
ivtools drawtool is an extended version of idraw with double-buffered graphics display, a human-readable native format for drawing save/restore, Motif-looking toolbar and pull-down menus, and several extensions to the import/export and multi-viewer mechanisms as well. Here is a picture of the user interface. Here is the drawtool document for the drawing shown in that picture.
Usage
Launch drawtool directly on one these graphic formats, using helper apps:
| JPEG | djpeg |
| GIF | giftopnm |
| arbitrary PostScript | pstoedit |
| idraw-formatted PostScript | nothing |
Or use anytopnm (from either pbmplus or ivtools) from the import dialog box to convert a wider
variety of raster formats to a format readable by ivtools drawtool:
XBM, TIFF, and 8/16 bit binary/ANSI PBM/PGM/PPM.
Read more about using the import/export capabilities of drawtool here and here
If you're running Linux download an ivtools drawtool binary (or build from source) and add the following to your ~/.mailcap file:
application/ov-idraw; drawtool %s
to test launching drawtool when a drawtool document is clicked.
The web server at www.vectaport.com is set up to send out .ovs or .drs files as MIME type application/ov-idraw. If downloading an ivtools drawtool file from another server, you'd want to add this to your ~/.mime-types file:
application/ov-idraw; ovs
application/ov-idraw; drs
Other stuff
| hyper-collage of anteaters |
| adding Kanji input to drawtool (revised Kanji patch) |
| drawtool redraws Debian logo |
Other free software drawing editors similar to idraw and drawtool:
| ivtools drawing editors | idraw | drawtool | comdraw | flipbook | graphdraw |