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Try comparing Apples to OrangesTry comparing Apples to OrangesPosted May 5, 2004 22:05 UTC (Wed) by GreyWizard (subscriber, #1026)In reply to: Try comparing to professional illustration programs by stevenj Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to diagram editors
Unfortunately, [...] most of these tools [...] don't hold a candle to professional drawing programs like Adobe Illustrator or Deneba Canvas. Hmmn... Are you the sort of person who strolls into a hardware store and exclaims, "What the heck! I don't see watermellons on any of these shelves. Where are the watermellons? What a pathetic store this is! They don't even sell watermellons..."? Do you shake your fist at apple carts that don't contain enough oranges? Would you go to a web site for graphic artists and complain about the lack of Linux kernel coverage? Well, here you are on a web site with an explict free software focus, reading an article (by someone who admits in the first sentence that he is not artistically inclined) that attempts to survey free software drawing tools for simple diagrams -- excuse me, primitive 1980 illustrations -- and all you can think to do is moan about the lack of whizzy proprietary graphic artist tools? Settle down for goodness sakes.
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comparing to the best available proprietary software *is* apples to apples Posted May 6, 2004 0:11 UTC (Thu) by stevenj (guest, #421) [Link] Well, here you are on a web site with an explict free software focus, reading an article (by someone who admits in the first sentence that he is not artistically inclined) that attempts to survey free software drawing tools for simple diagrams—excuse me, primitive 1980 illustrations—and all you can think to do is moan about the lack of whizzy proprietary graphic artist tools? Settle down for goodness sakes.I'm not moaning about the lack of proprietary graphics programs—I'm moaning that I want to use a free drawing programs, but they all seem to be dramatically inferior to the proprietary stuff on other operating systems (even proprietary drawing programs from 10 years ago). I'm still optimistic that this will change, but it won't as long as we compare only to other free-software programs on a platform (Unix) that traditionally hasn't had good graphics software (until MacOS X). Please, raise the bar!
comparing to the best available proprietary software *is* apples to apples Posted May 13, 2004 18:25 UTC (Thu) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link] > Please, raise the bar!Query returned empty set (TM)
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