Linux vector drawing apps

[Leandro Dybal Bertoni]

Hi, folks!

I have made a quick and dirty adaptation of printps to generate the
centerline in Sketch format. You can find it at
ftp://ftp.dybal.eti.br/pub/dybal/survex/3dtosk-1.patch.bz2

It should be applied to a survex-0.93 source tree and configure run
again (to create de dummy dependencies file for 3dtosk)

Background:

For some years we have been drawing our cave maps with CorelDraw. I used
to import the centerline through hpgl files (generated by printhpgl) and
use it as reference to copy the sketches.

Then I switched to linux and had to keep a windows partition around for
map drawing. I needed a linux vector drawing app that:
a) supported bezier curves
b) could read/write some windows-app-based vector drawing format (so I
could swap files with my friends)
c) supported layers in the drawings
d) could import and manipulate (rotate/scale) raster images (to import
the sketch's scans)

Sketch is a vector drawing app that can read and write Adobe Illustrator
files (and Corel cmx files or Windos Metafile wmf, but not so well).
It's home page is http://sketch.sourceforge.net

It's a work in progess, but is already good enough for my needs.

There are two other vector drawing apps being worked on (as far as I
know): 

sodipodi, which writes SVG files, and these are flat files, no layers!

killustrator, which for now can't read/write any format from the windows
world

Cheers,

Leandro