Creating figures in LaTeX

Question

Sorry if this doubles some other question, but I failed to find the right answer.

I am using LaTeX for writing math papers. However my knowledge of LaTeX and other computer programs is rather limited. In particular I have no experience at all in drawing figures. Now I am trying to figure out where to start learning this.

I have heard that there are programs allowing to create a figure and then encapsulate it into a LaTeX file. What are the user friendly programs of that kind? The type of figures I would like to create include knots, polytopes, convex bodies which I can easily draw by hand, but have no idea how to do it on a computer.

Given my modest background in computers, I would prefer something which is not very sophisticated and which could be learned and used relatively quickly. (I work with Windows, if it is important.)

Check that question. It may have an answer for your question. — m0nhawk, Jun 28 '15 at 10:08
What exactly do you mean? Do you want to have a list of WYSIWYG graphic programs that let you output (e.g., TikZ) latex code? — phx, Jun 28 '15 at 10:08
Also, here is the good question too: What You See is What You Get (WYSIWYG) for PGF/TikZ?. — m0nhawk, Jun 28 '15 at 10:09
@Closers This question of a first user is just a few minutes old. It might need a little clarification. But a list of TikZ editors is a partial answer at best and not a duplicate. — Heiko Oberdiek, Jun 28 '15 at 10:16
Maybe inkscape could be a program for you? It allows you to easily draw all kinds of stuff and an inkscape to TikZ exporter (see here: https://code.google.com/p/inkscape2tikz/) does exist (however, I never tried it). — phx, Jun 28 '15 at 10:22
I don't agree that this is a duplicate. The question asks for programs to generate figures (plots). Apart from the title, it isn't even specified that it should be done with LaTeX, only included. MKO, please elaborate a bit on the question at hand. — Johannes_B, Jun 28 '15 at 12:24
In addition to the above mentioned TiKZ editors and inkscape, there's also flowframtk which can export to pgf code. This can be input into a LaTeX document using \input (with \usepackage{pgf}). — Nicola Talbot, Jun 28 '15 at 14:59
There is an early question which has been update as early as a year ago with very helpful information http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/205/what-graphics-packages-are-there-for-creating-graphics-in-latex-documents — R. Schumacher, Jul 11 '15 at 03:25
You might event want to have a look to Why draw diagrams using LaTeX when there are open source tools like OpenOffice? — Claudio Fiandrino, Jul 11 '15 at 08:27

Creating figures in LaTeX

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