compose (meta) key
              database.  If there are no ``/''s in the name, the file must
              reside in the xfig library directory, $XFIGLIBDIR, usually
              /usr/local/lib/X11/xfig.  If there are any ``/''s in the name it
              is taken as is (not relative to $XFIGLIBDIR).  If there is a
              leading ``~/'' in the string then the ``~'' is expanded to the
              user's home directory.

       -lan[dscape]
              Make xfig come up in landscape mode (10.5" x 8").  This is the
              default; however as the orientation is stored with Fig files,
              when you load a Fig file the orientation will change as
              required.  This is only true for files of version 3.0 or higher.
              See also -portrait.

       -lat[exfonts]
              Start xfig with LaTeX font selection.  Normally, the PostScript
              fonts are available as the default.  This flag selects the LaTeX
              fonts to start.

       -le[ft]
              Change the position of the side panel window to the left of the
              canvas window.  This is the default.

       -library_d[ir] directory
              Specify directory where Fig object libraries are located.  There
              may be sub-directories there and sub-sub-directories, etc.

       -library_i[con_size] size
              Specify the size of the icons shown for library objects.  The
              default is 60 pixels, with the minimum being 40 and the maximum
              being 120.

       -lis[t_view]
              Show the library objects as a list of names. The default mode is
              -icon_view.

       -mag[nification] mag
              Set export and print magnification in %.

       -max[_image_colors] numcols
              Limit the number of colors used for imported images to numcols
              (default 64).

       -me[tric]
              Make centimeters the unit of choice.  The option -centimeters
              may also be used.

              After xfig is started you may change the units from metric to
              imperial or vice versa from a popup menu available by pressing
              mouse button 3 in the units box where the two rulers meet.

       -mo[nochrome]
              Use black and white only.

       -mu[ltiple]
              Sets multiple page mode for print or export. See also -single.

       -noo[verlap]
              When exporting in multiple page mode, causes no overlap from
              page to page.  This is the default.  See also -overlap.

       -nor[mal] font
              Cause the font used for the message window to be font.  This
              font is also used on the canvas when the selected font is not
              available in an X11 font (default = 6x13).

       -nosc[alablefonts]
              Disables use of the X11R5 or OpenWindows scalable fonts.  You
              might want to use this for debugging.

       -nosp[lash]
              Don't show the startup splash screen.  The default is to show it
              ( -splash ).

       -not[rack]
              Turn off cursor (mouse) tracking arrows.

       -nowrite_bak
              When saving a drawing into an existing .fig file xfig will first
              rename that file by appending ".bak" to the name.  This option
              disables this feature.

       -ov[erlap]
              When exporting in multiple page mode, causes overlap from page
              to page of about 10%.  See also -nooverlap.

       -pag[eborder] color
              Draw the page border on the canvas in this color (default light
              blue).  The page border is turned on by the -showpageborder
              option (resource Fig.showpageborder), and shows the edges of the
              current export paper size.

       -pap[er_size] size
              Set the initial paper size for Export and Print.  Choices are

              Option     Paper      Size
              ---------------------------------
              letter     Letter     8.5in x 11in
              legal      Legal      8.5in x 14in
              tabloid    Tabloid    17in x 11in
              a          ANSI A     8.5in x 11in
              b          ANSI B     11in x 17in
              c          ANSI C     17in x 22in
              d          ANSI D     22in x 34in
              e          ANSI E     34in x 44in
              a9         ISO A9     37mm x 52mm
              a8         ISO A8     52mm x 74mm
              a7         ISO A7     74mm x 105mm
              a6         ISO A6     105mm x 148mm
              a5         ISO A5     148mm x 210mm
              a4         ISO A4     210mm x 297mm
              a3         ISO A3     297mm x 420mm
              a2         ISO A2     420mm x 594mm
              a1         ISO A1     594mm x 840mm
              a0         ISO A0     840mm x 1189mm
              b10        JIS B10    32mm x 45mm
              b9         JIS B9     45mm x 64mm
              b8         JIS B8     64mm x 91mm
              b7         JIS B7     91mm x 128mm
              b6         JIS B6     128mm x 182mm
              b5         JIS B5     182mm x 257mm
              b4         JIS B4     257mm x 364mm
              b3         JIS B3     364mm x 515mm
              b2         JIS B2     515mm x 728mm
              b1         JIS B1     728mm x 1030mm
              b0         JIS B0     1030mm x 1456mm
              ---------------------------------

