Sono sempre alla ricerca di software opensource dedicato alla grafica.

Spulciando con google ho trovato un nuovo (per me) programma di grafica vettoriale: Xara Xterme

Notevoli le features:

* Opens and renders all the XAR files we’ve tried. Rendering 100% complete. If you find a file that doesn’t load and render correctly let us know please.
* Text now renders (note that text will only render exactly as intended by the designer if you have the required fonts installed on your system).
* Text tool includes new support for tabs and rulers
* Xtreme menus
* Selection tool
* Object delete cut/copy/paste/duplicate/clone using menus or Ctrl-X,C,V,D,K
* Drag objects around, plus scale, rotate, shear. Plus numeric control via Infobar
* Right click drop-copy while dragging
* Magnetic object snap. Grid snap and grid display.
* Zoom tool
* Push tool (middle mouse button also works to push the page around while in any tool)
* Group and ungroup (Ctrl-G, Ctrl-U)
* Undo/redo using toolbar, icons or Ctrl-Z / Y
* Shape editor for editing and creating shapes
* Pen bezier path tool
* Rectangle, Ellipse and QuickShape tools
* Arrange toolbar and menus – change the z-order of objects, slice/join/add/subtract shapes
* Interactive Feather tool with new popup slider added to wxWidgets
* Fill tool
* Transparency tool
* Blend tool
* Bevel tool
* Text tool, including ability to set the font
* Freehand tool (No brushes yet)
* Shadow tool
* Color line and full color editor
* Save
* JPG, GIF and PNG import and export
* Import/export of many ImageMagick supported types inclduing TIFF, BMP, PICT, XPM and others.
* Bitmap export dialog includes image previews
* Early version of SVG import (work in progress)
* Working Adobe Illustrator import (to same level as Windows Xtreme version)
* Drag and drop file import
* Layer, color, line and bitmap galleries
* Guidelines
* Rulers
* A choice of document templates
* Status line and progress bar
* Many new menu items e.g. convert lines to shapes
* Clipviews
* Tracer tool
* New plug-in system for import/export filters (documentation and example filter code for this will appear on our web site soon)
* Options dialog (and most options now operational)
* Printing.
* Profile editing in feather, fill, transparency and blend tools
* Full comprehensive Help now integrated.

A detta dei programmatori, è un programma velocissimo se confrontato con la concorrenza

E’ presente anche nei repository di Ubuntu, da testare a fondo.