On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:15:18 -0800 (PST) From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...69...> Reply-To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Inkscape-user] My impressions on Inkscape
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Jozsef Mak wrote:
Inkscape, in some ways, is in a similar situation as Freehand was a few years ago. It is new,
I'm pretty sure Freehand has been around a long time (the wikipedia article about Illustrator talks about Aldus Freehand on the Macintosh many moons ago) but that doesn't make any of your other comments less true. There are clearly times when back compatibility needs to be sacrificied to make progress and reach a wider audience.
it doesn�t have to worry backward compatibility issues
and free to think out a development strategy which can make it flexible (in terms of usability) and in the mean time it can devise its own character. In my view, it makes lots of sense to take a good look at the commercial programs, adapt what is great in them, and discard the rest. This way of approaching to developing Inkscape would not make it a clone; far from it.
Yup, exactly, you got it. We want to synthesize good ideas from a lot of sources and hopefully produce something which pushes the ball forward in a few areas, too. :-)
If you look through Inkscape's Wiki, you can see some pages that people have written that review various applications. It would be wonderful to flesh those out further, and add more pages about additional applications.
I spent a while adding comments recently on a variety of applicatiosn but I'd appreciate comments on the strenghts of FreeHand in particular because I have only tried it briefly and found it extremly weird in comparision to applications I had used before, only my brief use of Flash prepared me for it.
I'm trying to avoid negative comments about other applictions or dwelling for too long on what Inkscape does better than these other applications because (it is unnecessary and) negative comparison advertising is not a great idea.
- Alan