On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Joshua Facemyer <jfacemyer@...400...> wrote:
I wish to strongly disagree about combining the fill and stroke dialogs. I recently started to use a "professional" proprietary software suite for a new job (no choice for me) and have had to learn the interface, some elements which this mockup is trying to imitate.
You can Adobe-bash all you want to but the Fill-Stroke in Illustrator is vastly easier to use than current Inkscape. The rest of the interface might in fact be a nightmare, but:
'x' key - toggle fill/stroke active 'X' key - switch fill/stroke '/' key - remove either fill or stroke (whichever is active) Perhaps these keys will help you with your new job ;) Also lynda.com offers pretty good (paid) tutorials on AI, and there are tons of free ones out there.
Not to mention AI F/S parallels the FG/BG concept used by GIMP, Photoshop, et al.
Don't get me wrong - Inkscape does quite a few things better than AI. However, F/S is not one of them, Way, way too many steps involved to manage the appearance of an object. All IMO of course :)
Chris