xfig
- old, powerful and strange
inkscape
- modern drwaing application
- e.g.:
Save your image, eg as “image.svg”. In addition, in Inkscape go to the option File -> Save a Copy and chose PDF as your output format in the same folder as the SVG. In the PDF options popup that comes right after select the options: * PDF+LaTeX: Omit text in PDF and create LaTeX file * Export area is drawing Save and go to your LaTeX document. \begin{figure} \centering \def\svgwidth{\columnwidth} % sets the image width, this is optional \input{image.pdf_tex} \end{figure}