Many thanks for the consideration Bulia.
You did not mention the ability to create bevels though. For realistic web buttons and fun objects to drop into other graphic art work they DO come in handy!! It's a feature set that interests me greatly.
Or how about bitmaps interacting with vectors, as in: a vector object slicing a bitmap??
Are there any plans to make the dialogs stay "On Top" and not create more task bar objects?? Like make all those dialogs more internalized so that there is just one taskbar object visible? I would also like to see an option to dock the dialogs or tab them into easch other so I don't have keep invoking them and closing them out. If I don't then the work area gets cluttered up!
I know Inkscape is in it's infancy so please don't think I'm pushing I'm just suggesting! :-)
Richard ;-)~
----- Original Message ----- From: "bulia byak" <archiver_1@...9...> To: <ramarts44@...7...>; inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 11:08 AM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] horny user
: Hi, : : I've been a heavy Xara user until recently. Now I do about half of my design : work in Inkscape. It cannot yet do everything that Xara can, but what it can : do, it does in a much more usable and flexible way. One example is the : complete and precise (pixel-by-pixel) keyboard control for scaling, : rotating, and now kerning and letterspacing. I feel pain now when I use Xara : and have to constatntly switch from keys to mouse and back. And as for : Illustrator, oh, that's much worse in usability department than even Xara. : : > : In XaraX you can add bevels and shadows to vector objects while the : > : objects remain fully editable, it's a very nice extra that no one else : >seems : > : to have going out there including Illustrator, Canvas or CorelDraw!! : : We will eventually have a much more complete support for this kind of : features when we implement SVG filters. For example, Xara can only do : monochrome shadows that are bound to the parent object (if you separate it, : the shadow becomes a bitmap). We will have a gaussian blur of arbitrary : object, which is a superset of Xara's shadow and never downgrades to a : bitmap. : : > : bevel types total in XaraX). The ability to use a vector to slice or : >cut a : > : bitmap shape, : : That's easy to do with our new boolean ops. Hopefully the slice command will : be ready for the next version. : : > : I think it might be worth a look at to maybe glean some ideas for : >future : > : implementation to make Inkscape really stand out from the rest of the : > : Linux/Win based vector/SVG apps. : : Don't worry, I will never forget Xara even when I leave it for good :) Many : of the stuff I added to Inkscape was inspired by Xara, but I always tried to : do it better than Xara instead of just copying it. : : _________________________________________________________________ : STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* : http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2f... : :