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Title: Vector art programs?
Post by: captainpotato on June 14, 2004, 09:27:23 am
Hi all,

As this relates more to artwork per se than to software, I thought this forum was a more appropriate location to post.

Is there a vector art program that can import (and preferable export, but not completely necessary) Illustrator files for Linux (or Windows if necessary)? I have no intention of spending US$500 for the real thing, nor do I fancy a 147mb download for the trial version over dialup.

Essentially all I want to do is do my custom Pac-Man CP (http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=20287) in a vector format that I can give back to the community. Using PhotoShop I can print it at 300dpi, but not only would the file be much larger, it wouldn't be a vector image to upload for others.
Title: Re:Vector art programs?
Post by: zorg on June 14, 2004, 10:52:11 am

Is there a vector art program that can import (and preferable export, but not completely necessary) Illustrator files for Linux (or Windows if necessary)?

sodipodi http://www.sodipodi.com/ (http://www.sodipodi.com/)
sketch http://sketch.sourceforge.net/ (http://sketch.sourceforge.net/)
gyve http://www.gyve.org/ (http://www.gyve.org/)

the koffice team also has a vector drawing tool , but is name changes every day  killustrator, kontour, kcarbon14
check koffice site http://www.koffice.org (http://www.koffice.org)

if you have any problem to import the ai file, tell me I can convert it to eps easily
Title: Re:Vector art programs?
Post by: captainpotato on June 14, 2004, 11:18:40 am
Hi Zorg,

Thanks for the offer. I'm downloading Skencil (Sketch as it seems to be known now), so I'll see how I go with that, and if I need help, I'll take you up on your offer.

The others don't seem to do .ai files, although maybe I missed it as a feature (Karbon definitely doesn't do the ones I have, as I've already got it installed and tried it).