              Note that this doesn't affect the size of the drawing canvas.
              Use the -pheight and -pwidth options for that.

       -ph[eight] height
              Make the xfig canvas height high (where height is either cm or
              in, depending on the -metric setting).

       -po[rtrait]
              Make xfig come up in portrait mode (8.5" x 9").  See note about
              landscape mode.

       -pw[idth] width
              Make the xfig canvas width wide (where width is either cm or in,
              depending on the -metric setting).

       -righ[t]
              Change the position of the side panel window to the right of the
              canvas window (default: left).

       -rigi[d]
              Start xfig with the rigid text mode for text objects.  The Rigid
              attribute forces text to remain the same size even if inside a
              compound object that is scaled up or down.  The default is off.

       -ru[lerthick]
              Set the height(width) of the top(side) rulers in pixels.  The
              default (and minimum) is 24.

       -scala[blefonts]
              Allows use of the X11R5 or OpenWindows scalable fonts (this is
              the default).  If the scalable fonts aren't available xfig will
              automatically switch to non-scaling fonts.

       -scale_factor scale
              Scale every figure read in by this value.  This is useful in
              conjunction with the -update option to do batch scaling of
              figures.

       -showa[llbuttons]
              Show all the xfig indicator buttons instead of only those
              relevant to the current drawing mode.  Normally, the buttons
              line width, area-fill, grid mode, text size, etc. are only
              visible when they are relevant to the current drawing mode.  The
              -showallbuttons option makes all of the indicator buttons
              visible at all times.  This takes up more screen real estate,
              but allows the user to see all settable parameters.

       -showb[alloons]
              Forces xfig to pop up the information balloons when the mouse
              passws over a button. This is the default. See also
              -dontshowballoons .

       -showd[epthmanager]
              Show the depth manager panel.  This panel lets one show or hide
              objects at various depths.  This is the default.

       -showl[engths]
              Makes xfig show the lengths of lines being drawn, in red text
              near the line itself.  Also, when points are moved or added.  In
              addition, imagine a triangle formed with the line segment as the
              hypotenuse, and a vertical and horizontal line forming the other
              two sides.  These lines and their lengths are also drawn in red
              as the point is moved or added.  This mode is ignored when
              drawing in freehand mode.
              This flag may be toggled by pressing <Meta>i (default).

       -shown[ums]
              With this option, xfig will draw all objects with a red number
              next to each vertex.  This is generally only useful for
              debugging.

       -showp[ageborder]
              Makes xfig show the border of the current paper size in the
              color specified by the -pageborder option (default: light blue).

       -showz[erolines]
              Show axis zero lines on the canvas.  This is the default

       -si[ngle]
              Sets single page mode for print or export.  This is the default.
              See also -multiple.

       -sm[ooth_factor] factor
              Enable smoothing when exporting to the bitmap formats (e.g. GIF,
              PNG, etc.). The allowed values are 0 (no smoothing), 2 or 4
              (most smoothing).  This parameter is passed to ghostscript in
              the -dTextAlphaBits -dGraphicsAlphaBits options to smooth the
              figure.

       -spec[ialtext]
              Start xfig with the TeX text mode for text objects.  This means
              that characters that have a special meaning to TeX/LaTeX, e.g.,
              '$' or '\', are not quoted but left untouched in the text
              string.  This is most useful for writing LaTeX equations.  If
              this flag is not set, then the backslash character '\' is
              changed to the \backslash command, a brace '{' is turned into a
              brace command \{, etc.

