On Thursday, March 17, 2011, 2:15:04 PM, Alexandre wrote:
AP> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Chris Lilley wrote:
The comment that you love it would be good to post there too :) especially especially if your email includes the word "because".
AP> May I try? :)
Nice motivating quote (and follow-on comment), Alexandre. Please do post that to www-svg@...157...
AP> http://www.osnews.com/story/7102/Interview_with_Everaldo_and_Jimmac/page1/
AP> "Everaldo: OK, in the beginning I used Corel Draw 9, running in Linux AP> and gimp, but as Corel stopped developing corel for Linux and version AP> 9 did not have a good support for SVG, I moved to adobe illustrator, AP> which up to this moment proved to be the best software to draw AP> vetorial graphics in SVG and photoshop replaced gimp. Unfortunately AP> the SVG generated by illustrator is not a 100% compatible with KDE. AP> The problem is the transparency modes "multiply" and "hard light" are AP> not understood by KDE, they are very useful and needed for the AP> creation of light and shadow in my icons."
AP> That was in 2004. Seven years later we are finally close to having AP> this bloody nuisance fixed.