Hi all,
I wanted to let you know the Sept issue Linux Format UK has published a very nice review of Linux drawing applications, as well as a short tutorial for both Inkscape and Scribus.
Inkscape 0.38 got 8/10 overall and tied with OO draw to top honors. Overall a very positive review. Ease of use got 9/10. Many of the comments on missing features are already in 0.39 or are on the 0.40 roadmap.
Summing up, they said: "The future of Inkscape looks bright, especially if planned cooperation with Scribus and the GIMP comes to fruition, which would finally realise the concept of a full-spec graphics suite to Linux....The crucial omissions are support for PDF and EPS formats, though getting around this is not too onerous with a little help from Scribus."
If it is available locally it might be worth getting.
Enjoy, Peter
On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 09:37 +0100, Plinnell wrote:
"The crucial omissions are support for PDF and EPS formats"
Can't that be gotten at rather simply through gnome-print? That's how (at least) AbiWord outputs to PDF.
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Plinnell wrote:
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:37:42 +0100 From: Plinnell <scribusdocs@...210...> To: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, scribus@...205..., inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Linux Format UK Article
Hi all,
I wanted to let you know the Sept issue Linux Format UK has published a very nice review of Linux drawing applications, as well as a short tutorial for both Inkscape and Scribus.
We discussed it already in quite a bit of detail on the Inkscape developer list. (Inkscape also appeared much more briefly in issues 55).
Inkscape 0.38 got 8/10 overall and tied with OO draw to top honors.
concept of a full-spec graphics suite to Linux....The crucial omissions are support for PDF and EPS formats, though getting around this is not too onerous with a little help from Scribus."
if some one had time to evaluate the gnome-print support that we carried over from Sodipodi and make sure it works properly that would provide us with another way to generate PDF but it is unlikely to be as good as what Scribus produces.
- Alan
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Alan Horkan wrote:
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:23:38 +0100 (BST) From: Alan Horkan <horkana@...3...> To: Plinnell <scribusdocs@...210...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Linux Format UK Article
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Plinnell wrote:
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:37:42 +0100 From: Plinnell <scribusdocs@...210...> To: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, scribus@...205..., inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Linux Format UK Article
Hi all,
I wanted to let you know the Sept issue Linux Format UK has published a very nice review of Linux drawing applications, as well as a short tutorial for both Inkscape and Scribus.
We discussed it already in quite a bit of detail on the Inkscape developer list. (Inkscape also appeared much more briefly in issues 55).
Here's a link to that discussion about Linux Format #56 Inkscape review https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=5278713&forum_id...
Sincerely
Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ http://advogato.org/proj/OpenClipArt.org/
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