OpenDraw

Please post links to screenshots and/or insights of this vector app. We must learn from others.

OpenDraw remains more featureful than Inkscape:

• Better support for 3D.
• Better import/export capability.
• (Please add to this list, I gather there are many others.)

Nevertheless, there are some areas where it's better to use Inkscape:

• SVG support
• OpenDraw's rounded rectangles have pre-defined curvature, there doesn't seem to be a way of editing the radius or squashedness of the curve as in inkscape.
• Spirals, stars & calligraphy pen are fairly unique to Inkscape & Sodipodi.
• Apparently OpenDraw can't fill curves with a gradient or pattern.
• OpenDraw doesn't have mid-markers, only end markers (arrow heads).
• "Simplify curve" missing from OpenDraw (unique to Inkscape?)
• OpenDraw has only 3 boolean operations.
• Inkscape does better at text-on-path. It seems that OpenDraw requires converting text to curve first, so one can't edit the text after putting it on a curve.
• Inset/outset (unique to inkscape?)
• Patterns in Inkscape (SVG) aren't restricted to bitmaps.

Links

Presentation on OpenDraw: http://www.openoffice.org/product/draw.html

OpenDraw tutorials (among many others):

• http://www.linuxgraphic.org/section2d/articles/startoff/index.html
• http://www2.ac-rennes.fr/crdp/29/ie/aides/imgnum/vectoriel-draw/vectoriel-draw.htm

License

Not known offhand, but it's Free Software (possibly GPL).