xfig+Hebrew

[Dov Grobgeld]

Good you solved the problem, but regarding inkscape I have to disagree.
Inkscape is using pango as font layout engine, which is as good as any of
the top font layout engines available (uniscribe, qt, OsX). It had problems
in the past if you used old fonts without advanced opentype tables, but
that too seems to be ok in later versions. But perhaps your problem was
input? Could you describe what annoyed you in more detail?

Regadrs,
Dov

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 06:46, Avraham Rosenberg <for.avraham at gmail.com>wrote:

>     Thank very much Guy, Shlomi and Nadav for their answers. I was very
> pleasantly surprized by Open Office draw, which is, probably the way I will
> go.
>   The UTF8 capability of inkscape seems to be an afterthought. It it very
> inconvenient to use it for more that adding a couple of characters.
>   Upon browsing some revues and tutorials on the net, dia seems to be as
> much American-English oriented as xfig. It may be better for diagrasms,
> but, in this case, I need to make a sketch of the water installation on the
> roof. I cherish old, antiquated xfig for such jobs, because of the very
> simple structure of its files, which makes it easy to start with a very
> imprecise sketch, as befitting my lack of skill in the matter, and then
> change the values in the file, to the correct ones. As long as these
> sketches were for my exclusive use, the lack of localization was
> irrelevant, but now I wish to distribute copies to the neighbours living
> under the same roof.
>   Cheers, Avraham
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