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\Bluelatex vs Xfig

A side-by-side look at \Bluelatex and Xfig. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

\Bluelatex

\Bluelatex

Office & Productivity

Bluelatex is a TeX typesetting engine designed to generate high quality PDF documents. It is based on pdfTeX and has enhanced capability to handle complex documents with lots of images, fonts, metadata, etc.

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Xfig

Xfig

Photos & Graphics

Xfig is an open-source vector graphics editor used to draw diagrams and figures. It supports objects like circles, boxes, lines, spline curves, text, etc. and can export to formats like PDF and PostScript. Common uses are drawing diagrams like flowcharts, UML diagrams, network maps, etc.

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