Inkscape Vector Illustrator - Open Source vector graphics editor

Inkscape Vector Illustrator is a free and open source drawing program similar to Illustrator and CorelDraw. It uses W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

"The name is made up of the two English words 'ink' and 'scape'. Ink is a common substance for drawings, and is used when the sketched work is ready to be permanently committed to paper, and thus evokes the idea that Inkscape is ready for production work. A scape is a view of a large number of objects, such as a landscape or ocean-scape, and thus alludes to the object-oriented nature of vector imagery. "

The latest stable version is 0.46.

To install Inkscape in Ubuntu type the following in terminal,

sudo apt-get install inkscape

Some screen shots of Inkscape Editor.