Charles Marcus wrote:
On 12/9/2009, David B Teague ([email protected]) wrote:
Many thanks for your response. I conclude with surprise that from
what you say, "Draw" cannot erase details, or at least it erases
details with difficulty. What does one do when one makes a mistake?
"Undo" is a blunt instrument.
Draw is a VECTOR GRAPHICS program. 'Erase' is something one does with a
RASTER GRAPHICS program. If I nderstand correctly (not an expert),
vector graphics are essentially just visual representations of
mathematical expressions.
Shouting the name of a program and its type when the recipient has no
knowledge of what that means is a waste of energy typing. Please spend a
few words saying what this means in a way that explains why that makes
deleting a symbol difficult and why that doesn't make the program useless.
I understand the difference between a page layout program such as
Scriptsit and a word processing program such as Writer. Unless this is
something else I think I know about but do not, with the page layout the
idea is to assemble the already constructed pieces in relation to each
other to make a visually attractive documemnt, whereas with the word
processor, the words, typeface and font, and format are of interest.
Now tell me in a few words what the hell Draw DOES so I can understand
why "erase" is so foreign to it.
I'll go through the Draw tutorial carefully and see if I can find
what Draw does. Meanwhile I'll take a look at "the Gimp".
GIMP is a RASTER GRAPHICS program. Supposedly it does (or did) have some
very limited support for vector graphics, but thats not its purpose.
Again, yelling the name of a program doesn't help. Please characterize,
without shouting, a Raster Graphic program, and why it is so different
from a vector graphics program that it allows a graphical element to be
removed.
And don't yell. I'm ignorant, not stupid. Besides, shouting doesn't help
the stupid or the ignorant.
--David
