On 01/07/07, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
do doubt a professional artist can use only inkscape and produce good things.
Keep doubting, realities wont change. the person I refered uses only free software for his professional work. he uses inkscape, gimp etc for his work and has also been doing loads of international level work regarding designing, photo editing etc.
But to say that inkscape is 100% feature compatible with corel draw is wrong. It will only give FOSS a bad name. There are some things FOSS cant yet do - 3d cad for example. It is better to be honest and honesty will help the foss cause.
it is better to be honest and honestly some people indeed give free software a bad name by spoiling reputations of some softwares which are known to be top quality. again, a software may sound non user friendly to one person but it is wrong to generalise. and when there are proofs from professionals who testify gimp and inkscape, there is no need to doubt their efficiency. we are soon having workshops for gimp and inkscape in a month or so and we are not just planning to give a demo but hands on for those interested. it is ok to be mis guided by some one (that could be an unfortunate mishap) but it is wrong to pass that mis guidance to others. I can't comment on alternatives for autocad because I don't know much about it and nither do I know any one who does it with free software. may be just like no accounting alternative this might be another case "_to be honest_". but plese don't generalise on ones own feeling and experience. I know a few people who say "open office is just ok for your small scale work, gimp is ok for a few things, inkscape is not good at all, scribus is useless, bla bla bla. but foss is really good ". what a joke. I wonder whether it is their own unsuccessful currier that is talking or the realities. so friends, it is time to really understand from the successful ones about their experiences because it is nice to hear that the glass is half filled rather than half empty. you see, it helps to fill that empty space. and by the way if a product is missing one feature which only 10 % of the users use, I will not consider the software useless. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
