Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 10:43:42 +0400 From: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...155...> Reply-To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Effect Wishlist
On 9/5/05, Alan Horkan <horkana@...3...> wrote:
(My trial versions of Illustrator and Freehand have long since expired so I'd appreciate if others could provide feedback, best I can manage at the moment is reading their documentation or looking at Flash which behaves somewhat similarly).
What exactly woud you like to know? :)
Top of my list would be the Desaturate and other colour seperate related functionality like that. Mentioning some of the more intersting tools or effects might also be helpful.
I've been wondering about how some versions of Illustrator have both a Filter and Effect menu and how they reuse functionality from Photoshop and how that works.
-- Align by font size --
Adobe Illustrator came out of the Font design business but really this kind of layout seems like it would be more appropriate for Scribus but I suppose if someone was interested it wouldn't hurt. (A common plugin standard for creative apps might be nice so that these kinds of things didn't need to be reimplemented from scratch each time.)
Are you suggesting to jump between Inkscape and Scribus every time you think one of the features looks better in Scribus than in inkscape? :)
I'm urging restraint, maybe Inkscape can be great for Typography and Page Layout too but Scribus is all about Page Layout and might be a better choice for the task described.
Scribus is extra cool in page layouting and PDF exporting, but I wouldn't use it in regular work as a vector graphics tool.
Also, I'm pretty syre that common plugin standard is impossible ATM.
These things stay impossible if no one gives it any thought, no harm in keeping it in the back of our minds.
- Alan