[sdiy] Question on using EAGLE for Front panel designs

[Neil Johnson]

On 25 Jul 2007, at 20:30, Anthony Rolando wrote:

> Thanx Tom, I have checked out that program as well as others. What  
> they all have in common is that they run on Windows. I have only an  
> iBook computer, which is why I was going for the EAGLE panel design  
> option. Additionally I actually like the look of the vector drawn  
> text in EAGLE.
>
> Perhaps I should buy a cheap Windows laptop???

There are other solutions that you can run on an iBook.
For example:

1/ JGIF - a Java clone of XFIG
2/ OpenOffice - the Drawing package is quite good, and you have lots  
of fonts to play with!

If you're keen enough it is possible to get TGIF to compile for OSX,  
or through DarwinPorts.  I used TGIF for a lot of diagrams in the  
past and it is really very nice to use.  It is particularly suited to  
automating a lot of the process of producing a drawing in a format  
for putting into a LaTeX document (I used it a lot for my thesis,  
with a large makefile that autogenerated everything).

Hope this helps,
Neil
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