[LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

Dave Phillips dlphillips at woh.rr.com
Tue Jul 29 14:11:15 UTC 2008


Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> Anyone knows a good vector drawing program for Linux ?
>
> Absolute requirements are:
>
> - Lines, arrows, boxes, circles, etc.
> - Linewidths and styles, colors, filling.
> - Text
> - PDF or PS export.
> - PNG and JPEG import (no bitmap editing required).
> - Accuracy.
>
> I've been using TGIF for years, but I'm more and
> more being blocked by its main flaw which is that
> it seems to use a unit of 0.2mm internally (in 
> metric mode) which is orders of magnitude too big.
>
> Tried QCAD and INKSCAPE, both fail basic 
> requirements (and have other problems).
>   
XCircuit ?

Alas, you'd have to convert images to PPM, but I think it meets most of 
your other requirements.

http://opencircuitdesign.com/xcircuit/

Best,

dp




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