Hi Alastair, There are a number of open-source svg editors like inkscape that you can package into your distribution. Those products are truly "free".
For cheap editors, there is Sketsa for $US49/seat - that's almost free for enterprises. http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Multimedia_and_Graphics/Graphics_Editors/Sketsa_SVG_Graphics_Editor.html Maybe you can convince Kiyut to give you a bulk license deal. http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Authors/Kiyut.html As for almost everything else, there are some parameters you kind of need to specify in order to help us solution providers decide whether we want to provide nearly-free products to an enterprise client. As you know, even svg developers need to put food on the table. It might be helpful of you could expand on the following questions that I am sure every interested party would like to ask: 1) how many seats? By almost free, do you mean 10,000 licenses for $5/license or 50 licenses for $1000/license? Or do you really mean unlimited licenses for a few bucks and a pat on the back? if the latter, what kind of pat? Generally, unlimited-copy wite-label licenses are VERY EXPENSIVE. 2) what is the target OS? or are you thinking of a web app? if so, what serverside parameters? Enterprise Java grade with Oracle, or php/mysql? any taboo bits? What version of SVG viewer do you need to support? 3) what sort of final user are you thinking of, and are you *selling* this or giving it away? If you are giving it away, are you white-labeling it or giving away a product clearly marked as someone else's? 4) Are you representing an enterprise or a struggling start-up? Is the final user an enterprise, a government, or an institution? Will profit be derived by the use of this tool? 5) How does the provider of this "almost free" software recover their cost and put bread on the table? Advertising at the client side? click-through url on the product? 6) Are you asking for *unlimited* distribution rights? Is that within the intended product, and only for that particular distribution, or forever, for any product sold by your employer? 7) Who gets to do client-requested upgrades? Are those done at commercial rates? 8) Who pays for bug fixes? 9) Who is "we"? 10) When are you looking for this for? 11) What features are you looking for? "svg editor" is a very big field. are you looking for a drawing editor for simple primitives to handle static sprites or for a full-featured editor solution that can handle namespaces, SMIL, scripting, etc? Cheers, Ronan On Monday 18 September 2006 18:58, Alastair Fettes wrote: > Does anyone have a list of easy to use wysiwyg SVG editors? We're > looking for a free (or *very* cheap to distribute) application that we > can package with our software distribution. If not free, then > something we can just pay a set fee to package rather than a per-seat > license. > > Cheers, > Alastair Fettes > > > > > > > ----- > To unsubscribe send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- > visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my > membership" ---- > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > -- Ronan Oger Director RO IT Systems GmbH ...Building Web2.0 with SVG since 2001 http://www.roitsystems.com ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
