Comments on: CS3: Best way to be creative?

By: openFEVER

openFEVER — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:18:15 +0000

hi,

for vector graphics xara for linux is also open source and in my opinion a little bit better then inkscape.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:33:26 +0000

@Ken Comer. Wow. Wouldn’t that be nice to have SVG supported, and to design like that.

and

@Torben. Thanks for pointing out my typo in this post.

By: Torben

Torben — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:11:24 +0000

Ahh yes, notepad++, my favorit, all you need really - except firefox and CS3. I (btw) really like the new interface in CS3, got use to it after a few hours.

On a keynote, a minor typo ? extroardinarily / extraordinarily ?

By: Ken Comer

Ken Comer — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:07:03 +0000

A little note on InkScape: when browsers all become scalable vector graphics compatible, it will be possible to create your entire page using scalable vector graphics. This is no big deal for most of the world, but it is a pretty big deal for groups who divide programming and design into two groups. The designer could use inkscape (or other SVG programs) to make a mock-up of the final page, then the programmer could put the inkscape-generated information (in XML format) to make a page (using PHP, AJAX, etc.) without having to worry about cross-browser compatibility, screen resolution of the person reading the page, window size, etc. With SVG, everything would just shrink or grow to fit into the browser window as customized by the end user.
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If the mock-up is intended to be vertically scrolled, the scaling could be based on the width of the display window. If you want your page to be vertically and horizontally scrolled when it does not fit the window, this would not add much of a benefit to the final page appearance, but it would still make the programmer’s job much easier if the designer wants the end page to look exactly the same on all browsers and computers. Reportedly, it will also aid in accessibility for blind people but I don’t know whether that was based on making text items separable for the programmers or if bump displays and audio scrapers were able to decode the SVG/XML. (I’m guessing that the bump displays are already being sold with SVG functionality.)

By: Sucharith

Sucharith — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:32:31 +0000

Just read this article on Gimp coming up with 2.4.0 … Read it at http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NTkyMw