xfig 3.1.4 is available on ftp.x.org in /contrib/applications/drawing_tools/xfig.
Be sure to set binary mode when transferring.

There is also an incremental patch file to convert from 3.1.3 to 3.1.4.  This
is in the file 3.1.3.to.3.1.4.  You may use the 'patch' program to
automatically apply the changes to your 3.1.3 release.

There is also a newer version of TransFig (3.1.2).  TransFig contains the post-
processor needed by xfig to convert fig files to one of several output formats,
such as PostScript, pic, LaTeX etc.  The TransFig package is in the directory
/contrib/applications/drawing_tools/transfig.

Xfig is a menu-driven tool that allows the user to draw and manipulate objects
interactively in an X window.  The resulting pictures can be saved, printed
on postscript printers or converted to a variety of other formats (e.g. to
allow inclusion in LaTeX documents).

*** You also need to get the jpeg distribution tar file from /contrib/libraries
*** if you don't already have jpeg version 5b installed on your system.

Following is a description of the CHANGES for xfig 3.1.4.

- Brian V. Smith
- Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
- I don't speak for LBL; they don't pay me enough for that.

=============================================================================
Version 3.1
=============================================================================

Patchlevel 4 (Aug, 16, 1995)

NOTE 1: The Display PostScript code is not supported anymore until some kind
	user can debug it for me, as I have no access to a server with DPS
	extensions.  Use ghostscript for rendering your EPS files.  It gives
	a color image on the xfig canvas now anyway.

NOTE 2: Because Unisys has stated that they will not charge royalties for the
	use of the LZW compression algorithm in *FREE* programs, xfig will
	continue to support importing and exporting of GIF images.
	However, be aware that if you sell xfig, for example as part of a CD-ROM
	package with freeware, you may be liable for paying royalties to Unisys.
	The authors of xfig and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory cannot
	be held responsible in any case.

NOTE 3: Because of the patent/licensing issue with Unisys and the LZW compression
	algorithm used in GIF files, the author of ghostscript has decided to
	remove GIF support from that program.
	xfig will now use PCX output from ghostscript when importing EPS files.
	This means that you must compile ghostscript with the pcx256 and pbmraw
	drivers.
	Additionally, there is a bug in the pcx driver in Aladdin Ghostscript
	versions prior to 3.32, which writes an incorrect pcx file for images
	with odd width (not even).  There is a compile-time flag set (the
	default) to make xfig add one pixel to the width of an odd-width image
	when it reads in the pcx output from Ghostscript.
	If you have Aladdin Ghostscript 3.32 or newer (which wasn't released
	as of this writing) you may comment out that flag and your images will
	have the proper width.  However, one pixel extra in width shouldn't
	matter for most imported eps files.

NOTE 4: The -textoutline (resource textoutline) option has been moved into the 
	-debug option.  This makes xfig draw a red box around text objects for
	debugging purposes.

NEW FEATURES:

o JPEG (JFIF) images can be imported and exported - see Examples/pictures.fig
	Unless you have an image (picture object) in your figure, you may not
	gain very much by exporting in JPEG over GIF because of the nature of
	compression used in both methods.  GIF is usually better for line
	drawings or drawings with large blocks of continuous color (e.g. filled
	polygons).  JPEG is usually better for compressing images.
	The quality factor for exporting JPEG is fixed at 75.  This seems to be
	fine for figures containing only solid objects (no images) and adequate
	for figures containing imported images (GIF, JPEG, etc.).
o New features in the Picture Object edit popup:
	1) Capture a screen image to a GIF file to use for importing.
	2) Call an image editor (e.g. xv) to edit an imported image. New
	   resource for the editor: "Fig.image_editor: xv" (default)
	3) Popup a file browser to look for images to import.
	all from Jim Daley (jdaley@cix.compulink.co.uk)
o the points of arrow heads don't protrude past the endpoints of the object
o when drawing polyline/polygon or spline you can delete newly created points
	by pressing shift-mouse button 1
o when saving figure, original is first renamed to file.bak to make backup file
o smartlinks improved - lines touching boxes inside compound object will be
	moved when compound is moved with smart links mode on
	From Ian Brown
o -help option to print all command-line options to xfig
o can now change boxes to arc-boxes and vice versa with same button that
	converts lines <-> splines.
o label in fill style panel added to separate shaded fill from pattern fill
	(if the pen and fill colors are both black or white it was impossible
	to distinguish the patterns from the 100% shade fill)
o when adding a new user-defined color, it is automatically selected for
	modification without having to click on the cell.
o point positioning now has five resolutions: arbitrary, 1/16" (1mm),
	1/4" (5mm), 1/2" (10mm) and 1" (20mm)
o increased resolution of dimensions in message window when drawing/moving
	objects from 2 to 4 decimal places
o new meta sequence "%f" in print parameters is replaced with current filename
	for printing. Can be used for job name to printer.
	(e.g. lpr ... -J %f ...)
o version/patchlevel added to error handler messages to identify version of xfig
o new export option for MetaFont language
o new resources for ruler and unit box fonts: *topruler.font, *sideruler.font
	and *unitbox.font.  See Fig.ad.
o new resource (Fig.rulerthick:) and command-line arg (-rulerthick) to set
	thickness of rulers (height of top ruler and width of side ruler)
o note about patch for HP compilers in README file (see "Possible problems...")
o on abort, xfig does a cd to the original directory where it was started so
	that any core dump will be in the original directory
o strncasecmp and strcasecmp routines provided for those systems that don't have
	them.  See the Imakefile . From Fred Appelman (Fred.Appelman@cv.ruu.nl)

