Which Illustrator's alternative opensourced exists? My usage is mostly SVG conversion and layout/page setup, for screenprinting typons.
#art #help #opensource
@Famine
For converting to SVG inkscape is rather nice, especially for black and white illustrations, I had good results with it. You have to play a bit with the settings but not that much.
Not sure what you mean by page layout but if you mean playing with text placement and flow I think it has tools for that (I never used them so not 100% sure)
@emptyfortress All my SVG need to be in black & white, so it's perfect.
Yeah I'm not sure how to translate it... Basically, I print four A4 transparent layers that I tape together to get a A3+ design. What was very easy with Illustrator is that I just open 4 workspace, align them to form a bigger sheet, open my SVG file on it and adjust the placement.
Btw, I'm strongly interest in text placement and modification, since few of my design need it :)
@Famine
Ah ok. not sure you'll be able to do exactly the same thing with inkscape (when I did something similar I just exported the SVG from inkscape to a PNG file and cut it with gimp or a custom program. There may be other ways now, this was 10 years ago, lol)
Inkscape has extensions available so there may be one to auto cut an A3 SVG file to 4 A4 sheets, it's worth having a look
@emptyfortress
Hey ! Just for you to know that I've found a nice software to split a design into separate page (http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/)
@Famine
Oh, this looks very useful, thank you for telling me!
Server run by the main developers of the project 
It is not focused on any particular niche interest - everyone is welcome as long as you follow our code of conduct!
@emptyfortress Thanks you a lot for all of this info :)