Hi, Alexandro Colorado schrieb: > The hordes of email asking for "bring OOo Powerpoint back" will haunt us > from decades to come.
Right you are - my bad. :))) It wouldn't even help to call it "DrawPowerPublish" or something - you're right ... at least we should think about doing that merge behind the scenes, ie we could offer the modules "Impress" (rather "Present"), "Draw" and "Publish" and at the same time unify the user interface and key bindings ... then it would be easier to merge them all one fine day ... :) >> FreeHand has Web-Export, Presentation features etc ... and is one of the >> few applications (like Draw) out there, that supports multiple documents >> in one file - which is an awesome and absolutely necessary feature for >> any kind of design process, as you evolve your logos step by step >> (usually). > Does Freehand has animation? 3D modeling? FreeHand has animation features [1] and it is able to make 3D-Modeling - although it's less sophisticated than with a dedicated 3D app. >> Draw just needs some features from FreeHand and Inkscape and others to >> become a real whooping component ... and I think it should be feasable. > Which of those whopping features are currently in impress? None, afaik. What really is missing is something like having brushes in order to draw non-linear lines, a zooming, placing and altering (resizing, rotating etc) user interface, which just "feels right" and the extremely nice implementation for colour handling and object properties and styles. Just to elaborate this a little: In almost every graphical app I've worked with so far, it was possible to zoom-in with Ctrl+Space+Mouse and to zoom out with Ctrl+Alt+Space+Mouse. They usually (like Acrobat Reader and others) support Ctrl+0, Ctrl+1 etc for different zoom factors, which are in addition provided as menu entries. When it comes to design, you usually need a set of colours, which is linked to the objects, ie you define a colour which you think could work for the purpose and later on just adjust the colour - and all objects, whom the colour has been assigned to will be automatically changed accordingly. Having an object inspector helps to keep track of the most important things like width and height, of how many components the group consists etc. And alike the colours it is also very useful, to have the styles (text, box, text and box styles) at hand and to easily create a cascading design (by specifying the changed attributes) while visually keeping track of all the styles. I know that we have that with F11 in Draw and the other components too - but this is a rudimentary replacement for a *real* management console. In fact I pray for the day that this design failure (the format style dialog and the format style "chooser") will be finally enanced, merged and will become usefull - but that's another story. :))) [1] http://www.joesparks.com/macr/FRX/chapter_2.htm -- Cheers, \\|// Vince (o o) ----------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo------------------------- ''' (o)_(o) [ ][0][ ] ô¿ô (=°o°=) World Domination by Copy and Paste [ ][ ][0] - (")_(") [0][0][0] () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments Ooo. ---------------------------.ooO----( )------------------------- ( ) (_/ \_) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