       -spel[lcheckcommand] command
              Use command for the external spell checking program when using
              the spell check/search/replace popup.  The string command should
              include the string ``%s'' which is replaced by a temporary
              filename.  Default is ``spell %s''.

       -spinner_d[elay] msec
              The delay (in milliseconds) before the spinner will
              automatically count up or down when the button is pressed.
              Spinners are the (numeric) text widgets with an up- and down-
              arrow, which when clicked, cause the value to be
              incremented/decremented.  The default is 500 milliseconds.

       -spinner_r[rate] msec
              The rate (in milliseconds) at which the spinner will count when
              the up- or down-arrow is pressed.

       -startfi[llstyle] stylenumber
              Set the starting fill style for area fill (-1 to 21).

       -startfo[ntsize] pointsize
              Set the default font size for text objects (default = 12pt).

       -startg[ridmode] modenumber
              Set the starting grid mode (0 to 3).  Mode 0 is no grid.  In
              imperial (inches) mode, grid mode 1 is 1/4 inch, mode 2 is 1/2
              inch and mode 3 is 1 inch.  In metric mode, grid mode 1 is 2mm,
              mode 2 is 5mm and mode 3 is 1cm.

       -startla[texFont] font
              Set the starting font name for LaTeX fonts.

       -startli[newidth] width
              Set the starting line width.

       -startpo[snmode] modenumber
              Set the starting point positioning mode (0 to 4) In imperial
              (inches) mode, positioning mode 0 is ``any'', mode 1 is 1/16
              inch, mode 2 is 1/4 inch, mode 3 is 1/2 inch and mode 4 is 1
              inch.  In metric mode, mode 0 is ``any'', mode 1 is 1mm, mode 2
              is 5mm, mode 3 is 10mm and mode 4 is 20mm.

       -startp[sFont] font
              Set the starting font name for PostScript fonts.

       -startt[extstep] stepsize
              Set the starting text step.

       -ta[blet]
              Specifies that xfig should use the input tablet instead of the
              mouse for drawing.  You must have the XInputExtension in your X
              server and an input tablet for this to work.  Also, you must
              modify the Imakefile to include the USETAB and TABLIB variables.

       -track
              Turn on cursor (mouse) tracking arrows (default).

       -tran[sparent_color] color_number
              Make the transparent color for GIF export color_number.  This
              number is the color number according to the xfig color panel,
              starting at 0 (black) and ending at 31 (gold), or may be a user-
              defined color number, which is 32 or higher.

       -update file [ file ... ]
              Run xfig in an "update" mode, where it will read each Fig file
              specified on the command line and write it out to the original
              file, in the current file format for the version of xfig being
              run.  The original Fig file will be preserved with the suffix
              .bak attached to the name.
              In this mode, xfig doesn't connect the X server, so no window is
              opened, and it exits when finished.

       -users[cale] scale
              Set the multiplier for displayed line lengths etc.  This factor
              is multiplied by the actual length, radius or diameter of the
              object currently being drawn on the canvas.  It is useful for
              making scale drawings, where e.g. 1 inch = 1 foot (userscale =
              12.0) or 1cm = 1m (userscale = 100.0).

       -useru[nit] units
              The units string is printed with the length information when
              drawing objects.  For example if the userscale = 1.0 and the
              userunit = ft then a line which is 3 inches long on the canvas
              would be displayed as ``length = 3 ft'' when it is being drawn.

              After xfig is started you may change the userscale and the
              userunit from a popup menu available by pressing mouse button 3
              in the units box where the two rulers meet.

       -visual visualname
              Use visualname as the visual for xfig.  The names are TrueColor
              (case is not important), StaticColor, DirectColor, StaticGray,
              GrayScale and PseudoColor.  xfig uses the default visual unless
              this is specified.  Your server must support the desired visual.
              Use xdpyinfo to see what visuals and depths are supported.  See
              also the -depth option.

