[Scribus] Inkscape and Gimp

frank gaude' tanzen
Sun Jun 4 18:51:14 CEST 2006


Craig Ringer wrote:
> Silvio Lopes wrote:
>  > I Just
>   
>> thought that It would be great to have some kind of "Open Source 
>> Creative Suite", just like Adobe Creative Suite. With more than CMYK and 
>> spot color in Gimp and Inkscape. Creating a full integrated design 
>> environment combining the 3 software. I know it?s not an easy task.
>>     
>
> To be honest I'd go beyond that and say that at this point it doesn't 
> look practical. The best and easiest way to approach that is with shared 
> tools and libraries - and the tools the three projects use are all 
> remarkably different. It's not impossible, just a big job made bigger by 
> the major differences in all the projects.
>
> LGM was a step toward better communication and cooperation. I personally 
> suspect most future collaboration will be of ideas, not code, so it was 
> a very important step.
>   
Thanks, and does this go for the code and ideas from Xara?

frank






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