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Configuring your browser to launch drawing editors as helper apps

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Download 0.8.3 from SourceForge or Vectaport   (download page)

June 12th 2000   CHANGES
Documentation for 0.8.3 from SourceForge or Vectaport   online copy
Debian packages available
ivtools-0.7.10 Linux binaries available.   Sept. 14th 1999

overview
  • Drawing Editors
  • Interpreters
  • Frameworks
  • Glyph Examples
  • Why try ivtools?

    • more info

  • Documentation
  • Change Logs
  • ivtools FAQ
  • Mailing Lists

    • getting ivtools

  • Download
  • Build on Unix Instructions
  • Build on Windows NT Instructions
  • Debian packages

    • activities

  • Things To Do with Drawing Editors
  • Network Export/Import
  • Drawing Editors as Web Browser Helper Apps
  • Other Tools that work with ivtools
  • Hierarchical Drawings by URL
  • Large Image Tiling
  • Things To Program

    • ivtools (pronounced eye-vee-tools) is a suite of free X Windows drawing editors for PostScript, TeX, and web graphics production, as well as an embeddable and extendable vector graphic shell

    It is made up of layered collection of free C++ frameworks that vertically augment the mechanisms of Unidraw.

  • an application framework for developing direct manipulation graphical editors (drawing editors).
  • a GUI widget framework built on TeX structured document concepts
  • A command interpreter with network capability.
  • an extra layer of drawing editor application framework
  • a layer for integrating the command interpreter into the drawing editor
  • a layer for multi-frame applications
  • a layer for graph/network applications

    • More information on the history of ivtools source.
    How to configure a web browser to launch drawing editors as helper apps
    SourceForge services: Mailing Lists Project Page CVS Copyleft Survey

    ivtools optionally uses the ACE framework for networking and the clippoly library for polygon intersection.
    [ ace_button ] [ clippoly_button ]

    GUI Toolkit and PostScript Resource pages
    Eric Foster-Johnson's Programming X APIs. Brad A. Myers' User Interface Software Tools.
    Li-Cheng (Andy) Tai's GUI Toolkit, Framework Page. C/C++ Users Journal Source Links: XWindows.
    Christopher B. Browne's X Development Tools. Luc Devroye's PostScript Page.
    PostScript and GhostScript Page.

    [targetjr button] Instructions for building version 3.1 of Target Jr on top of ivtools alternate site.
    related announcement
    [mixviews button] Instructions for building MiXViews on top of ivtools

    ivtools is supported by Vectaport Inc., IET Inc., and SourceForge at VA Linux.

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