Just spent an hour installing Photoshop CS3 :-<

[bogeyman]

Can`t stand bitmap editors, you can never select the object you want to edit,move, etc. Inkscape works for me.

That'll be because a bunch of pixels is not an object.

PS offers plenty of tool options to select regions of pixels however.

Also, PS is not just a bitmap editor. It has vector objects and 'smart' objects so best of both worlds. I can drag a complex vector drawing from Illustrator into a PS window/layer and the vector drawing stays intact (in CS3).

Likewise I can drag and drop a bitmap image into Illustrator and it will trace it into a vector object. What more could you want?

[OwlHoot]

.. Likewise I can drag and drop a bitmap image into Illustrator and it will trace it into a vector object. What more could you want?

VectorEye (free) is also good at that.

[bogeyman]

VectorEye (free) is also good at that.

Looks interesting that.

Thanks OH.

[OwlHoot]

.. Inkscape works for me.

Yes, I've used Inkscape a lot. I'd be happier if you could control the SVG XML format a bit more, although clearly there are limits to that.

I'd also be much happier if one could work with native SVG coordinates (Y downward) and use "raw" SVG mode without it adding a load of crud to the SVG file.

P.S. I just checked, and VectorEye isn't free any more. But for what it does, $119 is pretty good value.