       -write_bak
              When saving a drawing into an existing .fig file xfig will first
              rename that file by appending

       -zoom zoomscale
              Set the starting zoom scale.



X RESOURCES and DEFAULTS
       The overall widget name(Class) is xfig(Fig).  These resources
       correspond to the command line arguments:

    Name                Type    Default         Command-line equivalent
    -------------------------------------------------------------------
    allownegcoords      boolean true            -allownegcoords (true),
                                                -dontallownegcoords (false)
    autorefresh         boolean false           -autorefresh
    axislines           string  pink            -axislines
    balloon_delay       integer 500 (ms)        -balloon_delay
    boldFont            string  8x13bold        -bold
    but_per_row         integer 2               -but_per_row
    buttonFont          string  6x13            -button
    canvasbackground    string  white           -cbg
    canvasforeground    string  black           -cfg
    correctfontsize     boolean false           -correctfontsize
    debug               boolean false           -debug
    depth               integer *               -depth
    dontswitchcmap      boolean false           -dontswitchcmap
    euc_encoding        boolean false           (n/a)
    locale_encoding     boolean false           (n/a)
    encoding            integer 1               -encoding
    save8bit            boolean false           (n/a)
    exportLanguage      string  eps             -exportLanguage
    export_margin       integer 0               -export_margin
    flipvisualhints     boolean false           -flipvisualhints
    flushleft           boolean false           -flushleft (true),
                                                -center (false)
    freehand_resolution integer 25              -freehand_resolution
    grid_color          string  black           -grid_color
    grid_unit           string  1/16 (inch)     -grid_unit
                                0.1 (metric)
    hiddentext          boolean false           -hiddentext
    icon_view           boolean true            -icon_view (true),
                                                -list_view (false)
    image_editor        string  xv              -image_editor
    inches              boolean true            -inches (true),
                                                -imperial (true),
                                                -centimeters (false),
                                                -metric (false)
    installowncmap      boolean false           -installowncmap
    internalborderwidth integer 1               -internalBW
    international       International           booleanfalse-international
    jpeg_quality        integer 75              -jpeg_quality
    justify             boolean false           -left (false),
                                                -right (true)
    keyFile             string  CompKeyDB       -keyFile
    landscape           boolean true            -Landscape (true),
                                                -landscape (true),
                                                -Portrait (false),
                                                -portrait (false)
    latexfonts          boolean false           -latexfonts
    library_dir         string  ~/xfiglib       -library_dir
    magnification       float   100             -magnification
    max_image_colors    integer 64              -max_image_colors
    monochrome          boolean false           -monochrome
    multiple            boolean false           -multiple
    normalFont          string  6x13            -normal
    overlap             boolean true            -overlap (true),
                                                -nooverlap (false)
    pageborder          string  lightblue       -pageborder
    paper_size          string  Letter (inch)   -paper_size
                                A4 (metric)
    pheight             float   8.5 (landscape) -pheight
                                9.5 (portrait)
    pwidth              float   11 (landscape)  -pwidth
                                8.5 (portrait)
    rigidtext           boolean false           -rigid (true)
    rulerthick          integer 24              -rulerthick
    scalablefonts       boolean true            -scalablefonts (true),
                                                -noscalablefonts (false)
    scale_factor        float   1.0             -scale_factor
    showallbuttons      boolean false           -showallbuttons
    showaxislines       boolean true            -showaxislines (true),
                                                -dontshowaxislines (false)
    showballoons        boolean true            -showballoons (true),
                                                -dontshowballoons (false)
    showdepthmanager    boolean true            -showdepthmanager (true),
                                                -dontshowdepthmanager (false)
    showlengths         boolean false           -showlengths (true),
                                                -dontshowlengths (false)
    shownums            boolean false           -shownums (true),
                                                -dontshownums (false)
    showpageborder      boolean true            -showpageborder (true),
                                                -dontshowpageborder (false)
    single              boolean true            -single
    smooth_factor       integer 0               -smooth_factor
    specialtext         boolean false           -specialtext
    splash              boolean true            -splash (true),
                                                -nosplash (false)
    spellcheckcommand   string  spell %s        -spellcheckcommand
    spinner_delay       integer 500 (ms)        -spinner_delay
    spinner_rate        integer 100 (ms)        -spinner_rate
    startfillstyle      integer 0               -startfillstyle
    startfontsize       float   12              -startfontsize
    startgridmode       integer 0               -startgridmode
    startlatexFont      string  Default         -startlatexFont
    startlinewidth      integer 1               -startlinewidth
    startposnmode       integer 1               -startposnmode
    startpsFont         string  Times-Roman     -startpsFont
    starttextstep       float   1.2             -starttextstep
    tablet              boolean false           -track,
    trackCursor         boolean true            -track (true),
                                                -notrack (false)
    transparent_color   integer -2 (none)       -transparent_color
    userscale           float   1.0             -userscale
    userunit            string  in (inches)     -userunit
                                cm (metric)
    visual              string  *               -visual
    write_bak           boolean true            -write_bak
    zoom                float   1.0             -zoom

