Check this out:

Dia for Windows: http://www.users.qwest.net/~oldiesloon/wls062664.htm

Inkscape for Windows:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.48.3.1/

Gimp for Windows: http://www.gimp.org/windows/

What's cool is all three are free software, so you can try them, full
power, as long as you like, and if you don't like them, all you've lost
is the bandwidth of downloading the installer.

HTH

SteveT


On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:24:49 -0700, William R. Buckley said:
> Thank you Steve and Murat.
> 
> My OS is of course Windows (Vista Ultimate), so the solutions have 
> to work in that environment.
> 
> Typically I would use Ventura Publisher but, it seems that is now 
> an abandoned product of Corel Corporation, so migration is the 
> obvious path.
> 
> I know a little of the various file formats, and some tools from 
> Adobe might work.  I am not so familiar with these tools, however, 
> so some time to review will be necessary.
> 
> I am also noticing an apparent failure of the tabular operator 
> not to work.  In particular, I am setting columns with C and p{2cm} 
> the p parameter column does not yield a change in column width.
> 
> I would like to have a two or three column table, where each column 
> is itself a two column table, with the three major columns each 
> separated by some significant space.  These three sets of two columns 
> define a coding (in binary) and a mnemonic.  So, it would look like
> 
>  000000 RX            001000 LDR              100000 SR
> 
> 
> What I get does not have the columns aligned in centered form; left 
> and right are constantly changing, so columns are messy, or even 
> hard to see.
> 
> When I gain some more competence in TeX, I will return to using LyX.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> wrb
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org [mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org] On
> > Behalf Of Steve Litt
> > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 10:48 AM
> > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> > Cc: w...@wrbuckley.com
> > Subject: Re: Graphics Tools
> > 
> > On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:44:55 -0700, William R. Buckley said:
> > > Working with TeX is a bit of a challenge, since it seems not to
> > > include much support for abstract drawing.  I have need for
> > > figures to appear in a paper, and am not familiar with the
> > > toolset usually employed for use to make drawn images suitable
> > > for use with TeX.
> > >
> > > Can you please make a few suggestions.
> > >
> > > wrb
> > 
> > I use dia for diagrams (kind of what Windows guys use Visio for),
> > Inkscape for vector drawing, and Gimp for raster drawing.
> > 
> > dia exports to .png, which can import directly into LyX. Inkscape
> > uses .svg, which can import directly into LyX, for a native format.
> > Gimp can write just about any kind of raster format.
> > 
> > HTH
> > 
> > SteveT
> > 
> > Steve Litt                *  http://www.troubleshooters.com/
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