[JohnR]

With my old MacroMedia FreeHand about to become well and truly obsoleted, I needed to find a new (vector) drawing tool. I tried some from the App store (rather, I tried the free version or looked around for a downloadable trial) and very few could do arrowheads. Such a basic thing, you would think.... anyway Inkscape does, and it's free.

http://inkscape.org/

[skunark]

Inkscape, Scibus and Gimp FTW.  But scripts and plugins seem to only work for Linux.

[JohnR]

FTW?

Perhaps it's time to have another look at GIMP, it didn't used to do 16-bit (that was a while ago...) and I ended up writing scripts using dcraw and ImageMagick to do most of what I need.

Not sure I have a use for Scribus, although I'd love to have something that could be scripted to take data (in whatever format, say XML) and generated formatted output.

Thanks