On May 24, 2:14 am, Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > William F. Adams wrote: > > > I desperately hope that you've looked at Altsys Virtuoso / Macromedia > > Freehand -- I'm dreading having to replace my iMac running 10.6 at > > work --- w/o Rosetta, 10.7 won't be able to run Freehand MX. > > I think you are aim a bit high. There aren't many people working on it > :) But I have used Freehand even in Aldus times, so of course I can get > inspired from it.
Excellent! Big things which I need are for the key-modifiers to work w/ the pen tool: - shift constrain seems to be over-applied / sticky --- it should only read the shift state when holding the key (to show where the path will be constrained to) --- releasing the shift key should restore freedom in placing the next node and it should allow one to place the next node w/ some sort of systematic constraint (sometimes it overly aggressively forces the node to be 90 or 180 degrees from the previously placed one) - holding down command should allow one to move the just placed node - holding down alt/option should allow one to move off-curve points independently of one another - clicking near the first placed node should close the path Also, tool buttons need to highlight / depress and the cursor needs to change to reflect the currently selected tool. > It is work in progress... and open for patches. I'm a designer and typesetter, not a programmer, but I'll see what I can do to help. > And complain at Apple for dropping Rosetta. I have. > Or complain for their > continuously uselessly changing operating systems. It's not useless if their stock continues to improve in price and if they become profitable enough to begin paying dividends. > I still run PPC, so > my binaries won't run without Rosetta. But of course, recompiling the > sources is easy. Why do you need to replace your Mac at all? WHy do you > need 10.7? It is all your choice. Because I do work which deals w/ thousands of files or pages or both and getting a newer, faster machine makes that work faster and more profitable and Apple isn't making any newer, faster machines which run 10.6 --- it's not something which is happening immediately, but it's something which I will eventually have to face when the economics make sense, or the machine dies and needs to be replaced --- I said ``dreading'', so it's in the future. > That is why open source it is important: the freedom! You decide where > to compile, which platforms to support... The Macintosh port of Graphos > is my work. > Of course it is also the drawback: people must work on it. No free lunch. Agreed. I donate as much as I can to the TeX User's Group and their funding of the development of tools which I use --- is there a 501c3 which I can add to my United Way contribution next year which will fund GNUstep and apps like Graphos? William _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
