On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 12:33:29 +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 06:57:07PM +0100, Burkhard Ritter > wrote: > > On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Aedificator wrote: > > > > > Is there any graphics program for working with graphics in > > > Linux as powerful as CorelDraw is?
The short answer, no. CorelDraw is the kitchen sink. You do stuff like photo editing, vector drawing, even OCR (optical character recognition) and media preview and management. You can approximate this by using a variety of tools. For example, for photo editing, use The Gimp. For OCR, maybe clara or gocr. Note that all these free tools come short in highend functions like color calibration. > > Have a look at Sketch or (for _very_ simple things) > > Tgif. Both are not as powerful as CorelDraw, but Sketch might > > become in the future. > > What about OpenOffice.org drawing app? (www.openoffice.org). > Debian version is available. But you have to download all of > the office suite (~54 MB deb). Why download another kitchen sink? I'm not particularly impressed with the OpenOffice draw component. If you're a Gnome user, I'll recommend Sodipodi <http://www.sodipodi.com/>. The program uses the free SVG file format: "Sodipodi uses W3C SVG as its native file format. It is therefore a very useful tool for web designers." If you need convincing, look at: http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/index.php3?section=gallery/fame If you're a KDE user, I would have recommended Kontour (the program formerly known as KIllustrator). But recent versions I managed to download from both KDE CVS and unofficial Debian apt sites have been pretty borken. There's another KDE project called karbon, which should be enough if you don't fuss around with bezier curves. [...] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
