The Grumpy Editor's guide to diagram editors [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor's guide to diagram editors

Posted May 5, 2004 2:56 UTC (Wed) by njhurst (guest, #6022)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to diagram editors

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned inkscape. It seems to be at least as capable as karbon14 and the only things it really misses are: attachment points, layers (soon to appear in 0.39) and clip art. It has antialiasing, arrows, grids and guides, kerning support, and even spirals! :) It can save to SVG and EPS and various bitmapped formats.

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Posted May 5, 2004 3:20 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Hmm...another one I missed. It looks like a followup article will be called for here. It can be hard to find all of the available applications in a given category...

Suggestion for future then...

Posted May 5, 2004 12:23 UTC (Wed) by alex (subscriber, #1355) [Link]

Perhaps it would be worthwhile picking/announcing a review subject a few weeks in advance and querying the collective brain to suggest suitible candidates for review?

I also agree with some of the other comments made that it would be worthwhile benchmarking reviews against the best-in-class or market leading proprietry packages for reference.