Tgif (program)
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Stable release
4.2.5
/ June 28, 2011[1]
Written inC
| Tgif | |
|---|---|
 Screenshot of Tgif 2.4.5 on Ubuntu 12.04 | |
| Original author(s) | William Chia-Wei Cheng |
| Stable release | 4.2.5
/ June 28, 2011[1] |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Linux, RISC OS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Debian, SunOS |
| Available in | 2 languages |
List of languages English, Japanese | |
| Type | Graphics software |
| License | QPL |
| Website | bourbon |
Tgif (pronounced t-g-i-f) is an Xlib-based interactive 2-D drawing tool (using vector graphics) under X11 on Linux and most UNIX platforms (including Mac OS X and cygwin on Windows). It was developed in 1990 and is free software released under the QPL license.
Because Tgif was developed long before a standard way for drawing programs to work, one might find it unfamiliar to use in a number of ways:
- Although Tgif mention point sizes, it uses a unit that is 1/128 of an inch for point sizes.
- While there is an option to display font sizes in points, the sizes are still subject to rounding to the nearest 1/128".
- Unlike modern drawing programs, Tgif uses spline curves instead of Bézier curves.
- Also unlike modern drawing programs, Tgif does not allow the user to select a colour from a color wheel or through controls that allow the user to adjust colour values. Instead, Tgif provides a list with a short list of colours. If the user wishes to use a colour that is not in the list, they would need to add their desired colour to the list. This list is then saved with the currently-open drawing.
- Usable fonts are listed in a configuration file. If the user wishes to use fonts that are not on the list, they would have to change the configuration file.
- Only fonts in the ISO 8859-1 encoding (i.e. "square") CJK fonts and symbols or dingbat fonts can be used.
- Rescaling can lead to ugly defect, which is most likely due to both the use of integer coordinates and roundoff errors.
- Because Tgif uses Xlib (which predated modern Unicode support) Tgif does not and cannot support Unicode.