[Noisebridge-discuss] Electronics at Noisebridge

[Jonathan]

Yeah, Inkscape is a little funky, but hey, so is Illustrator.
Though Inkscape it buggier, I find it conceptually easier to use, and
it's pretty powerful.

Anyway. Windell from Evil Mad Scientists does all his documentation
using it and it looks great.

YMMV, but you can't beat the price, or the fact that  it's FOSS.


On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:13:08AM -0800, Mitch Altman wrote:
>> I've never used Inkscape.  Their website says they are on version
>> 0.47.  Their FAQ says that they have no release date for v1.00, and
>> that before that happens a bunch of stuff needs to happen.  But, in
>> your opinion, v0.47 is good enough to use without much hassle?
>
> I've used inkscape on Debian successfully for a few years.  Save often
> and keep multiple backups (using Git or Mercurial probably), because it
> segfaults occasionally and I've even had it corrupt the saved file.
>
> That said, it's usable but basically the same feature set as any other
> vector graphics program.  As someone who's not a free software junkie
> like me, you're probably better off just working in Illustrator or Corel
> and exporting to SVG as necessary.
>
> -andy
>