    * Default visual and depth depend on the X server. Use xdpyinfo
    to see what visuals and depths are supported.
    -------------------------------------------------------------------


BUGS and RESTRICTIONS
       Please send bug reports, fixes, new features etc. to:
       thomas.loimer@tuwien.ac.at

       Because of the difference of some fonts in some X servers and the
       PostScript fonts on printers, text alignment can be problematic.

       Not all operations employ smart redrawing of objects which are altered
       as a by product of the operation.  You may need to use Redraw in these
       cases.

       If the image is panned or the xfig window iconified and de-iconified
       during the middle of an operation (e.g. while drawing a line), the
       picture will be distorted.  This can be corrected using Redraw after
       the operation is complete.

       When zoomed very large, the length of dashes in dashed lines will top
       out at 255 pixels long.  This is due to a restriction in X that the
       dash list is defined by char (255 pixels maximum for a dash).  The
       figure will print correctly, however.

       When you do a copy/rotate with multiple copies, only the creation of
       the last object can be undone with the Undo button.

       Modifications to text using the popup search/update/replace/spell check
       panel cannot be undone.

SEE ALSO
       fig2dev(1) (Fig2dev package)

       gs(1) (Ghostscript PostScript previewer)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
       (From the original author, Supoj Sutanthavibul): Many thanks goes to
       Professor Donald E. Fussell who inspired the creation of this tool.

       (From Brian Smith): Thanks to all the users who have contributed to
       xfig, especially Paul King who, besides adding many features, revamped
       the look and feel which became version 2.1.

COPYRIGHT
       Original Copyright (c) 1985 by Supoj Sutanthavibul
       Parts Copyright (c) 1989-2015 by Brian V. Smith
       Parts Copyright (c) 1991 by Paul King
       Parts Copyright (c) 2016-2018 by Thomas Loimer
       Other Copyrights may be found in various files


       Any party obtaining a copy of these files is granted, free of charge, a
       full and unrestricted irrevocable, world-wide, paid up, royalty-free,
       nonexclusive right and license to deal in this software and
       documentation files (the "Software"), including without limitation the
       rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish and/or distribute copies of
       the Software, and to permit persons who receive copies from any such
       party to do so, with the only requirement being that this copyright
       notice remain intact.

       THE AUTHORS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE,
       INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO
       EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR
       CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF
       USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR
       OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
       PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.


       PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.

       Parts Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.
       Copyright notice for pbmplus code:

       Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
       software and its documentation for any purpose and without
       fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright
       notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright
       notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
       documentation.  This software is provided ``as is'' without
       express or implied warranty.

