On Tue, 8 May 2007, John Carter wrote:
On Mon, 7 May 2007, John R. Culleton wrote:
Is there a person onlist who has used recent versions of both Inkscape and Krita and would be willing to compare them? I have them both and am wondering where to invest my learning time.
Short Answer:
You are asking the wrong question.
So back off a second, ask yourself whether vector graphics or raster graphics is your aim? And then reask your question.
Ok, so maybe we're being a trifle unfair and unhelpful. You want to make pictures, quite likely both vector and raster and in paper docs and on the web. So what is the best package?
Linux.
In particular Ubuntu latest (fiesty fawn) is quite Good.
Why? Because you sometimes want raster (gimp best but little unfriendly, krita better UI and some nifty new features), sometimes vector (Inkscape's the best) and sometimes anyone of a dozen formats (ImageMagick will convert them all) and Linux has them all and will happily toss any format to any format and will never lock your data in a proprietary rat hole with no exits.
OpenOffice will integrate spreadsheets and documents with your pictures. Several HTML editors are floating around, scripting languages are lovely glue for gluing it all together in real time live....
What's more every Linux package expects you want to use other packages as part and parcel of constructing a document.
Windowsy users seek the One True Package that Will Do It All. Linuxy users seek The Best Tool for the particular job in hand, knowing they can use the output of this job as the input for the next job / matching Best Tool.....
...and then as after thought flourish glue everything together with scripts and slap it instantly on a web server live..
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