Question : Free or cheap alternative for Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw

Hi,

I need budget solution (freeware or shareware) for designing advertisement material (both for web and for printed material) for commercial use. As I will use it at maximum once in a month (and I don't need very advanced features either) I don’t want to go for Adobe Illustrator. Thus what I am looking for is something like Gimp is for Photoshop.

Program should work with icc profiles and cmky colour model and I should be able to place pictures edited in gimp into my design.

Answer : Free or cheap alternative for Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw

Have a look to the Draw application of OpenOffice (www.openoffice.org) it has standard vectorial design capabilities like any kind of shape design, any kind of fill color,degrade or pattern, 3D effects and shadows, etc. Just like Illustrator or CorelDraw. And it is totally free.