FILES
       /usr/local/lib/X11/xfig/CompKeyDB
               Data base of compose (meta) key sequences for 8-bit characters.
               A different file may be specified with the command line option
               -keyFile or X toolkit resource keyFile.

       /usr/local/share/doc/xfig/html
               This directory contains the html documentation.

       /usr/local/share/doc/xfig/FORMAT3.2
               Description of Fig file format.

       /usr/local/lib/X11/xfig/Libraries
               This directory contains libraries of Fig objects such as
               electrical symbols, logic symbols, etc.

       /usr/local/lib/X11/app-defaults/Fig
               Application defaults file.

       /usr/local/share/applications/xfig.desktop
               Desktop entry file.

       /usr/local/share/pixmaps/xfig.png
               Desktop icon.


AUTHORS
       Many people have contributed to xfig.  Here is a list of the people who
       have contributed the most (in chronological order):

       Version 1:


           Original author:
           Supoj Sutanthavibul, University of Texas at Austin

           The LaTeX line drawing modes were contributed by:
           Frank Schmuck, Cornell University

           Original X11 port by:
           Ken Yap, Rochester

           Variable window sizes, cleanup of X11 port, right hand side panel:
           Dana Chee, Bellcore

           Cleanup of color port to X11 by:
           John T. Kohl, MIT

       Version 2.0:


           Area fill, multiple line thicknesses, multiple fonts and font
           sizes, bottom panel, line style/thickness, (and anything else that
           wasn't written by the others) by:
           Brian Smith
           (standard disclaimer applies)
           (bvsmith@lbl.gov)

           Popup change-object menu by:
           Jon Tombs
           Frank Schmuck

           Zooming and panning functions, shift key select mechanism by:
           Dieter Pellkofer
           Henning Spruth

           Depth feature by:
           Mike Lutz

           Cut/Paste by:
           Tom Tkacik

       Version 2.1:


           Indicator panel, file menu popup, print menu popup, panning with
           rulers, mouse function window, regular polygon, rubberbanding of
           circles/ellipses, filled splines on canvas, dashed/dotted splines
           on canvas, update button, arbitrary angle rotation of objects,
           alignment in compound, object scaling, constrained copy/move,
           corner markers for compound, context sensitive corner markers,
           smarter redraw, undo for compound and point move for boxes, cancel
           object creation, point positioning to three resolutions, TransFig
           scalable text, hidden text, special text, save of figure on crash
           by:

           Paul King (king@cs.uq.oz.au)
           with help from:
           Brian Smith and Micah Beck (beck@cs.utk.edu)

           Encapsulated PostScript importing by:
           Brian Boyter

           Pan/zoom with ctrl key/mouse by:
           Henning Spruth

           International characters by:
           Herve Soulard

           Directory Browser based on XDir by:
           Win Treese, Digital Equipment Corporation

           Rotated ellipses by:
           James Tough, Dept. of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University,
           Scotland

           Rotated text from the xvertext package by:
           Alan Richardson, Space Science Centre, School of MAPS, University
           of Sussex

           Popup scale menu and dynamic switching between inches and cm by:
           Paul King (king@cs.uq.oz.au)

           Extensive man page formatting revisions by:
           David W. Sanderson

           Display Postscript code for IBM RS/6000 by:
           Dave Hale (dhale@green.mines.colorado.edu)

       Version 3.0:


           New arrowhead types, separate pen/fill colors, new file protocol,
           more colors with extended color popup panel, new arc style, new
           fill patterns (bricks, etc), new line join and cap styles, export
           offset and file load offset, XPM import, XBM import and export (and
           anything else that wasn't written by the others) by:
           Brian Smith
           (Note: the color popup panel was based on xcoloredit by Richard
           Hesketh)


           GIF header reading code by:
           David Koblas from the giftoppm part of the pbmplus package

           XPM export code (using XPM3 libraries) by:
           Karel van Houten (K.H.C.vanHouten@research.ptt.nl)

           Higher figure resolution (1200dpi) by:
           Ross Martin (martin@trcsun3.eas.asu.edu)

           Color quantization using neural network by:
           Anthony Dekker (dekker@ACM.org)
           [NEUQUANT Neural-Net quantization algorithm by Anthony Dekker,
           1994.  See ``Kohonen neural networks for optimal colour
           quantization'' in ``Network: Computation in Neural Systems'' Vol. 5
           (1994) pp 351-367.  for a discussion of the algorithm.]

