Xfigfrag, v.1.1
Author: Éric Colin de Verdière 
, 2006.06.06.
Note:
(2009.11.28) I do not plan to update this tool in the future. Feel free to contact me
if you use it and want to improve it.
Introduction
Xfigfrag is a tool for inserting arbitrary LaTeX code in figures created by
xfig. It is used in a similar way as the psfrag package but, unlike the
latter, xfigfrag also works with pdflatex; it can thus be used as a
`pdffrag' package. As a drawback, xfigfrag only works with figures created
by xfig.
Why Xfigfrag?
There are several methods for inserting LaTeX code in figures. Natural
requirements for this are:
that the figures can be scaled easily, e.g. to have the same width as
the current page;
that the scaling does not affect the size of the text (which must be of
the same size as the text of the whole LaTeX document, regardless of the
magnification of the figure).
The second requirement is not met when using special text in xfig figures,
exporting the figure in .pstex and .pstex_t formats, or using MetaPost.
It is still possible to export xfig figures directly into LaTeX format, but
there are severe restrictions in terms of drawing capabilities. Finally,
the psfrag package is adequate with respect to the two criteria above, but
it inherently uses the structure of the eps files, so it only works with
latex, not pdflatex.
The xfigfrag tool is designed to overcome these difficulties. The user
draws the figure using xfig, exports it into two special formats using (a
patched version of) fig2dev, includes the figure in the LaTeX document
using the graphicx package (\includegraphics command) and inserts text in
the figure using the same syntax as the psfrag package.
Download
Version 1.1: Full package (tar.gz file),
README file, CHANGELOG file.
Version 1.0: Full package (tar.gz file),
README file.
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