On Fri, Apr 13, 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote:
> Does anyone know of a vector based drawin program for linux ? I've been
> using flash at work but want to do similar things at home ...

What about xfig?  Quite widely used in the academic fields for drawing
vector figures.  Doesn't use either popular newer library (gtk or qt; in
fact I don't remember what it uses), but it's stable, robust, and
overall quite nice.

www.xfig.org


Hope this helps and Take care,

Daniel


> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Voigt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: vrijdag 13 april 2001 11:33
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: corel photopaint
> 
> 
> On Friday 13 April 2001 04:10, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> >     Hey people. We're playing with Corel Photopaint 9 for Linux on a
> Debian
> > 2.2 box, and we're not getting very far. It installed fine, it starts
> fine.
> > Unfortunately, as soon as you try to open a new document, it bails on an
> > unhandled exception.
> 
> It could be a stupid permissions problem, but that doesn't explain the 
> exception. Only Corel can help you with this. 
> Do you know Gimp? I can't think of a reason to use PhotoPaint when there's 
> Gimp. If you try Gimp, I recommend you get the latest version (1.2.1). The 
> version in Debian 2.2 is quite old and lacks some functionality.
> 
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Daniel A. Freedman
Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics
Department of Physics
Cornell University

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