29 Vector Drawing Programs

Ed Pegg writes "I did a survey of all available vector-based drawing programs, in anticipation of SVG in the next Firefox. I found 29 different vector drawing programs. Of these, 14 were free or open source. More than I expected. Did I miss any good ones?"

Comments

You missed one

[lakeland]

cat > file.ps
10 10 moveto
50 50 lineto
stroke
showpage

Perhaps cat is not the easiest to use, but it easily the most powerful and easier to control from another program! It can also be trivially scripted to produce eps and pdf, or later updated with $EDITOR.

A *good* PS / EPS tutorial somewhere?

[green pizza]

I've googled for PS / EPS tutorials a few times and I either find really basic documentation or overly detailed low level documentation. I would like to know how to lay out a basic "newsletter" style document in PS.

I basiclly want to learn how to create a letter (or A4) sized self contained PS document that contains the following:
* Embedded EPS logo in the upper right hand corner
* Large typeface header text to the left of the logo
* A line across the page
* Date / Issue / etc information on one line of text across the page
* Another line across the page
* A bunch of text presented in three columns
* An embedded raster image somewhere in the text

Yeah, I know I'm far better off to use a real DTP program, or at least do this in TeX / LaTeX. But I think it's simple enough to where it shouldn't be too impossible to do with straight PS and some sort of way to embed the EPS and raster images.

Anyone have any pointers?

SVG Icons

[ochinko]

I've always wondered why rendering of scalable icons isn't relegated to the font server. Seems to me that all the needed code is already there.

www.smartdraw.com

[Anonymous Coward]

Smart Draw is simply wonderful, good UI, really complete and the price is right.

Ok, it is more about diagrams and maps than about painting, but it's a time saver

Try a demo and see for yourself.