Anyone know the basic differences between Open Office Draw and Inkscape? Although I have oodraw installed on my box, I've only just looked at it and never really used it. I did notice that it can't open svg files (in version 1.1.4 anyway) though it does export to svg.
Thanks, Wayne
--- wayne <iw@...519...> wrote:
Anyone know the basic differences between Open Office Draw and Inkscape? Although I have oodraw installed on my box, I've only just looked at it and never really used it. I did notice that it can't open svg files (in version 1.1.4 anyway) though it does export to svg.
Thanks, Wayne
OODraw's bezier and freehand tools are a lot more annoying to use, in my opinion. Although in many ways Inkscape's bezier tool is a bit cruder, it's designed better.(i.e., you can already do *more* with it, and as soon as it gets some more UI polish it'll beat the pants off OODraw).
I didn't realize OODraw can export to svg -- I *looked* for that feature and couldn't find it...
OODraw's bezier and freehand tools are a lot more annoying to use, in my opinion. Although in many ways Inkscape's bezier tool is a bit cruder, it's designed better.(i.e., you can already do *more* with it, and as soon as it gets some more UI polish it'll beat the pants off OODraw).
Have you either checked to see if an RFE exists for this or filed one for how to polish up the UI for the Bezier tool by chance? If you have any recommendations for how it could be improved we'd love to know what could be done better. Thanks for the feedback!
-Josh
wayne wrote:
Anyone know the basic differences between Open Office Draw and Inkscape? Although I have oodraw installed on my box, I've only just looked at it and never really used it. I did notice that it can't open svg files (in version 1.1.4 anyway) though it does export to svg.
I dislike two things at OOo Draw: its lack of antialiasing on drawings, which make it useless for anything beyond simple usage and (subjective criteria) how it feel when drawing freeform lines and adjusting nodes.
On the plus side, OOo Draw has nice connectors, useful for creating flowcharts and a powerful export to PDF. The real power of Draw is how it interact with the rest of the suite (for example copy one element from Writer, paste on Draw, rotate, copy and paste again in Writer).
I can go listing a lot of small differences and annoyances I would feel like completely trashing Draw, which is not a thing I would like to do (I am somehow affiliated with OOo).
I am using Win2000. Inkscape 27th May 05.
It is a while since I've done much with Inkscape and I have probably set something up incorrectly. But I don't know what.
I set up to print with Arial at font size 100. Then I print and the letters are 20mm high.
I set up CorelDraw and do the same. The letters are 25mm high. Same with Word.
Ie Inkscape appears to be printing out at 4/5 of the correct size. This seems so basic that I feel I must be doing something wrong or have a setting wrong. Any suggestions or comments?
Erik
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