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I have to do many math exercises for young children. A drawing helps them a lot. But I can not paste images because it consumes a lot of memory of the program that I use so I have to put the pictures in code. Do you know any program that can help me draw?

Marina
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    Maybe this is what you're looking for – Andreas Schneider Feb 04 '18 at 18:26
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    Also related: http://www.texample.net/tikz/resources/ (section Tools for working with TikZ code and Tools that generate PGF/TikZ code) – Dr. Manuel Kuehner Feb 04 '18 at 18:27
  • @Zarko I think she really does not want to load any tikz library, see here. –  Feb 04 '18 at 18:32
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    Sometimes I'm wondering if there is an application with button GetTikZCodeFromTeX.SE, which just posts the picture here and asks "how can I draw this with TikZ?" ;-) –  Feb 04 '18 at 18:37
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    If you use something like Inkscape, at least, it will just give you TikZ code. It won't be pretty, but it won't rely on a lot of extra stuff. (Obviously, things like xcolor, because it requires that, but if you can use TikZ, you already are loading xcolor, graphicx etc.) In addition, you can download clip art from openclipart.org in SVG format, load it into Inkscape and export TikZ code. Just do your editing in Inkscape as the code is generally unreadable. – cfr Feb 04 '18 at 19:10
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    You can also find some stuff on the TikZ example site and, of course, here. Much won't be suitable, but quite a lot of cute animals are available: fish, donkeys, pigs, turtles/tortoises, cats, turkeys and, of course, ducks. There are also trams/buses, cars, people, witches, pumkins, presents, trees etc. – cfr Feb 04 '18 at 19:13
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    My comment was not specific to you. You show some effort and people (and ducks and marmot) in this forum are eager to help anyway. Your first link, unfortunately, does work since it is private. In any case, I really think you may want to talk to your system administrator to also allow for TikZ libraries. (And if that does not work, you can always compile on a private computer, on which you install TeXLive or a another bundle.) –  Feb 04 '18 at 19:30
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    You can also consider using symbols from fonts. There are quite a lot of picture-like glyphs available, even if you cannot use Xe/LuaTeX. texdoc comprehensive shows most of them. Fonts for typesetting ancient languages are especially helpful as they have pictorial characters. – cfr Feb 04 '18 at 20:14

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