Re: Sodipodi vs Sketch and Killustrator

[Jean Francois Martinez <jfm2@club-internet.fr>]

Darin Lang a écrit :

> I would be willing to try these, I am a graphic designer. I have used
> Killustrator and found it extremely difficult and unwieldy. I am using
> version 0.7.1, the current version. Sketch doesn't run on Xfree86 and it
> says it is not ready for general use,

Sketch  _does_  run on Xfree86. I have tried it (but cannot evaluate it since
I know nothing about vector graphics).  However on a distro like Slackware who
does not check dependencies there is a 99% chance your problem is due to a
missing component like Python or PIL (Python Imaging Library).  I think PIL
is not shipped in Slackware.  Old Sketch uses TK and is ugly.


> and Sodipodi says it is not ready for
> general use yet either, besides it comes only as an RPM which does not work
> with Slackware Linux.

Alien can convert RPMs into tgzs for Slackware, I think alien is inckluded in
Slackware.



> Killustrator is probably the best bet, although it
> needs work and none has been done on it since Fall of 1999 according to the
> web site.
>
>     I have Illustrator, Freehand, Extreme 3D, AutoCAD, Flash, Fireworks and
> others on both the Mac and Win98. So I am spoiled and there is no way I
> could get any work done with KIllustrator. But for very simple stuff it is
> serviceable.
>

The freeware vector graphics programs in Linux are not in that league and I
don't
know of any commercial one.   Linux has the GIMP and also very good raytracers
and modellers (including Renderman, Maya, the modeller used for Mozilla and
many
more).  But in vector graphics I fear we will have to look for the less bad.

BTW what is the difference betwee a CAD program like QCAD and a vector graphics

program?


                                                        JFM