best GUI library for vector drawing program

Jeremy Sanders jeremy+complangpython at jeremysanders.net
Fri Aug 17 12:08:29 EDT 2007


chewie54 wrote:

> What would be the best cross-platform GUI library to use for a vector
> based CAD program ( something like Visio on Windows )   WxWidgets,
> Tk,   PyQt,  Java Swing,  Java SWT,????   I need the capibility to
> draw and edit in a window that looks like a page of paper so WYSIWYG
> is very important,  and I need to save the drawings in vector based
> file formats like PS, EPS,  SVG, as well as image formats like jpg,
> png, and gif.  Also, the images need to be high resolution so that
> they can be pasted into various other programs in Windows OS,  and
> Linux OS,  and the Mac OS.

PyQt/Qt4 is capable of that (SVG export was added in Qt4.3).

I have a graph drawing application based around it (Veusz).

If you base everything around QPainter, you'll be able to write to any of
those output formats (including eps and pdf), and bitmaps. Antialiasing is
optional for bitmap formats.

Jeremy

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