Vector art programs?

[captainpotato]

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 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.

[zorg]

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/
sketch http://sketch.sourceforge.net/
gyve 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

if you have any problem to import the ai file, tell me I can convert it to eps easily

[captainpotato]

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).