On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:24:51PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
|On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:18:31PM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
|> What do I use? I need a spartan simple tool like magicpoint itself. Is
xfig the right choice? What about inkscape? I am somewhat excited with SVG. Are
ther other image manipulation tools out there? I guess gimp would be an
overkill. And openoffice is not meant for UNIX geeks.:-)
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|metapost is great if you need figures with tex captions (though it's a
|programmer's tool).
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First of all many thanks for responding.
I dont know Tex and metapost is too complex for me. Sorry.
|I'm also partial to kig, in kde-edu, which is great for geometric stuff.
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|Gimp is a fine pixel drawing program. Depends a lot if you can live with
|pixel-art, or if you really need vectorial stuff.
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|We don't have a working port of inkscape yet. This is a big issue with
|boehm-gc based software: this library tends to work rather badly on OpenBSD
|for now.
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|There are also a few drawing programs in koffice, and they tend to get better
|from release to release...
Hmm, no KDE please. I am fine with using inkscape on some other OS. I am
interested in knowing how you folks have managed to make such sexy eye candy
presentations. :-)
I am really running out of time guys, at max I can spend three to four days
learning a tool.
Thanks again.
regards,
Girish
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