I had some situation when my designer sent me a pretty nice logo in a .cdr (Corel Draw) format which I wanted to use in my web site. Searching over the internet showed there is a vector graphics editor which can handle this format, sK1.
I was unlucky to make it work under Fedora 11 and I could not locate how to handle the error I was getting. Neither installing with yum, nor compiling worked out. I was constantly getting the same error (lack of education in python is a heavy burden that does not allow me to sleep):
$ sk1 python: Objects/stringobject.c:115: PyString_FromString: Assertion `str != ((void *)0)' failed. /usr/bin/sk1: line 23: 4906 Aborted python -c "import sk1" "$1"
As soon as my goal was not to edit these files under Linux but only to read and use as graphics artwork, I thought that simply converting them in command line should be pretty much enough. So, I installed a converter I found at sK1 project web site.
$ yum search uniconv Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit ================== Matched: uniconv UniConvertor.x86_64 : Universal vector graphics translator uniconvertor.x86_64 : Universal vector graphics translator
Fedora 11 repos contain Uniconverter, but, remembering the sad experience I described above, I grabbed the source code from the sK1 web site and built my own rpm.
mkdir -p ~/software/ && cd ~/software/ wget http://sk1project.org/modules.php?name=Products&product=uniconvertor&op=download tar xvfz uniconvertor-1.1.4.tar.gz cd UniConvertor-1.1.4/ python setup.py bdist_rpm sudo yum -y localinstall --nogpgcheck dist/UniConvertor-1.1.4-1.x86_64.rpm uniconv
Quite nice, the help section says:
Allowed input formats: AI - Adobe Illustrator files (postscript based) CDR - CorelDRAW Graphics files (7-X3,X4 versions) CDT - CorelDRAW templates files (7-X3,X4 versions) CCX - Corel Compressed Exchange files CMX - Corel Presentation Exchange files (CMX1 format) SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics files FIG - XFig files CGM - Computer Graphics Metafile files AFF - Draw files WMF - Windows Metafile files SK - Sketch/Skencil files SK1 - sK1 vector graphics files PLT - HPGL for cutting plotter files Allowed output formats: AI - Adobe Illustrator files (postscript based) SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics files CGM - Computer Graphics Metafile files WMF - Windows Metafile files SK - Sketch/Skencil files SK1 - sK1 vector graphics files PDF - Portable Document Format PS - PostScript PLT - HPGL for cutting plotter files Example: uniconv drawing.cdr drawing.svg
Converting between formats works out great.