On Tuesday 15 December 2009 02:47:11 Rob Antonishen wrote:
Have you ever tried Xara http://www.xaraxtreme.org/about.html to see how it integrates vector/raster editing?
I had a stab at xara a couple of years ago, but since the whole 'closed kernel' controversy and many developers leaving ship, I gave up on it. I far prefer fropen source apps.
What did xara sport? What did you experience with it?
Personally, I mix bitmaps and Inkscape quite often. I often wish that Gimp could embed inside Inkscape and vice-versa. I wish the two could also embed into Blender. To tell the truth, I wish all three could be co-opted by external code so that amateur hackers (like me) could write dream apps that combine them all freely in interesting ways. Right now they are all islands of complex code written in toolkits and languages that keep oceans between them. The import and export functions are like badly beaten-up rafts that ferry between the three and often collapse and sink!
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