TeXCad32

Changing the Language

Downloads

Changes since TeXCad32 Ver 4.3

Highlights:

• Runs from Win95
• WYSIWYG-Design
• Parametrised curves and graphs of functions composed with +,-,*,/,^, sqrt x, exp x, ln x, sin x, cos x, arcsin x, arccos x..... and all what can be made out of this
• LaTeX labels
• Export to emtex-specials or postscript
• Pdf-support via postscript
• Color supports
• Drawing of sets of curves
• Clipping
• Three or four linewidths
• Color and linewidth are editable interactively
• TeXCad-compatibility (.PIC-files)
• Scaling and moving
• Rotation
• Macro support

Drawbacks:

• The program is not yet finished and will never be
• Some error messages generated by the programming language Delphi(c) are still in german
• It has some buggy points. If you find one, tell me here

No longer supported commands are

• Bezier curves
• Ovals have to be constructed out of single elements
• Vectors, because arbitrary directions are possible

If you cannot (or don't want to) do without : TeXCAD 4.1 is another Texcad-successor that supports this.

Examples are given on the german page

How to draw pictures

Best: start the program and play around. Then read the manual and follow the example at the end.

How to include pictures in Latex documents

This is described in a separate document.

Licence

To Texcad32 the LPPL (Latex Public Project Licence) applies.
If you continue to use TeXCad32 I would appreciate if you send me a picture postcard.

Peter Furlan
Erbstollen 12
44225 Dortmund
Germany

Plans for changes or supplements in version 4

• The colors for picking are choosable
• Lines through given points (splines)

Ideas or sugestions are welcome.

Plans for TeXCad32 Version 5 (even if it's not clear whether this will come )

• Closed Lines that can be filled with patterns or color in ps/pdf-mode
• All actions are put to an protocol, and with this undo and scripting

Hall of Fame

TeXCad32 is one of the successors of Texcad of G. Horn and J. Winkelmann. More ideas coming into this version came from Prof. Dr. K. Menke, R.Ebe and M. Mayr-Willius and the people who developped Turbo-Pascal/Delphi. The manual would have been even more ugly without Koma-Script.