<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 31, 2012, at 1:13 PM, ale rimoldi wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">... but, sadly enough, layer are the only available workaround that is<br>available to the broad public!<br><br>so, since the alternatives are lacking, it's imo ok to use layers for<br>it, but it would be wonderful if somebody would specify a better way of<br>working!</span></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>Not clear where you're headed with that, ale...Layers aren't so great, but yet they are, since the alternative offerings are anemic or not well documented?</div><div><br></div><div>I could get behind a nodes-based tool if it gets me where I want to go. However, "Layers" enjoy one advantage in that they are, far and wide, the metaphor/paradigm/technology that all serious graphics apps employ...commercial and open source...</div><div><br></div><div>I would cite Gimp, Inkscape and Blender 3D and exemplars of the latter category. Blender uses nodes-based shader technology in addition to the more old-school texturing methods. But blender also has a very nice implementation of "Layers" as we all know them. And it goes one further by enabling objects to be on more than 1 layer at a time. Very cool.</div><div><br></div><div>If I have a mo, I'll happily give Scribus nodes method a look-see.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for mentioning it...hadn't even known it existed before you did.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>dcat</div></body></html>