Bryce Harrington wrote:
I'm definitely biased, but I've never really liked working in OpenDraw. It's got all the features, sure, but getting a nice looking drawing is a real chore compared with Inkscape.
I can echo this, I just can't stand the way the Bezier tool work in OOo Draw and the lack of antialiasing for drawings. But they will have a transition to a Cairo based canvas, so expect nice looking antialiased graphics: http://rodo.foo.cz/blog/?p=12 http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2005/presentations/thursday_b1.pdf
I think the biggest advantage Inkscape has over OpenDraw is that we're much more active - drawing is the *only* thing we focus on, whereas with the OpenOffice developers, drawing is more of a secondary feature. But I've never actually talked with an OO Draw developer so who knows...
Again, you are correct: OOo Draw is not really a separate application, it is in fact a special case of the presentation application, Impress, used in a single page mode.