On 7/23/07, momo <momo@...1935...> wrote:
Personally I wouldn't recommend Inkscape for professional use in the field of logo or print design. It is still a very young and promising application suitable for creating icons, web graphics and illustrations, but creating such an important thing as a logo (a whole corporate identity can be based on this apparently simple thing) is not a task for Inkscape.
It always amazes me when a huge creative design task is being reduced to some technical detail. Choosing Pantone color(s) is important for corporate logos, but it's only a small part of the job, and it's pretty orthogonal to anything else because a good logo must look perfect in black and white anyway. It's easy to use AI or whatever else for the CMYK and Pantone selection after the logo is done. But 99% of work is playing with shapes and letters, and this is where Inkscape is IMHO unrivaled.
- a robust PDF import/export (the brave Inkscape developers are working on
that, 0.46 should be the first version with that possibility). It is crucial to have a full import/export capability for at least one widely used vector format, and PDF is IMO one of the best candidates. Without that, all the works you do in Inkscape are sentenced to stay "Inkscape only" files. A logo simply MUST be portable between applications (Illustrator, Indesign, Quark, Corel etc...).
For logos especially, our PS and PDF export has been quite adequate for many versions, because decent logos never use things like blur or transparency, nor even gradients. Even our EPS import, while cumbersome, has always been able to handle simple shapes. And in SVN you have a pretty functional PDF import which also handles modern AI files.