On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Alan Horkan wrote:
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 14:34:32 -0800 (PST) From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...1...> To: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] New Inkscape man page
options: -?, --help-h, --export-height=HEIGHTseems a bit odd not to have also reserved -h for help but I'd geuss it wont cause more than a second or two bother for anyone comfortable enough to be using the command line.
I agree; I typically always reserve -h for help.
It looks like the commandline options could use some redesign. Would be a good project for someone new to the codebase since it's all in main.c.
For example, instead of -h / -w options it might be preferable to adopt the X convention for geometries (see man X). As well, there are some standard X and GNOME commandline ops that don't appear to be supported in Inkscape, that probably should.
There's probably some environment variables that Inkscape ought to honor as well. These also are handled in main.c.
DESCRIPTION Inkscape is a GUI editor for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format drawing files, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc. Supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text,
I always try to put Adobe Illustrator because I strongly object to the idea that they ever deserved to be awarded the Trademark on the word "Illustrator".
Got it.
EXAMPLES While obviously Inkscape is primarily intended as a GUI application, it can be used for doing SVG processing on the commandline as well. (Note though that other SVG tools and libraries such as librsvg may be better suited for production SVG processing.)
OTHER INFO The canonical place to find Inkscape info is at http://www.inkscape.org/. The website includes links to other relevant documentation, tutorials, user manual, examples, mailing list archives, the latest released version of the program, and more.
SEE ALSO gimp(1)
If I were using the command apropos it gives answers based on the information in the SEE ALSO section.
I can understand that users might want to also use the GIMP because is it is also a powerful graphics program my first thought would be that SEE ALSO should list vector applictions, namely: rsvg, xfig.
rsvg is mentioned in the examples section, so it definately needs to be included. xfig is good old reliable X application with SVG support but i find it ugly and hard to use.
maybe also include: sodipodi, although I guess we expect to replace Sodipodi; karbon14, play friendly with KDE but it seems to be developing only slowly; dia, is a vector graphics application with limited SVG support but I happen to like it a lot (okay I admit I'm overreaching here).
Ah, great, I'll include them.
=head1 SEE ALSO
gimp(1), autotrace, frontline, ill2svg, rsvg, xfig(1), sodipodi, karbon14, dia(1X).
Thanks, Bryce