Vector drawing software suggestions?

[mech7]

Illustrator is the best

[tr333]

I've installed it. The first thing I needed to do was to open an Illustrator file (.ai), but I got the following error:

Couldn't load Perl module Image::Magick. Images will be skipped.
Can't locate Image/Magick.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at (eval 1) line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 1) line 1.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

David

try installing the following modules:

libgraphics-magick-perl
perlmagick

hopefully this will install the required perl modules for you.

[mal]

You could also try dia (sudo apt-get install dia).

It's a gnome vector drawing tool that has layers.

Mal

[mirceade]

Have you tried Xara Extreme? I think it's fabulous.

[Hairy_Palms]

xara LX looks really good, but ill be honest vector graphics programs scare me i like my good ol bitmapped pictures, i just make them big

EDIT just reading Xara extremem website, didnt realise it can be used to create animated flash movies!!

[roomvista]

hi guys

i am gonna have to go with Inkscape ..the best software I have used till now.. really cool results.. yuo only have to spend more time but result is outstanding...

nattie

[kayosiii]

Yeah the layers palette is the last item in the layers menu... (in version 0.41 anyways)...
Hope that helps

[BRAXS69]

i suggest inkscape or xara linux extreme both have layer support and both are excellent vector apps.

i kind of taken a liking to inkscape after i to figured out how to show the layer panel...(layer> layers... Shift+Ctrl+L) lol
and because it dose support a lot more then xara, however xara is very fast and seems to have a few tools that i like a little more then inkscape...

to install inkscape
sudo apt-get install inkscape

to install xara extreme 
sudo apt-get install xaralx xaralx-svg imagemagick

a few previews for that matter.....

[detonish]

try installing the following modules:

libgraphics-magick-perl
perlmagick

hopefully this will install the required perl modules for you.

Hey mate,

I did what you suggested but got a different error message.

Use of uninitialized value in subtraction (-) at /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/ill2svg.pl line 318, <> chunk 128.
Argument "^W^X" isn't numeric in printf at /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/ill2svg.pl line 323, <> chunk 128.
Use of uninitialized value in printf at /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/ill2svg.pl line 324, <> chunk 128.
Use of uninitialized value in printf at /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/ill2svg.pl line 325, <> chunk 128.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/ill2svg.pl line 329, <> chunk 128.


Any idea?

Thanks

[bakermiller]

you get that error when you import .ai to inkscape?
i've never been able to do it.

what i do is I export .svg from illustrator and import .svg to inkscape.

You lose all layers swatches, brushes, colors are off, but you keep your paths

...unless you can tell me how to use this...

http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen/public/software/ai2svg.py

... maybe someone who knows python can help out with this...