On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:18:31PM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > What do I use? I need a spartan simple tool like magicpoint itself. Is > xfig the right choice? What about inkscape? I am somewhat excited with SVG. > Are ther other image manipulation tools out there? I guess gimp would be an > overkill. And openoffice is not meant for UNIX geeks.:-)
metapost is great if you need figures with tex captions (though it's a programmer's tool). I'm also partial to kig, in kde-edu, which is great for geometric stuff. Gimp is a fine pixel drawing program. Depends a lot if you can live with pixel-art, or if you really need vectorial stuff. We don't have a working port of inkscape yet. This is a big issue with boehm-gc based software: this library tends to work rather badly on OpenBSD for now. There are also a few drawing programs in koffice, and they tend to get better from release to release...
