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New Inkscape is an astounding little program.
I've been playing with Inkscape pretty heavily since you guys clued me into it, and I have to say that I am impressed. Very, very impressed.

Currently it has every feature I used in CorelDraw when drawing Help Desk -- incuding a feature CorelDraw *didn't* have (at least, one I couldn't find). The only thing it's missing is the some of the nicer aspects of CorelDraw's UI, and that simply reflects Inkscape's relatively young development stage. And one fairly annoying bug that trips me up every time (when you attempt to edit text it crashes) which is the sole thing that has prevented me from switching over to Linux entirely.

CorelDraw supports the SVG format, so I was able to export everything from my Help Desk and Kernel Panic templates without any difficulty (as soon as I figured out the right export setting -- save styles in the file itself, do not attempt to embed a stylesheet, or it will remove all your color and line weight information).

The UI of Inkscape is at this point more functional than elegant, but they're working on it. One of the nice things about it is that every command is mapped to a keyboard combination (something that was *not* the case in CorelDraw. Not all of the keyboard combinations are convenient to use, but they're configurable.

Inkscape doesn't support many file formats. It uses SVG as it's "native" format, and it exports to some version of PDF and PNG. That's all right for me -- PNG is what I use for Help Desk. The *really* nice thing about Inkscape is that when you export to PNG, any part of an image that crosses the page borders you've defined is automatically cropped. CorelDraw didn't do this, and after creating a comic I often had to open up a raster editing program and crop the damn thing myself. This makes life a lot easier in that respect.

Alas, Inkscape doesn't give you many export options -- I can't, for example, specify that I want to save the graphic as an 8-bit PNG, and I can't specify a cap on the number of colors I want to use in the picture. On the other hand, I do have pngcrush. (Note to self: check to see if there is a front end for pngcrush that allows you to work with multiple files simultaneously)

At the moment, Inkscape's weakest link is text. The tools are awkward -- that said, they aren't nearly as awkward as the tools for Photo>Graphics, which I used for years and years and years before getting tired of the way it handled text, and unlike Photo>Graphics there are people actually trying to *improve* what Inkscape currently has. There is that one "little" problem with the font crash. I need to check to see if it's already logged before I report it.

Anyway. My point is, I'm really impressed with this application. Thanks for pointing it out to me.
"We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?"
- Edward Young
New You might try "sketch" as well.
Sketch seems to support what it needs to.

And it can do the text thing.

It ain't purty, or powerful, but text editing it can.

Also, *I* can edit text in Debian Proper with Inkscape and have no problems.

I am Using Inkscape 0.41-2.

One other thing too. You might have better luck with Sodi-Podi (though I know it is different Peter) it might just be ale to edit the text for you after you do the bulk of the work in inkscape.
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Expand Edited by folkert March 18, 2005, 04:26:26 PM EST
New Re: You might try "sketch" as well.
I think it's something that was introduced with the nightly build I downloaded. I do have Sodi Podi installed, but apparently it has ceased development... so I'm working mostly in Inkscape, with the intention of dutify testing, commenting, reporting bugs... I can't code, but I'll do whatever else I can.
"We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?"
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New Good.
You owe me.

I expect a caricature of myself to show up!

Hey Drew (Or Greg, not sure), where's my sting like a butterfly picture?
New You know...
that's how Henry joined the cast. So it can be done. :)
"We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?"
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New I was thinking that from the very beginning
You asked, I went to Freshmeat.
I queried on graphics applications.
I downloaded and tried 3 or 4 until I hit on Inkscape.
I have NO artistic ability, but I demand a LOT.
So if I liked it, and the demo pictures were REALLY good, and it satisfied your requirements, then I figured it was worth recommending.
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Expand Edited by folkert March 18, 2005, 10:59:14 PM EST
     Inkscape is an astounding little program. - (cwbrenn) - (7)
         You might try "sketch" as well. - (folkert) - (1)
             Re: You might try "sketch" as well. - (cwbrenn)
         Good. - (broomberg) - (4)
             You know... - (cwbrenn) - (1)
                 I was thinking that from the very beginning - (broomberg)
             Here - (drewk)
             In my pictures. - (folkert)

Is it me, or is the band getting bigger?
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