It really blew my mind when Andre Pang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > g'day, > > is there a plugin for the Gimp to allow it to have _both_ > bitmap layers and vector layers? as far as i know, the Gimp > doesn't support vector layers, but i haven't kept up since about > version 1.0. > > if the Gimp doesn't support this, is there any other > painting/drawing combo package on Linux which does? > > i find this combination to be immeasurably more powerful than a > simple standalone painting program (e.g. Gimp), or a standalone > drawing program (e.g. XFig). if you have no idea what i'm > talking about, think of the Gimp, except that you can have > KIllustrator (errr, Kontour) or XFig-like figures being drawn on a > special 'vector layer'. there's a really old program on the > Macintosh called "SuperDraw" which used to do this. Paint Shop > Pro on Windows does it too.
Hi Andre, My wife quite likes sketch. Shes says its a lot like Illustrator on Mac. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ The government everybody loves to abuse sues the company everybody loves to hate. Throw in a bunch of faceless lawyers cross-examining techies [with] all the charisma of a video driver and you've got a spectacle of thoroughly miniscule proportions. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
