On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Alex wrote:

Congrats on the progress with Inkscape, many of us Illustrator/Cdraw users are experimenting and following the progress of the project. I have a few comments if anyone is interested (By no means am I a professional GA/GD):

1. I noticed some important features that I use are not fully

implemented: object locking and hiding (try unlocking or unhiding an object) and moving objects to different layers (layers is very new already for inkscape).

I believe these are already on the todo list.

2. I would like to see as part of a FAQ on using Inkscape amongst

Illustrator users. Howto import/export documents between the two and the problems we might have (things to avoid). What format is best (seems EPS and SVG work partially in different ways). 0.40 has ability to save as .ai but gives me an error message on saving so I don't know how good it works. Illustrator has heaps of options to save/export files - anyone worked out which work best? I will share anything i discover on the way.

This is not a bad idea - could you start a page on this in Wiki (assuming there isn't one already?) I don't know if we have a lot of people using Illustrator and Inkscape together like this, but imagine that at some point people are going to want to be able to interoperate, so this would be good to start capturing tips & tricks for it.

3. The FAQ could also give suggestion on preperation of documents for

printing (professional printers that is) ie. text convert to outlines, colour/file formats usually preferred etc etc. It seems printing and exporting as bitmap avoids loss of my effects (transperancies etc). Printing postscript doesn't work too well in that respect. Alex

Another good idea. Also, have you looked at Scribus? It does some print preparation stuff that Inkscape currently does not, and the Inkscape<->Scribus interoperability is not too bad (it's received a good bit of attention over the last year).

Bryce