TeXCAD 4.3

Short description:

TeXCAD is a program for drawing or retouching {picture}s in LaTeX.
The features of environment {picture} are quite limited, but it presents the great advantage of requiring no add-on and being displayed on all devices.
You also enjoy the same fonts, macros, formulas as elsewhere in your LaTeX document.
In addition, TeXCAD extends the original {picture} capabilities, even without any obligatory LaTeX package, class or style sheet.
Furthermore, you can still switch on some supported add-ons, but are not obliged to.

Distribution

TeXCAD is free software and is distributed, including its sources, under the GNU General Public License.
© 2003..2012 Free Software Foundation.

Download

All files are on the SourceForge project page.

• Binaries
  • MS Windows "debug" version (tc_*_wd.zip), with full run-time checks.
    Recommended for most PCs. Runs on the Windows NT,2K,XP,... series. May not work on Windows 95,98,ME with little RAM.
    
  • MS Windows "optimized" version (tc_*_wo.zip).
    Recommended only on a slow (< 100Mhz) computer and / or for Windows 95,98,ME with little RAM.
• Sources, examples, tests : tc_*_s.zip - building instructions are included, cf TeXCAD.pdf.

Snapshots

• New figures, toolbars in TC 4.1; TC 4.3 interface:
  
• Circles and discs of any size, lines of any slope (even in "pure" LaTeX mode!):
  
• Picture saved with GNUPlot (LaTeX output), reworked with TeXCAD:
  
• Other snapshots:
  

Contact for the current project

Please e-mail to .

For a little sponsoring (just a glass' price)...    

Visit also the TeXCAD SourceForge project page!  

Authors

Georg Horn, Jörn Winkelmann		Original TeXCAD for DOS (1989-1994), in Pascal, up to v. 3.2
Gautier de Montmollin		Translation to Ada, TeXCAD 4.x system, Windows version
?		Versions for other platforms (GTK, Mac in discussion) - please contact me (Gautier) for coordination

Thanks to...

• AdaCore, for the free GNAT Ada compiler.
• David Botton, for his GNAVI Rapid Application Development system, in particular his wonderful GWindows programming library and his help to this project.
• Aonix, as they provide a free version of their Ada compiler, also used for testing the core of TeXCAD.

Other project(s) belonging to the TeXCAD family:

Here is a (probably incomplete) genealogy of the TeXCAD family:

So here are a few cousins of TeXCAD 4.3:

• TeXCAD 2.x for Linux.
• Texcad32 for Windows - features parametric curves and PostScript outputs.