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Alternatives To Adobe's Creative Suite?
jsepeta writes "I've been using Adobe products for years, and own several older versions of the products from their Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Acrobat Pro, and Dreamweaver. I'd like to teach some graphic design and web production skills to my coworkers in the marketing department, and realize that most of them can't afford $2500 to buy Adobe's premium suite and, frankly, shouldn't need to because there should be competitive products on the market. But I can't seem to locate software for graphic design and printing that outputs CMYK files that printing companies will accept. And I'm not familiar with any products that are better than FrontPage yet still easy to use for Web design. Any suggestions? Our company is notoriously frugal and would certainly entertain the idea of using open source products if we could implement them in a way that doesn't infringe upon our Microsoft-centric hegemony / daily work tasks in XP."
The list goes on, but my fingers got tired.
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Linux is NOT, and will NEVER be a replacement for Mac OS X.
In the same way just like a Ford Mustang from 1973 can never be a replacement for today's Lincoln Navigator.
Please avoid such comparisons. It makes me puke whenever people say Linux is actually an equal to Mac OS X.
"Doing what i can, with what i have." ~ Burt Gummer
GIMP isn't meant for rounded rectangles. It's not a vector program and doesn't even try to do vector stuff; [..] you can export a .png in Inkscape just as much you can import a .svg in GIMP.
GIMP isn't meant to solve all graphics problems. It's part of a toolkit.
Ok so your solution to the fact you can't draw a rounded rectangle in GIMP is, go to another program, draw it, save it and import it in GIMP.
We're not talking about vector art complete with 90 layers of shading touches and sophisticated structure. We're talking about a rectangle.
But you're right, if you need a rounded rectangle, it must be vector and diagramming work. I mean, who would've thought rounding the edges on a raster rectangle in a web design, for example? Have you seen a web site with rounded raster panels. I haven't.