[CLUE-Tech] Scalable Vector Graphics on Linux?

[Michael J. Hammel]

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 19:24, mgushee at havenrock.com wrote:
> 
>   Sketch    http://sketch.sourceforge.net/
>     A Python-based, Corel Draw-esque drawing program. Worth having
>     for general use, but its SVG support is still fairly primitive.

Still waiting on the GTK+ interface.  The current interface is a bit
klunky, though the program works fine for simple things.  I used it to
layout the graphics for a trifold brochure we used at the CLIQ
conference a couple of years ago.  Lots of dependencies, though.

>   KIllustrator ?

Now known as Kontour.  Haven't played with it in quite some time since
I'm a GTK+ guy and it's a KDE thingy.

> Or maybe you could convert to Fig format using ... I don't know, 
> there must be some tool to do that, edit in XFig, then convert back 
> to SVG. Or if you're brave, you could just open the damn thing up in 
> Vim and edit it as text. After all, SVG is just an XML dialect.

I'm not aware of any conversion tools for vector formats (ie nothing
like the NetPBM tools except for ps2pdf) unless the editors themselves
can export to new formats.

-- 
Michael J. Hammel                               The Graphics Muse 
mjhammel at graphics-muse.org                      http://www.graphics-muse.com
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