At 06:38 PM 11/20/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>I am truly disappointed in tgif. This is a nice app that,
>on the surface, has all the graphics tools I could want
>but it is a FATAL flaw for what you see on the screen to
>be only loosely associated with what prints. All highlighting
>boxes and arrows to text I made, which looked perfect on
>screen, ALL came out of the printer more and more displaced
>on the printout as you moved from left to right on the page.
I haven't tried tgif, but what you are describing could well be a problem
of the printer driver and/or particular brand of printer. If tgif writes
true postscript and your printer prints postscript then you shouldn't have
any problem. I'd like to explore more linux vector apps, but since I
already have the windows versions, I tend to stick with what I know works.
Maybe if I get some free time...
>As for the Gimp, I assume there is a plugin or something I
>am not seeing since I could see no drawing tool that would
>create boxes, whether with colored borders, filled with color
>or some grey tone, or pattern (which could then be moved to
>the back or behind text or whatever). It was such
>as these that I needed to highlight certain text fields and
>data fields.
The Gimp also looks promising for bitmap, but it just doesn't do CMYK
images and that pretty much rules out all serious (print based) image work.
>Lyx...I like Lyx but I could find no way to do the above
>either. You can insert ps or other graphics into a page
>but I could find no way to do what I list above, draw lines,
>boxes or other shapes into and among the text.
>
>Killustrator: not even close to being truly useful.
>
>xfig can't do it (so it seems...I just downloaded it and
>tried to see about pasting text into it) - wont import
>basic ascii text.
Three things I'd like to do; (1) start learning C++ - I stopped at C and
have forgotten most of it now. (2) Clone myself. (3) Set the clone to
work on a combo app of the best of Illustrator and Freehand. :)
Stephen King Crazed Artist Studios
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