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This is Gerben Wierda's free binary distribution of Xfig and transfig for Mac OS X. Xfig is a drawing program that needs the X11 windowing system to function.

To make it run pretty, add the line in ~/.Xdefaults: 

*customization: -color

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Xfig i-Package release notes

2006/11/03:
• Updated to xfig 3.2.5-alpha5 and transfig-3.2.5-alpha7 as 3.2.4 does not compile on 10.3.9 ppc with the updated gcc compiler. No Xaw3d support (app crashes immediately on menu use). This i-Package is no longer  maintained as the underlying software is no longer maintained and unstable.
2006/10/29:
• i-Packages running the remove phase as part of the prepare phase need the remove script as dependency for the prepare script in the TOC
2006/10/11:
• Requires i-Installer 2.83 as we want to force people to update to that version as earlier versions contain a potentially harmful bug.
2006/09/23:
• Requires i-Installer 2.79 as we want to force people to update to that version as earlier versions contain a potentially harmful bug.
2005/05/09:
• Uninstall was incomplete
2004/01/31:
• fig2dev and friends were missing. Another case of stuff that only compiles when you set CC=gcc2. Anyway, they're back.
• Fragged the package so that future program updates will download/upload faster (hopefully).
2004/01/30:
• Added .Xdefaults remark to README
2004/01/30:
• Previous build was broken. This one works as far as i can see (but I am no user so I cannot tell for certain). This is version 3.2.4, linked against Xaw3d 1.5E (for which 3.2.4 needs a patch from the Xaw3d site to prevent xfig crashing)
• Package requires an install of Xaw3d.
• Package requires i-Installer 2.45.0 or later to install
2004/01/29:
• Rebuilt and released to all repositories
2004/01/20:
• Rebuilt by i-Installer 2.41.0. This package still needs i-Installer 2.27.0 or later to install.
2004/01/14:
• This package needs i-Installer 2.27.0 or later to install.
2003/03/25:
• Less strict test for X11 in the configuration stage as well.
2003/03/13:
• Less strict test for X11.
2003/03/13:
• This package needs i-Installer 2.12.0 or later to install.
2003/03/10:
• First trial release. version 3.2.4
• Note: to be able to export using ghostscript you need to add /usr/local/bin to the PATH that is active in the X11 environment
• Note: I have not tested this much. I created a picture with two circles, saved and reopened it and exported it succesfully to PDF. Things like documentation did not work because Xfig wanted netscape. I have not tried fonts.