Quick drawing tool

software-recommendation design vector-drawings

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Solution 1

Here's a list of Linux graphic vector editors in wikipedia. From looking at the articles linked from there, it looks like Inkscape, Karbon14, OpenOffice.org Draw and possibly Dia are currently actively developed.

Other previously popular programs, like Sodipodi, SK1, Pencil and Xara Xtreme are no longer actively maintained.

Solution 2

Try Xara Xtreme. It's listed in Synaptic as xaralx package

Solution 3

if you want a quick tool use

1) Pinta: just a clone of MS paint.

2) LibreOffice Draw: very convenient.

3) gnome-paint drawing editor: Very very lightweight and useful.

4) kolor paint: another clone of MS paint.

5) gnu paint: fast and easy.

You can install them just from software center.

Solution 4

Also shutter - which is a screenshot taking program - has a very simple and nice vector drawing tool.

Solution 5

I think the best drawing tool on linux today is Krita. It combines vector and raster layers (and more) on the same canvas.

LWN did a brief review recently.

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tutuca

I am self-taught programmer and designer. I began doing internet-based developments in 1998 with the emergence of Flash and similar technologies. Today I am fully focused on programming web based applications with a broad set of skills, but is on the client side (front-end) where I work more effectively, I can perform tasks side programming server, database administration and systems. As a craftsman, I like to keep things simple and elegant, using different tools with a pragmatic approach. My experience in development teams also found to lead me, so I'm familiar with project management strategies and decision making. I like to make the workspace environment friendly, relaxed, where the communication is seamless, transparent and honest

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

tutuca over 1 year

I'm in need of some vector drawings... Was rushed to install inkscape, as is the tool I use more often, but it is too bloated and heavy for the task at hand...

I was thinking in something like Fireworks, that let's you create bitmaps in a very vector-like workflow, or something like the old Flash editor that would blend shapes if they had the same color.

Do you know of any app simpler than inkscape or along the lines of those products description?
- iamgopal over 12 years
  
  nothing beats inkscape. try it once. its easy.
- tutuca over 12 years
  
  I do use inkscape regularly. I mean something simplier and faster to work with.
cweiske over 12 years

I like to use shutter for quickly adding notes and annotations to screenshots.
tutuca over 12 years

[Pencil](www.pencil-animation.org) is in the repos and not in that list. Although it has too much rough edges, I don't know if some of them are because of gtk3.
tutuca over 12 years

Very interesting. The Shutter DrawingTool looks like just what I need except that it can't blend shapes and doesn't appear to work stand alone...
Adobe over 12 years

Yeah - may be it'll be right to ask Shutter Developers for a separate release of DrawingTool alone (with appropriate enchansments).
Sergey over 12 years

@tutuca: Pencil is a nice program, thank you for mentioning it. However, its last release was in 2008 so it goes in the list of "no longer actively maintained". Which doesn't mean it can't or shouldn't be used - one just need to realize that it may stop working/be removed from the repos in the next release of Ubuntu, for example...
Adobe over 12 years

I don't know about others - but kolourpaint is not a vector tool.
Mike678 over 12 years

Last release in 2005, but sounded nice.
Mike678 over 12 years

Yes, gnome-paint neither. Its about vector drawing tools! Don't understand that this answer made it to score 3.
Androvich over 12 years

SVG has not changed too much since 2005 :)
Nicolas de Fontenay over 12 years

Inkscape is my favorite. The linux environment is definitely not short of that.
new QOpenGLWidget over 3 years

I don't understand why you got 73 reputation from this answer
new QOpenGLWidget over 3 years

:( i love activately mantained guis