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FlowframTk

FlowframTk is a vector graphics application written in Java that replaces jpgfdraw. (Essentially, the code from jpgfdraw was refactored, new features were added, and the name was changed.)

You can use FlowframTk to:

• Construct shapes using lines, moves and cubic Bézier segments.
• Edit shapes by changing the defining control points.
• Add symmetry to shapes.
• Convert shapes into rotational, scaled or spiral patterns
• Incorporate text and bitmap images (for annotation and background effects).
• Display text along a shape.
• Extract the parameters for TeX's \parshape command and for \shapepar (provided by the shapepar package).
• Construct frames for use with the flowfram package and export as a class or package.
• Pictures can be saved in FlowframTk's native open binary format (.jdr) or native open plain text format (.ajr) or can be exported as:
  • a pgfpicture environment for use in LaTeX documents with the pgf package;
  • a complete single-paged LaTeX document that contains the pgf image code;
  • a LaTeX package or class based on the flowfram package;
  • a PNG image file;
  • a PDF image file;
  • a multi-paged PDF document file that uses the flowfram package.
  (Export functions for PDF requires a TeX distribution. Export to PS and SVG is still available but needs to be specifically enabled as from v0.8.8.)
• Alternative text can be specified to use when exporting to a LaTeX file.
• Mappings can be used to specify what LaTeX font declarations should be used when exporting to a LaTeX file.
• Accompanying Applications:

  jdrview

  A lightweight jdr/ajr image viewer

  jdrconverter

  Convert to or from jdr/ajr file format

The export to LaTeX file functions use low-level pgf basic layer commands, which aren't particularly easy to read but are faster to compile than the higher-level commands that require extra processing to parse the syntax and perform additional calculations. The primary purpose of FlowframTK is to provide a graphical interface that can generate complicated code that's hard to write manually.