Fabian Hassler

Hello, I'd like to point you to RustFig, a free (MIT/Apache) reimplementation of xfig for macOS, Windows and Linux, now also on CTAN (graphics/rustfig). It exports any drawing as an Asymptote program (unitsize, pens, arrows, fill patterns as tilings, LaTeX labels), so a figure drawn with the mouse becomes editable .asy code. It also opens PDF and SVG files as editable objects. That makes it a converter as well: rustfig-cli convert figure.pdf figure.asy The export comes from its Rust port of fig2dev...

Hi everyone, First, I want to express my huge appreciation to everyone who has maintained, contributed to, and used Xfig over the years. It is an absolute masterpiece of vector drawing software, and I’ve relied on it for a long time. As a macOS user, however, running Xfig has grown increasingly precarious with each OS update (dealing with XQuartz and XServer issues—including the dreaded black-box rendering bugs we saw recently). Because I love Xfig and want to ensure I can keep using it well into...