[CLUE-Tech] Scalable Vector Graphics on Linux?

[Joe Linux]

Are you sure these screens are Vector, and not just plain  ".jpg" type 
of files?

Jed S. Baer wrote:

>Hi Folks.
>
>I'm still plugging away on RH cleanup here. It's been way to long since I
>did one of these exercises -- I have *.rpmnew and *.rpmorig files all over
>the place. I'm tempted to write a Perl script to run through all of them,
>and if a diff between {pkg}.rpm[new|orig] shows no differences, just
>delete them. But then I'd miss out on the fun of discovering interesting
>things like what the xinetd chargen function does. ;-)
>
>However, on one of the tangents this little task has taken me on, I've
>discovered that RH (or somebody) has used Adobe Illustrator to make SVG
>files for some of the screens (such as the gdm login screen background).
>Ignoring the question of why these open-source types aren't using
>open-source tools for this, my question is which open-source proggy would
>be good for manipulating them.
>
>I've found:
>  http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/
>  http://autotrace.sourceforge.net/
>  http://autotrace.sourceforge.net/frontline/
>
>DMOZ (open directory) lists this:
>  http://qfsm.sourceforge.net/about.html
>but I don't think it's a graphics program, however it sounds kinda nifty
>for something.
>
>Does anyone have any experience using SVG (particularly creating) under
>Linux? Any tips?
>
>TIA
>jed
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