My go-to graphics packages are still Gimp for raster / Inkscape for vector graphics.
Started using Inkscape in 2007 to illustrate a math paper, and been using it ever since whenever I needed to TeX something up.
Started using Inkscape in 2007 to illustrate a math paper, and been using it ever since whenever I needed to TeX something up.
That reminds me of this series of posts I read a while back:
• https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-1/
• https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-2/
• https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-3/
> I only recently came across TikZ which is an even more epic way to TeX up fancy diagrams (you "program" them). Still use inkscape for most stuff though.
Check out link 2 in particular there.
Now I'm no longer using TeX daily and kind of regret boxing myself in.
I find that I'm either working with teams that are 100% "TeX all the way" or 0% "please no."
For tidy circuit diagrams the CircuitSymbols plugin [2] produces exquisite results by hooking into Latex's circuitTikz package and dumping the rendered result on the canvas. Typically I generate a bunch of circuit promitives and then connect them afterwards using snaps and the line tool.
[1] https://inkscape.org/~seebk/%E2%98%85latextext-render-latex-...
[2] https://inkscape.org/pt-br/~fsmMLK/%E2%98%85circuitsymbols
edit: wording