Hi, in my point of view Draw is an vector graphic application. Didn't know that you can do some pixel graphic edit stuff. maybe some color and crop filters but this things are available in writer too.
In an office suite I don't need something like inkscape, but I would need something like make same example drawings and flow charts (like MS Visio) or for pdf import and manipulation. Generate some vector graphics together with base would be a nice feature for advanced users. As MS Visio is not avaiblable in the standard MS Office package and you have to by an additional (not to cheep) licence it would be a unique selling point for LibreOffice. In the Office you have a lot of pdf files, sometimes you want to change something (remove an paragraph, ...) or draw an chart. For foto (pixel graphics) you ordinary don't open base. maybe when you import the picture in writer but there you have your pictur manipulatin stuff. It's an drawing programm for an office suite so the focus would be what do you do in your office. I'm happy that you look after an vision for Draw Andreas Kainz 2016-02-03 11:54 GMT+01:00 Jan-Marek Glogowski <glo...@fbihome.de>: > Hi, > > just as an other data point I want to give you some information, why we > (as City of Munich) added Calligra Flow to edit flowcharts / ODG based > flow diagrams. > > We originally used Kivio in KDE3 and 1 1/2 years ago we were faced with > the problem, that users had a lot of Kivio files, which weren't readable > by any other program then Kivio, As Kivio was part of KOffice, it wasn't > available for KDE4 and long dead. > > In the end we wrote a converter to convert kivio to odg. This works > great for us, but we saw two main problems with Draw: > > 1. Bug 83360, which effected the result of our converted output > 2. A much larger standard symbol set in Flow for technical diagrams > > From my personal POV, which is of a non-user of these tool, LO probably > just needs an additional interface preset for Flow charts, and a new > "new filetype", just like the special wizards for labels, business cards > etc., and save this custom setting in the odg file. > > Just defaulting to an open gallery side bar and enabling the grid makes > Draw look much like known Flow charting programs like MS Visio or Kivio, > which people feel already familiar with. > > I didn't check the licenses of dia and calligra flow clip art galleries. > That even may be a good collaboration point and is probably easily fixable. > > HTH > > Jan-Marek > > P.S. I don't see the online searchable, extension based openclipart > gallery as an alternative to a well defined, integrated flowchart > gallery set. > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted