On 10/13/07, jtd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Another analogy will be of people not using Linux for CAD because > > we are yet to see tools which will match softwares like AutoCAD. > > brlcad is EXCEPT for dimensioning. One of the list guys did the hard > work of trying it out and comparing to acad. > > The advantages of using foss far outweigh any disadvantage. And again > the disadvatages have proven to be mostly imaginary or very > temporary. Coversely most of the touted advantages of closed app have > actually proven to be millstones that killed them. The advantages are > actually desperate compromises that are extremely hardware / oss / > assumptions dependent and none of the compromises have been peer > reviewed. > > I could go on and on. But you will miss the fun of discovery at > costs. >
Dear JTD, Thanks for expressing your views and I dont feel there is any use in replying to half cooked arguments of yours. You are not willing to look at the real problem and no one can understand the real problems with inlscape untill you have the domain knowledge. You are refusing to look at analogies presented from other domains but looks like that was insufficient. I used these analogies to bring out the seriousness of the missing features. I understand that you belong to the group of people who would be happy to fart one million lines of code in the name of "FOSS" but will not spend 10 minutes trying to understand the problem which has to be solved. There are no excuses for bad quality software weather it is foss or non-foss. Any compariosons with cost etc is useless untill you can use it for what you want to achieve. Inkscape has several serious problems/mistakes. First of all inkscape will not export (images or selections) in any format other than png. At times you simply dont need png and png implementation is known to be broken for several non-foss and foss applications. This is only the tip of the iceberg. Inkscape shouts about SVG format and they are yet to fully implement SVG 1.1 standard. You can have a look at the road map and with little doamin knowledge you will realize the blunders in Inkscape development. Now I expect everyone to do mistakes but I do expect them to fix them *in time*. Overall inkscape has a really long road to travel before it can touch the quality of other softwares in the same domain. regards VK -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
