TeXCAD4.2

TeXCAD is an approachable software application that provides you with standard drawing tools to tweak and enhance pictures made in LaTeX. It offers support for macros and formulas, among others.

No setup necessary

The tool is not wrapped in a setup package, which makes it portable. This means that you can drop the program files in any location on the disk and just click the executable to launch TeXCAD. Unlike most installers, it doesn't add new entries to the Windows registry or Start menu, so it doesn't leave anything behind after removal.

Clear-cut interface and drawing tools

The interface is represented by three windows: the main design frame, drawing tools, and line settings. You can open LaTeX pictures (.pic format) or create new ones from scratch, as well as explore the drawing utilities with text, the \put command, straight lines, frame or filled boxes, ovals, circles, filled circles, and Bezier curves.

Customize lines and edit properties

When it comes to line settings, the software application lets you makes the lines thick or thin, as well as plain, dotted or dashed. Plus, you can define the dot gap, symbol for dotted curves and dash length, as well as add an arrow to the head, end or both ends.It's also possible to edit the text or line properties of objects which already exist in the design, pick or drop objects, perform affine transformations, rotate or translate items, make them symmetric, as well as save and play macros for repetitive tasks.

Configure program settings

You can hide the windows with the drawing tools and line settings if necessary, modify the default colors for the background, normal and picked objects, along with shadows, hide the grid or switch it to lines or points mode, modify the LaTeX picture extension and backup, or switch to another language for the interface.

Evaluation and conclusion

No error dialogs popped up in our tests, and the app didn't hang or crash. It left a small footprint on system resources throughout our evaluation, thanks to the fact that it needed low CPU and RAM to work properly.All in all, TeXCAD comes loaded with intuitive options and configuration settings to help you adjust pictures developed in LaTeX.