On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:19:49 -0600, Vincent - D. Ertner
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Hi,
Alexandro Colorado schrieb:
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.
So first step is to list them, put them on the wiki, make mockups and link
to the wikipage and create issues and attach to the wikipage then this
will be a good proposal. Then talk to the lead developers and propose this
roadmap. Also will suggest to look at the technical challenges on having
this issues. Example, how easy/hard is to change the Draw stylist or
generate new panels like they did for impress this time for Draw.
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.
Keybindings is a very sticky position in OOo, yes we have a
shortcut/keybind editor but some keys are restricted. Find first if you
can do this from the drawing editor and then propose the implementation,
if you cant then choose your alternative. However copying it just because
other software has it, is not enough of a point.
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.
Can you do a screencast of this, I actually dont get what you mean, also,
have u checked Karbon which could be the Freehad/Inkscape of KOffice. I
would like a comparison with it.
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.
Is this like the properties, I am not sure if Inkscape has it, will this
be the same of the stylist. I guess this should go really to UX, since a
lot has to do with UI petitions. I wonder if you can generate that
wikipage and re-submit everything to UX.
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
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Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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