Inkscape - Open Source Vector Graphics Editor

And for those who really don't care or are not 1337 enough to care if it's a commercial program or if software is using X11 there is also the great looking Xara LX which is shaping up nicely. Open source software needs this kind of competition
http://www.xaraxtreme.org/

For those of you that dare pay (OMG) a shareware, there is Intaglio, one of the easiest, nicest and most efficient GUI for vectorial drawing I know.

The way tangents or right angles appear when you wish to stick one line with another objet is so perfect that to me it is the essence of macintosh...
Intaglio is also Linkback-compatible with Keynotes which means by double-clicking your drawing right in Keynote you trigger Intaglio, reedit everything, close and find it updated back inside Keynote...
And it opens *everything* vectorial, from PDF files to old macdraw documents...

X11 is old, ugly, slow

command o, command s, command c, command v, etc. don't work

On my iBook G4 12" 1,33 GHZ, 1GB RAM, i click the icon of Inskape and.. I wait. I wait. I wait again. I wait again and again. Hey, are you sure you have really clicked the icon? Yes, and I wait....


http://jeby.blogspot.com

I've tinkered w/ Inkscape and kind of like it. And thanks for the heads-up on Cenon, I'll check it out.

I'm not thrilled w/ X11 either. Glad the option exists, but it's pretty poor imho opinion compared to most OS X interfaces.

Chris
http://amateureconblog.blogspot.com/

I've used Inkscape for a couple of months. It's great, despite X11. Go buy Illustrator if you don't like X11... or quite with the whinging! :)

What am I missing about X11 that so many people hate. For me, it is completely transparent. I click an icon on the dock and the program opens. It even works with iPhoto. I double click a photo and the file opens in GIMP. Whether it is running in X11 or not doesn't matter. I've only toyed with Inkscape, because I don't really do anything that requires it, but I use GIMP regularly and have never had an issue.

If you don't like the content here, go start your own Mac blog...

I'm with most here about not liking X on the Mac. I don't even like it in unix, although millions swear by it.

That aside, I've been using Inkscape for a while now on my mac and I really like it. It's a really great piece of software that can really do a lot, and for free.

While it is too bad there isn't a native version yet, it is still at least a great piece of software and people should check it out.

btw: it is not inkscape's fault it needs X, it is because the GTK library isn't OS X native yet. There is a work in progress however..

guess what, this isn't the stuff for dave barnes blog, just becauase you don't like it doesn't mean other people won't. You dont have to complain about every post that isn't tailored to what you are interested in.

i do already use inkscape as my default vector graphix program, and gimp of course.

i don't like commercial tools, where there are so much good open source programs available.