Cleaned up code to work on HP-UX system. Gfig is now released in the standard Gimp distribution. However, the plugin Makefile does not build gfig by default. You need to add gfig to the list of plugins to be built. This will hopefully be fixed soon.
Painting can take full advantage of many of the GIMPs features when painting the objects.
I have tried not to duplicated functionality that is already present in the GIMP e.g. guides. This tool enables you to draw many regular shaped objects. Object collection area where collections of objects can be previewed and then edited or merged with the current drawing area. Download the tar and gzip'ed source here. A directory called gfig-examples is included that has a few simple demo object collections.