I have just migrated to Ubuntu a few months ago, and find myself wanting Illustrator again. What is the best alternative for vector based drawing? Can Gimp do vector as well, or is it mainly pixel based like Photoshop?
Ubuntu – Illustrator alternative
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Warning: broken. Shutter is severely broken in Ubuntu 18.04 and not available in later versions.
Shutter (which you can install from the Ubuntu Software Centre or sudo apt-get install shutter) is a tool which has a variety of options for taking and annotating screenshots. (Note: You can annotate any images of your choice, not just screenshots.)
Once your unsupported printer is recognized either from USB or if setup as network printer from the appropriate network setting you are asked for a driver. If your printer is not listed you can alway select "Generic" to give you a choice of standard printing methods depicted below:
In this example on the left hand side a "PCL6/PCL XL Printer" is selceted and gives you again a variety of selections of PCL6 subsets on the right hand side. Depending on your model your Konica/Minolta printer may be a PCL6 printer and this entry may work, but you will have to simply try out what subsets are appropriate. If it's not PCL6 you may also try out if a generic GDI driver works.
Fancy special things your printer may be capable of will not work with a generic driver but at least you can print out something.
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You can try Inkscape
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It is built for vector graphics. If you need an animation tool, you can use Synfig-studio
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GIMP can do vector graphics, but it is designed for (and should be used for) raster.