RustFig

RustFig is a reimplementation of xfig, the classic vector drawing program for figures in papers and documents, written in Rust. It reads and writes xfig's Fig files (Fig 1.3 to 3.2 on reading, Fig 3.2 on writing), so old figures open unchanged and new ones still work with xfig and fig2dev. It looks and behaves like xfig, and runs natively on macOS, Windows and Linux.

For TeX users it exports through a Rust port of fig2dev to every one of fig2dev's languages: PDF, EPS and PostScript, SVG, the combined pdftex/pstex pairs (graphics plus a LaTeX overlay for the texts), LaTeX picture, epic/eepic, pict2e, TikZ, PSTricks, PiCTeX, METAPOST, METAFONT and more, plus Asymptote. Texts marked with the TeX flag are passed to LaTeX unchanged, and can be shown typeset on the canvas. PDF and SVG files can be opened or merged as editable objects.

Contents

• doc/rustfig-manual.pdf: the user manual (built from docs/manual/*.md).
• The source code: a Cargo workspace (Cargo.toml, Cargo.lock, crates/, apps/, xtask/, assets/); the manual's pages in docs/manual/. The full repository (plans, packaging, web build) is at https://github.com/FabianHassler/rustfig.
• libraries/: xfig's figure libraries (electronics, Feynman diagrams, flowcharts, UML and many more), opened from the Library mode.

Installing

Ready-made packages for macOS, Windows and Linux, a Homebrew tap, Scoop and winget manifests are on the project page: https://github.com/FabianHassler/rustfig/releases

To build from this source you need Rust 1.92 or later (https://rustup.rs):

cargo build --release --locked -p rustfig -p rustfig-cli

Cargo downloads the dependencies, among them fig2dev's Rust port (crates figbase and fig2dev-rs-lib, https://github.com/FabianHassler/fig2dev). The programs are target/release/rustfig (the drawing program) and target/release/rustfig-cli (conversions on the command line, including fig2dev's own command line as rustfig-cli fig2dev).

RustFig ships no fonts: texts use the fonts installed on the system (the TeX Gyre fonts of a TeX installation if present), with built-in fallbacks.

Licence

RustFig is free software, licensed under the MIT licence or the Apache licence 2.0, at your option (LICENSE-MIT, LICENSE-APACHE). The parts ported from xfig and fig2dev, and xfig's figure libraries, keep the xfig licence (LICENSE-xfig, a permissive notice). See NOTICE and ASSETS.md for details.

Author

Fabian Hassler. Bugs and suggestions: https://github.com/FabianHassler/rustfig/issues