Menus

Entries xfig has are named as in xfig; RustFig's own entries follow them. An entry greyed out is not available in the current situation (nothing selected, nothing to undo).

File

New, Open, Merge, Save, Save As, Export, Import picture (RustFig), Exit, then the recent files (numbered; pick with the number key). See Files and Export.

Edit

Undo, Paste objects, Search/Replace, Spell check (native app only), Delete all, Global settings, Colours, Set units, Document settings (RustFig), Enter point, then Redo and Copy as picture. xfig has no selection, so there is no Cut, Copy or Select all: the modes act on the object you click, and the cut buffer is filled by Copy mode or Delete mode (right button).

• Undo and Redo have many levels.
• Paste objects attaches the cut buffer to the pointer as an outline, its top-left corner at the pointer. Left places the objects there (“place object”), middle at the position they were cut or copied from (“place at orig posn”), right or Escape cancels (“cancel paste”). One placement is one undo step. If the system clipboard holds a figure copied in another RustFig window, that is pasted instead of the cut buffer; if it holds an image (PNG, for example from a browser or a screenshot), it is pasted as a picture object, saved as clipboard-<number>.png next to the figure (in the temporary folder while the figure has no file name) and referenced by that path like any picture in a .fig file. The web version has only the cut buffer. Scripts and MCP give dx and dy to edit.paste to place the objects at once, moved by that offset.
• Search/Replace finds text objects by their text and can replace it.
• Copy as picture (RustFig's addition) puts a picture on the system clipboard, for pasting into other programs: after choosing it, click what to copy — left an object, middle a region (two corners or a loop), right the whole figure; Escape cancels. The mouse indicator shows the three buttons meanwhile.

View

Redraw, Portrait/Landscape, Zoom in, Zoom out, Zoom to fit canvas, Unzoom, Pan to origin, then the switches: Show page borders, Show depth manager, Show info balloons, Show grid, All depths on. See Zoom and view.

Snap

Hold and Release, then the object snaps for the next clicked point: Endpoint, Midpoint, Nearest, Focus, Normal, Tangent, Intersection, Diameter. See Snap and grid.

Object (RustFig)

Commands that xfig has only as modes or keys: Group and Ungroup, Update, Convert, Open/Close, Arrows, Transform (rotate, flip), Arrange (align, distribute, depth order), Measure and Edit Attributes. They act on the selection.

Help

• RustFig Manual: this manual (xfig's "Xfig Reference").
• RustFig Reference (commands): every command with its id and shortcut, filterable. The same ids work in the control channel and MCP.
• Install TeX Gyre fonts: downloads the TeX Gyre fonts from CTAN into RustFig's user data folder (native app; see the font chooser).
• About RustFig: version and licence; the xfig copyright holders.