BUG FIXES:

o fig.h includes sys/types.h for BSD and Mips systems and excludes errno,
	sys_nerr and sys_errlist for BSD
	from Kurt J. Lidl (lidl@va.pubnix.com)
o error in path for xpm.h in resources.h
o reversed #elif conditions in fig.h for linux/osf defs of random() and srandom()
o text size problem when reading file with text when zoom != 1.0 fixed
o deleted user colors still showed up in color menu in "edit object" panel
o when rotating or flipping an object, the new position wasn't kept on the
	point positioning grid
o selecting drawing mode using keyboard accelerators now updates mouse
	indicator window
o undo of multiple copy (array place) now undos all objects
o undo of "figure load" properly sets "current filename" in File popup and
	"default filename" in Export popup back to original values
o undo of "figure load" does not set "figure modified" flag now
o changing the figure orientation to/from Landscape/Portrait is considered a
	figure modification for quitting/saving
o GIF export was not available if XPM not installed - rearranged order
o misplaced fclose() in f_readeps.c
o misdeclared function close_picfile() in f_readeps.c
o infinite loop when copying a line after scaling a compound using the move
	point mode
o bitmap image of Latex "Italic" font was mis-named "Italics"
o no more hard-wired setting of background for mode and indicator panels
	see Fig-color for more details
o font size for text objects adjusted if < 4 points or > 1000 when reading file
o update settings from object wasn't setting PostScript vs LaTeX flag when Font
	update indicator was enabled
o more checking done in popup edit panel for illegal line thickness or depth
o flip or rotate anchor/center point crosshair turned off when selecting new
	drawing mode
o seg fault in import/edit of picture object due to filename string corruption
o segfault sometimes on file load - gcc sometimes produces code which segfaults
	when doing ungetc on const string. Constant string copied for sscanf
o bug in computing the center of an arc when scaling
o smarter redrawing of objects in correct depth order when creating or modifying
	any object
o changed bestd = ~(((int) 1)<<31); to bestd = INT_MAX in f_neuclrtab.c due to
	temporary integer overflow inside the parentheses
o if -textoutline was specified, boxes appeared around text when exporting to
	bitmap-type format (e.g. GIF, XBM, etc)
o if the file message window popped up before canvas translations were installed
	a warning about the PasteCanv action not being found resulted.  This was
	fixed by narrowing the specification for the translation in the
	app-defaults file.
o bounding box for text objects was incorrect when loading file with zoom != 1.0
o bounding box for ellipses was incorrect with thick lines
o bug in handling text objects with \ at end
	patch from Andrew McParland (akm@rd.bbc.co.uk)
o mis-named character "acute" removed from the multi-key sequence list in man
	pages
o LaTeX font "Modern" changed to correct name "Sans Serif"
	new menu bitmap from Volker Kuhlmann  (kuhlmav@elec.canterbury.ac.nz)
o bounds calculation of objects didn't take line thickness into account
	correctly
o drawing very small arcs (e.g. when zoom is small) resulted in strange lines
	being drawn
o importing XPM images with undefined colors resulted in an X error.  Now xfig
	uses white for null color entries.
o problems with XFree86-3.1.  Get XFree86-3.1.1.
o some picture objects without filenames would be saved incorrectly and
	couldn't be re-read
o extraneous error message about inaccessible file when it contains bad Fig
	object
o bug in bounding box calculation created compound objects off by one unit
o added #include <sys/types.h> for ultrix file stat structure
o bug in scanning 8-bit character followed by a number in text object
	(e.g. \24355 should be the British Pound Sterling character followed
	by 55, not character (octal) 24355)
o in older Fig files (2.1) text at 90 degree angle was slightly jagged due to
	rounding error
o xfig doesn't coredump when delete window operation is done on xfig window or
	user logs out without quitting xfig
o bug in redefining user colors when merging figures
o single-point lines with arrowheads caused segfault - xfig now takes more
	steps to not allow arrowheads for those
o undo of delete arrowhead created arrowhead with current line thickness etc.
	instead of restoring original
o removed extraneous comma (,) from lp command for SYSV/SVR4 systems.
o changed the "-oPS" command-line option (used for SYSV systems) to "-T PS"
	in the Fid.ad app-defaults file.
o typo in FORMAT3.1 file - line and arrowhead thicknesses units are 1/80 inch,
	not Fig units.  Also, dash/dotted size/spacing are in 1/80 inch units.
o some compilers don't like empty .c files (e.g. when XPM is not compiled in)
	static dum_function() placed in f_readxpm.c and f_wrxpm.c for that case
o bug in #include for xpm.h - X11/xpm.h was appended to XPMINCDIR - removed X11/
o added #ifdef ultrix to include <sys/types.h> which is needed for <sys/stat.h>
o black and white colors in colorpanel were set to fore/background colors
	instead of black and white (problem when -bg and/or -fg used)
	from Matthias Braun (browny@ise.fhg.de)
o length of line reported when drawing in Mountain or Mountain/Manhattan mode
	was behind by one point positioning unit until new point was established