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<div>=== From: Grant ===<br />
Date: August 16, 2006<br />
Subject: Inkscape has promise but I can't use it<br />
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I had very high hopes for Inkscape 0.44 installed on my new MacBook (MacOSX 10.4.7) as I had hoped to avoid having to buy a copy of Illustrator for it. Unfortunately, though I can import and edit my existing SVG files from Illustrator (on another machine) without serious problems, I have been unable to export them as correct EPS or PDF, which I require for a book I'm working on. The EPS files display dashed lines as solid, and the PDF files, though they are non-empty (about the same size as the EPS files) don't display at all in MacOS Previewer -- I get a blank page. In short, I simply can't use it for the purpose I had in mind. I'm sure it's fine if you can live with SVG-only format files and/or print directly from Inkscape. It's possible that there's something wrong with my installation, but I've reinstalled it a couple of times from different sites and I've verified that I have the latest versions of gs, pstoedit, and similar utilities.<br />
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Also, although the docs allude to the capability of importing AI or EPS under certain circumstances, I have been absolutely unable to figure out from the information on line how to make this actually work. SVG seems to be my only current option for importing existing files.<br />
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I'm posting this not to discourage people from trying out Inkscape but rather to caution those who might view its current implementation as a reasonable working substitute for a commercial package like AI. Maybe I'm just unlucky, or maybe it's just a MacOSX problem. If there's something wrong with my installation, then it's clearly something that the average user (like me) won't easily be able to debug without a lot of effort and outside guidance. Questions or comments may be sent to gpetty @ aos.wisc.edu<br />
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=== From: Proxi ===<br />
Date: August 2006<br />
Subject: Inkscape rocks !<br />
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Hello,<br />
Inkscape is a very good vector software with amazing possibilities.<br />
Congratulations to the Inkscape Team.<br />
<br />
=== From: User Bats ===<br />
Date: March 2006<br />
Subject: Notes from a recent job using Inkscape.<br />
<br />
Hey, <br />
Please go to [[User:Bats|my user page]] where I have a write-up about Inkscape 0.43 and my recent thoughts and comments written just after I had finished the job.<br />
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Inkscapes makes Linux really cool (from my perspective), keep it up!<br />
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=== From: Gab Studio ===<br />
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004<br />
Subject: Great software !!!<br />
<br />
Hi;<br />
<br />
I'm just trying *INSKCAPE* and would like to *congratulate you all*.<br />
<br />
I join my first work... if you want to add it in the galery :)<br />
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BRAVO again from France for this great software<br />
have fun<br />
<br />
regards<br />
<br />
Gab<br />
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=== From: Jared Thompson ===<br />
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004<br />
Subject: awesome program<br />
<br />
I know this may not be according to the purposes of this list,<br />
<br />
but I just wanted to say that I recently discovered inkscape and I think<br />
it is quite an impressive program so far.<br />
I have been playing with it non stop for the past few days and love it,<br />
the website is also nice and clean.<br />
there are plenty of tips and in the program a help file that gives a<br />
good overview to get beginners started<br />
<br />
I will be looking forward to contribute what I can as time goes forward.<br />
<br />
again,<br />
just wanted to say thanks for an awesome program<br />
<br />
-jared<br />
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=== From: Artemio ===<br />
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004<br />
Subject: thank you<br />
<br />
Dear Inkscape developers,<br />
<br />
at first, please take my sincere congratulations - Inkscape is on the 3rd<br />
place in my top 5 list of most used applications! :-)<br />
<br />
You have made possible what I have dreamt for over two years since I started<br />
using Linux (I use ONLY Linux since that time). You have done a really great<br />
work. Inkscape has absolutely everything I need from a vector editor and even<br />
more. It's very light, fast and the interface is very straightforward and<br />
intuitive. Thank you, thank you very much!<br />
<br />
Frankly, you have blown all my expectations away - I didn't think someone<br />
would do font->path thing possible, this is amazing! Now I can bring my SVGs<br />
_anywhere_ and they will be read just as I made them (already tested this).<br />
<br />
Please excuse me for talking too much, it's just that I really respect your<br />
work and wish you all the best! I do have some little suggestions to you, but<br />
I will write them in my next message :-)<br />
<br />
Good luck to you all and thanks so much again!<br />
<br />
<br />
Artemio.<br />
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=== From: Charles Goodwin ===<br />
Date: Sun, 09 May 2004<br />
Subject: Re: wow, this is amazing!<br />
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Everything about Inkscape has been impressive thus far, not least of<br />
which the speed with which action is taken to address any issue.<br />
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- Charlie<br />
<br />
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=== From: Trent Buck ===<br />
Date: Tue, Jun 8, 2004<br />
Subject: Re: new illustrator screenshots<br />
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Quoth Alan Horkan on or about 2004-06-08:<br />
<blockquote><br />
<br />
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Trent Buck wrote:<br><br />
<i>FWIW, I think inkscape's UI is already better than AI's.</i><br />
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You said Inkscape is better so I make it a challenge to you to list more<br />
ways, and maybe we can start a comparision chart in the Wiki which would<br />
be useful for promoting Inkscape.<br />
</blockquote><br />
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OK, I'll confess, I haven't used AI for than about half-an-hour, because<br />
I couldn't get the hang of the interface. Let me itemize my reasons for<br />
using Inkscape.<br />
<br />
Bear in mind that these are my *opinions*, not necessarily *right* in a<br />
technical sense. I'll put a ' ' in front of things that are actually UI.<br />
<br />
Inkscape beats AI<br />
<br />
As a newbie, I found the Inkscape (well, sodipodi) interface to be<br />
pretty self-explanatory. Using AI I get the feeling I should take a<br />
3-day course just to learn how to use it.<br />
(Maybe this is just because of all the extra features, I don't know.)<br />
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It's free. When something happens I can check the source. It is<br />
also far easier to add or request features.<br />
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It works on linux. Enough said.<br />
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The GTK toolkit is relatively clean, customizable and robust.<br />
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Inkscape beats Sodipodi<br />
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The larger community results in faster growth in all areas.<br />
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Boolean operations. Miscellaneous tweaks make Inkscape more<br />
comfortable.<br />
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Inkscape beats both of them<br />
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Buttons are around the edge. It has been shown by HCI folks that<br />
this is a far better design than the toolkit approach. Fitts' Law<br />
states that you can click screen corners and edges far faster than, <br />
say, 10px in from the edge.<br />
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Fitts' law<br />
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Likewise, this means everthing is in one window, which works much<br />
better with my windowmanager (http://ratpoison.sf.net).<br />
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Keybindings for everything. I don't normally even have a rodent<br />
plugged into my system, so being able to stay keyboard-centered is a<br />
major advantage.<br />
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I should also point out that I'm not really an artistic person, my<br />
strengths are more oriented in mathematics, english and science. I am a<br />
CS student by profession. I mostly use Inkscape when I need an image<br />
and there isn't a specialized tool to draw it.<br />
<br />
It could well be that I don't see Inkscape's deficiencies because my<br />
drawings aren't complicated enough to need them.<br />
<br />
-trent<br />
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=== From: Richard MacIntyre ===<br />
<br />
Unless they've already mentioned it hereon, Julian MacDonald has kindly written a script, and Francois Guillet has just begun work on an SVG plugin, respectively, for SVG import into Art of Illusion- a 3D program- from Inkscape. see: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1117167</div>Ti6J8z