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Introduction To Inkscape And Its Future

Posted by timothy on from the patches-from-the-blue dept.

WarriorC writes "Bryce Harrington, Inkscape's founder, wrote an article introducing his brainchild and where its development is heading (see: Illustrator-killer). Some screenshots of the latest CVS version are included." It's also a nice glimpse into an "unorganized" but nonetheless successful open source process.

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  1. Re:Trivial? by rdewalt · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm surprised that one of the first features isn't "Fully Skinnable Interface"

    Unlike a certain OS video editor that the name of escapes me, which had -THAT- as its very first Feature element. Yeah, that makes me leap into inspirational fury.

  2. Re:What makes this a killer? by metamatic · · Score: 3, Funny

    What's Photoshop's market share on Linux? I've not seen any figures.

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    GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
  3. Illustrator killer by tit4tat · · Score: 2, Funny

    If he wanted to write an Illustrator killer, shouldn't he have called it "Killustrator"? Oh, wait. That name's taken.

    (Sorry, couldn't stop myself.)

  4. Re:Inkscape Rocks!!! by Mattintosh · · Score: 3, Funny

    As a guy who sits here at his desk with about 200 Visio-made drawings in a stack on his desk, I say...

    ANYTHING IS A GOOD REPLACEMENT FOR VISIO.

    Thank you. That is all.