Urgh, yes, once GIMP gets involved you're almost certainly in the space where it's actually less effort to write the program even if you only needed to run it once!
On this general subject, actually, shortly after I published The Descent to C, I had an email from someone asking about how I'd drawn the diagrams. I replied with several paragraphs of waffling about PostScript, ImageMagick and Perl scripts, and was quite apologetic about that since I expected he'd probably turn out to have been looking for a recommendation of a GUI drawing package. Fortunately, he was a programmer type himself, and it turned out he'd been rather hoping that I hadn't drawn them all by hand in Inkscape or similar, so that he'd get useful scripting tips rather than a GUI recommendation. Phew :-)
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Date: 2014-07-24 01:27 pm (UTC)On this general subject, actually, shortly after I published The Descent to C, I had an email from someone asking about how I'd drawn the diagrams. I replied with several paragraphs of waffling about PostScript, ImageMagick and Perl scripts, and was quite apologetic about that since I expected he'd probably turn out to have been looking for a recommendation of a GUI drawing package. Fortunately, he was a programmer type himself, and it turned out he'd been rather hoping that I hadn't drawn them all by hand in Inkscape or similar, so that he'd get useful scripting tips rather than a GUI recommendation. Phew :-)