OpenSource alternativer to Freehand/CorelDraw

pierre.meli · Post by **pierre.meli** » Mon 23. May 2005, 17:12

Does anybody know of an alternative to vector graphics based design tools such as Freehand or Corel Draw similar as we know and appreciate Gimp as an OpenSource alternative to Photoshop?

Thanks for any contribution

Cheers Pierre

pico · Post by **pico** » Mon 23. May 2005, 18:09

there is a Draw Application in OpenOffice - but I have never tested

jscholtysik · Post by **jscholtysik** » Mon 23. May 2005, 20:11

Hi pierre.meli,

try Sodipodi at

http://www.sodipodi.com

A short description is available at

http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?met ... tab=2222_1

Have fun.

Joachim

pierre.meli · Post by **pierre.meli** » Mon 23. May 2005, 23:16

Ciao jscholtysik & Horst

I downloaded Sodipodi_0_34_Win2000_XP_Setup.exe and found a several of error that are already known. I even went back to 0.33 - no success. The product looks quiet promising - I'll keep an eye on it. The leading developer answers to the question "Will there ever be version 1.0?":

"Quite improbable, unless somebody pays me for doing it. I am totally opposed to the recent trend of certain open source companies to name crappy beta products version 1 and marketing the hell out of them. In the current development model, Sodipodi will not be assigned version number 1, unless each source file is triple audited for clarity, speed and correctness, it implements the whole SVG (except DOM), and runs reasonably well on computers with 32MB of RAM."

Maybe Freehand, Illustrator and CorelDraw are all becoming OpenSource before that?

Thank you very much for the hint. If I can come further on with the product I'll post a message.

I used to work for Sun Microsystems - that's why a know OpenOffice.org, but to be honest I never used the editor - I'll try it

Cheers

Kosse · Post by **Kosse** » Tue 24. May 2005, 15:26

Hi pierre,

U can check this:
http://www.linux-nantes.fr.eu.org/DOC/l ... tml#bupubl
(btw, thx for the e-mail)