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Xfig to Krita Brush Converter — Free, Online, No Signup

Convert Xfig files to Krita Brush online with no signup required.

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Xfig at a glance

Xfig

Xfig began in 1985 and accumulated decades of maintenance and export tooling, which made the .fig format a durable bridge between interactive diagram editing on Unix systems and downstream conversion to PostScript, PDF, and other outputs.

Krita Brush at a glance

Krita Brush

GIMP's brush formats grew out of the need to preserve painting resources as reusable assets rather than flattening every stroke into ordinary image files.

Format comparison

Feature
Xfig
Krita Brush
File type

Vector

Image

Extensions
  • .fig

  • .gbr

  • .gbrush

MIME type
  • application/x-xfig

  • image/x-gimp-gbr

Created year

1985

1996

Inventor

Supoj Sutanthavibul

GIMP Development Team

Status

legacy

active

Transparency

Not supported

Not supported

Animation

Not supported

Not supported

Primary use cases
  • illustration

  • diagramming

  • brand asset delivery

  • capture ingest

  • editing

  • web or print delivery

Layer support

Not supported

Supported

Vector scaling

Supported

Not supported

When to use each format

When to use Xfig

  • Your source file is already in Xfig.
  • Preserve source expectations before exporting to Krita Brush.
  • Xfig is commonly used in vector workflows.

When to use Krita Brush

  • Your target workflow expects Krita Brush.
  • Improve delivery compatibility with Krita Brush.
  • Krita Brush is commonly used in image workflows.

FAQs

Why convert Xfig to Krita Brush?

Convert to GBRUSH when the goal is to preserve or distribute a reusable bitmap brush for GIMP rather than export final artwork.

It is the right target for custom brush libraries, textured painting presets, and migration of legacy GIMP brush assets into a maintained toolkit.

What changes when converting Xfig to Krita Brush?

This conversion changes how the format behaves in downstream tools and delivery environments.

Moving to Krita Brush adds layer support. Moving to Krita Brush removes vector scaling.

What should I review after converting Xfig to Krita Brush?

Validate output quality on representative files and confirm the target format behaves correctly in the destination workflow.

Format resources

XfigKrita Brush

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