Actually, I know about Xara since 1997 or 1998 (I was Windows man till 6 monts ago). It was the main reason for my migration to Linux and I use it every day in my job.
But since Xara isn't one of the big vector graphic tools, many Linux users may not know about it. I found it very useful for making still images for Cinelerra as well. It handles text much more easily than GIMP or any other thing I saw so far. So I just want to let everyone know, that such thing exist. All the best! Miha On čet, 2006-10-12 at 19:22 +0200, Ichthyostega wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Miha Kiti? schrieb: > > Hi all! > > > > This may be a bit out of the topic but... > > > > How many of you know about / use XaraLX? > > If you do, what do you think about it? > > > > Hello, > > yes, I am using it since it was usable (Version 0.5), so I > don't have much experiece. But I can only say, its INCREDIBLE!! > > I used incscape some time as well. Incscape has a slightly different > focus (SVG), but in xara, all is so fast and seems well-thougt. > I am happy to abandon using CorelDraw on Windows in favour of Xara. > A shame that this beutiful piece of software is not known widely > (there is a windows version availabe for a more than resonable price) > > Ant the interesting thing is: those guys manage to build an advanced > GUI on top of wxWidgets, i.e. cross-platform (They are working on a > mac version as well, which is very important for graphics/media software) > > There is only one problem, hopefully only at the moment. One central libray > of xara, the CDraw-Library ist not open source at the moment. It was promised > to free this as well, but there seem to be some issues (patents or so IIRC) to > be sorted out. So at the moment, it is not "real" open soft, rather "intended" > open soft. For example this means it can't go in the main debian distro > (but there is a package "xaralx" in non-free) > > So, just go ahead and try it out! > > Cheers, > Hermann > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFFLnnWZbZrB6HelLIRArDzAJ9j1sk17wM3t0EPaFLh/usQyUdXlgCeNAIn > 9qF1rkkAy0CG0La3CIpvVMQ= > =BoZW > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Cinelerra mailing list > [email protected] > https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra > _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