           Floyd-Steinberg algorithm for dithering color images on monochrome
           displays lifted from the Pbmplus package by Jef Poskanser.

           rotate/flip objects around/about selected anchor point and multiple
           copies of objects by:
           Uwe Bonnes (bon@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de)

           Input tablet extension by:
           Greg LaCoste (greg@seismo.do.usbr.gov)

       Version 3.1:


           The only difference between protocol version 3.0 and version 3.1 is
           that the position of the ``magnet'' has been shifted by 14 fig
           units.  In the 2.1 and older versions of xfig the grid was in
           multiples of 5 fig units, but they were on intervals 4, 9, 14, 19,
           etc.  When version 3.0 was created, coordinates were simply
           multiplied by the ratio of the resolutions (1200/80 = 15) so values
           like 4 became 60 instead of 74 ((4+1)*15 - 1).

           The JPEG import/export code uses the Independent JPEG Group
           software (see jpeg/README for details)

           Image browser, editor and screen capture features by:
           Jim Daley (jdaley@cix.compulink.co.uk)

       Version 3.2:


           The changes to the version 3.2 file protocol are the addition of
           the paper size, print/export magnification, single/multiple page
           indicator and a transparent color name used for GIF export to the
           header of the file.
           The other difference in the version 3.2 protocol is the
           mathematical model used for splines. The new version uses X-splines
           which allows the user to mix interpolation and approximation points
           in a same curve. More precisely, it means that an X-spline curve is
           neither an interpolated spline nor an approximated one, it is BOTH
           (the behaviour of each point is controlled by one single parameter
           called ``shape factor''). For additional information about X-
           splines, see:

             "X-Splines: A Spline Model Designed for the End User"
             by C. Blanc and C. Schlick, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH'95
             http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~schlick/DOC/sig1.html

           Caveat: Because previous spline models (quadratic B-splines and
           Bezier with hidden points) are no longer supported, curves that are
           present in version 3.1 and older files are automatically converted
           to X-splines.  This translation is only an approximation process.
           It means that the converted curves are not exactly the same as the
           original ones. Though they are usually very close, some hand-
           fitting may be needed in some pathological cases.

           Inclusion of X-splines by:
           Carole Blanc (blanc@labri.u-bordeaux.fr)
           Christophe Schlick (schlick@labri.u-bordeaux.fr)
           Note: the initial implementation was done by C. Feuille, S.
           Grosbois, L.  Maziere and L. Minihot as a student practice
           (Universite Bordeaux, France).

           Open/close compound feature written by
           Bill Taylor (bill@mainstream.com)

           Library feature written by
           Stephane Mancini (mancini@elecsrv.enst.fr) (object preview by Brian
           V. Smith)

           The library objects in the Electrical and Logic libraries were done
           by
           Peter Hiscocks (phiscock@ee.ryerson.ca)

           The library objects in the Computer, Networks, and Hospital-
           Equipment libraries were extracted from the clipart example files
           by
           Bill Chimiak (chim@bgsm.edu)


       Version 3.2.3 and newer:


           Please see the CHANGES file for credits for newer releases.

NOTES
       Many bug fixes/cleanups etc. by a host of faithful users.

       See the CHANGES file for all the credits.

       The Fig2dev package was written by Micah Beck and is maintained by
       Thomas Loimer.



Xfig 3.2.7b                        Oct 2019                            xfig(1)
