jPicEdt is a very user-friendly open source software for creating and editing your drawings for LaTeX documents. Its main strength is, in my opinion, its capacity to generate drawings based on the very nice package PSTRICKS. This is gives a very powerful environment for creating sophisticated drawings.
From the web site (www.jpicedt.org):
jPicEdt can generate LaTeX, eepic and PsTricks code from a user-friendly graphical interface! This may include:
* Every graphical element allowed by the picture environment commands: lines, arrows, circles, boxes.
* Emulated elements, for example lines of any slope (which LaTeX doesn't support natively), circles of any size, ellipses, arcs and polygons. This makes a strong use of the \multiput command.
* Nearly every object allowed by the epic/eepic packages (excluding grids and textured filling): dashed lines, filled (whitened, blackened or shaded) ellipses or polygons, arcs,... Using this package is optional.
* As of version 1.3.2, nearly every object allowed by the pstricks.sty package (this include : filling with colours, hatches, textures, setting various stroke parameters...). Support for pstnode.sty and other related packages is underway.
jPicEdt can parse LaTeX files that include a \begin{picture}...\end{picture} (or \begin{pspicture}...\end{pspicture}) block, and is able to interpret a great deal of commands, either LaTeX-, PsTricks- or eepic-compliant (this allows in particular to load files generated by GnuPlot with a gset term eepic command).
jPicEdt is written in JAVA. As a result, it can run on any platform where a JVM (Java Virtual Machine) is installed (nearly every Unix flavors, plus Window 9x/2000/XP and MacOS, at least...)
If you configure jpicEdt for compiling the drawings with LaTeX and dvips, you can very easily convert them to PDF for also using them with PDFLaTeX.
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