Having a limited budget (i.e. cannot afford Adobe Illustrator) and having got bogged-down with Inkscape I have been searching for el-cheapo solution to text on a curve.
Anybody who has seen my Devawriter is going to be singularly unimpressed with the bitmapped, jaggy-edged title . . . but, hey, what do you expect if all I have to do that sort of thing is LightScribe Labeller !!! ? So, over here in England and Dad was looking for a way to do Venn diagrams with coloured, semi-transparent fills, and I suddenly remembered that I had downloaded Microsoft Expression a while back and had glanced at it and quickly forgotten about it: BIG MISTAKE . . . http://www.microsoft.com/expression/expression-design/Default.aspx [Yes, I am going against the grain and recommending a Microsoft product - but mainly because it isn't really a Microsoft product; Microsoft bought the product and then released it for FREE; funny really, but there you go.] It is available for Windows (well, it works on Dad's XP laptop - dunno about Vista and 7), Mac OS X (PPC - but suppose it will function with Rosetta - prob. not under 10.6) - works well at home under 10.5 and 10.4, working OK here on first edition G3 iMac on 10.3, and Mac OS 8 and 9. Very serviceable, FREE Vector Graphics program with a lot of levels of UNDO. It saves in its own format and to Illustrator and EPS; under 'save as Bitmap' it can export to JPG, PNG and so forth. The only slight snag is that it exports the whole 'page', so if your image is smaller than that you have to crop it in GIMP or somesuch. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I am the author of Devawriter http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/dwriter.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
