RE: publication quality plots?

[Andrew Wittenberg <Andrew.Wittenberg@xxxxxxxx>]

Another advantage of Xfig is that one can embed LaTeX commands into a
figure, which allows one to create nicely formatted symbols and equations
that show up in LaTeX documents.

An introduction to Xfig is available at http://www.xfig.org.

Andrew

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 john.hunter@utas.edu.au wrote:
> I am a quite new user of Ferret, but I use the Unix utility xfig
> to clean up Ferret PostScript files to improve text quality and
> blank out unwanted parts (xfig can import PostScript files and other
> images). This can all be nicely done in scripts using the following 
> procedure:
> 
> 1. Edit a "template" "fig" file similar to the one below, 
>    replacing zzzzzzzzzz.ps with the name of the PostScript file 
>    generated by Fprint from a Ferret "plt" file. (NOTE the example 
>    shown will not fit neatly around your own plot and will have 
>    to be modified as in (2).) 
> 
> 2. Use xfig on the "fig" file to add text and blank out unwanted 
>    material as appropriate. Save the resultant "fig" file (which now
>    becomes your personalised "template" file), and generate a 
>    PostScript file directly or go to (3).
> 
> 3. If the "template" file has already been modified for your
>    own plots, then omit (2) and use fig2dev to generate a PostScript
>    or PDF file directly from the "fig" file.
> 
> xfig is very easy to use and produces both simple and understandable
> "fig" files and robust PostScript files.