[manas typed:] >http://www.xaraxtreme.org/
>I like it. It would be great if someone who does graphics for a living / >knows about such stuff made a comment. It can greatly aid conversations. >Cheers, >Manas hi manas, i installed xara xtreme 8 to 10 months ago on my ubuntu and played with it. also wrote to their developers about something and got a disappointing response after a delay of perhaps one month or more. tried importing and exporting some vector fileformats through xara but it could not handle it properly. soon, my initial excitement and enthusiasm for xtreme rapidly faded. i even forgot i had installed it until i saw your email. in contrast, inkscape has become a very mature graphic design software, in some ways exceeding even professional proprietary tools. the learning curve is small, the community is highly-response, and the buzz is very high. whether you are a designer, a user, a developer, or even a documentation-specialist, you can easily get involved with this project. the openclipart.org project is related with this. have successfully pulled off some professional assignments using inkscape, in the most demanding needs. hope this helps. :-) niyam -- niyam bhushan -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
