Have you ever used the smart objects function found in the Adobe Suite since CS2? It practice it sucked on my slow machine but the idea was really good.You were able to embed a psd into a vector file and then when you edited the psd it would update it live in the vector file. To a degree Inkscape already has this when you embed a jpg - it only references the file, so when you edit it it is update in Inkscape - but it's not as elegant.
I think the closest we'll ever got to each of the programs working together is through file export, rather than the sharing of code. The most flexible file format I've seen so far is SVG. It can be embedded in GIMP, Blender, Scribus and lots of other programs. However, as you noted, the import/export features aren't always up to scratch!
Ant
2009/12/15 Donn <donn.ingle@...155...>:
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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