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Xara X to Be Released as Open Source

Posted by Zonk on from the nice-to-have-options dept.

zero-one writes "Xara today announced that they are releasing an open source version of their vector drawing program, Xara Xtreme. They already have a Linux demo but source code is not available quite yet. Xara Xtreme on Linux will not only bring a leading-edge graphic tool to the platform, but with community assistance, has the potential to become the world's most powerful, easiest-to-use and simply the world's best graphics program. If they get this right it could bring the Linux desktop into whole sectors of the market that is has not been able to address before."

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  1. What does this really give us? by rknop · · Score: 0, Troll

    I ask the question not as a rhetorical question, but because I really want to know.

    What does Xara do that OpenOffice.org Draw does not? (Indeed, I still use XFig sometimes even though OOo Draw generally does more, because XFig does one or two things better than OOo Draw.)

    I'll tell you the feature I really want: full postscript import, *with* embedded images. I an get pretty far now with ps2fig followed by whatever the heck the name of the program that converts XFig to OOo Draw, but I lose any embedded images in the eps file in so doing.

    A secondary feature would be eps as "picture" objects *with* preview. OOo does eps as picture objects, but doesn't give you a preveiw unless the eps file itself has an embedded preview.

    But are there other things one would find in Xara that OOo Draw doesn't do?

  2. Re:Exaggeration? by HardCase · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sure he made sense - Linux is the kernel. GNU/Linux is the operating system. C'mon, if you're going to be pedantic, at least do it right!

    -h-