[ubuntu-art] PROGRAM: XaraLX

[Troy James Sobotka]

Thanks to Ken for pointing this app out to me!

If you haven't already found this program, you should
probably do yourself a favour and check it out.  It has
recently migrated to open source, so it deserves some 
attention.

http://www.xaraxtreme.org/


If you download the precompiled binaries, you should be good
to go out of the gate with Dapper on i386 distros.

It is a very good vector drawing tool.  Unfortunately, as of
now, it doesn't support native SVG exporting / importing, but
it is headed that way.  I believe you should still be able
to accomplish this by exporting to a format that Inkscape
can read, then import via Inkscape.  Roundabout, but it will
work until native SVG is supported when 1.0 is officially
released.  They are making _rapid_ development on it, and it
is a very good program.

Now for the sad news.  Even though this application is open
source, getting it to compile on your lovely amd64 machine
won't happen because of a wxWidgets issue.  To this end,
I have (quickly) typed up a howto if you still want to work
with this program:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/XaraLXHowTo_amd64
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