CTAN update: fig2vect 1.1.0 - Yet another Fig to vector converter

[CTAN Announcements]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Dirk Krause submitted an update to his

  fig2vect

package.

The fig2vect program converts figures from jFig, XFig and WinFig to 
MetaPost, EPS, PDF, TeX and SVG.

Program highlights:
 - Designed for use with LaTeX/pdfLaTeX. Handling of special text is left 
   up to LaTeX, for non-special text you can choose whether or not to use 
   LaTeX.  For text handled by LaTeX you have three choices:
    - Use the fonts exactly as specified in the Fig file.
    - Convert to use fonts in the same features 
      (serif/sans-serif/monospaced, normal/bold, upright/italic).
      This allows to use the same font families in the graphics as in the 
      document where the graphics is included.
    - Write no font selection commands (text contains commands itself if 
      necessary).

  - X-splines are approximated by a sequence of Bezier spline segments.
  - Fill patterns are drawn by vector graphics operations.
  - Image width and height are found by inspecting graphics elements 
    (except texts), the paper format name is not used here.

Location on CTAN: /support/fig2vect
Summary description: Conversion program from *.fig to *.mp, *.eps, *.pdf, *.svg and *.tex
License type: bsd

Announcement text:
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Changed behaviour: Running with default settings the program
now produces best quality instead of smallest output files.
When upgrading from 1.0.x and below you should create a
new fig2vect.cfg file based on fig2vect.cfg.sample.
Bugfix: In earlier versions there were compilation errors
when zlib or libbz2 were not found. This is fixed now.
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Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf