Through the medium of www.tex.ac.uk uploader, Nicola Talbot writes:

Name of contribution: jpgfdraw Author's name: Nicola Talbot Location on CTAN: graphics/jpgfdraw Summary description: vector graphics application for LaTeX users License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:

Jpgfdraw is a graphics application written in Java.

You can use Jpgfdraw to:

• Construct shapes using lines, moves and cubic Bezier segments.

• Edit shapes by changing the defining control points.

• Incorporate text and bitmap images (for annotation and

background effects).

• Extract the parameters for TeX's parshape command

and for shapepar (defined in the shapepar package).

• Construct frames for use with the flowfram package.

• Pictures can be saved in Jpgfdraw's native binary format (JDR)

or native ascii format (AJR) or can be exported as:

• a pgfpicture environment for use in LaTeX documents with the pgf package

• a LaTeX2e package based on the flowfram package

• an encapsulated postscript file

• a PNG image file

• SVG image file

• Alternative text can be specified to use when exporting to a

LaTeX file (e.g. if the text contains symbols or if it should be set in maths mode).

• Mappings can be used to specify what LaTeX font declarations

should be used when exporting to a LaTeX file.

Home page: http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/jpgfdraw/ HTML manual: http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/jpgfdraw/manual/ FAQ: http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/jpgfdraw/faq/

i've installed the package as nicola suggests; thanks for the upload.

Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/jpgfdraw.html or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/jpgfdraw

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team