File Extension FIG

The FIG file extension is used in the identification of Xfig Drawing files. The files with the FIG file extension contain line drawings that are saved using the Xfig file format. They are stored as vector images that could include shapes, splines, text objects, arrows, arcs, and lines. The FIG file extension could also include colors, patterns and images. The format Xfig had originally been developed for the drawing program Xfig but is presently recognized by other drawing applications. Xfig is an interactive drawing tool that runs on the X11R4 or Version 11 Release 4 of the X Windows System and later, on a majority of UNIX-compatible platforms. This application is a freeware available by means of anonymous FTP. In the FIG file extension, the figures could be drawn by using objects like boxeds, splines, lines, circles, text, curves, and so on. Image importation in formats like JPEG, EPSF, GIF and the like is also possible. The objects could be created, modified, moved, and deleted. Attributes like line or color styles could be selected in a variety of ways. There are 35 fonts that are available for text and could also include the Latin-1 characters like '' or ''. The application saves figures in the native FIG format but they could be converted in a variety of formats like PostScript, JPEG, HP-GL, GIF, and so on. Xfig has facilities for printing figures to a printer that is PostScript as well.