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vector graphics help
worker201:
Hello. I am sick and tired of Adobe's corner on the vector graphics market, and I need your help. My goal is an open-source vector graphics program which is as good as or better than Adobe Illustrator. It will use non-proprietary industry standards (like SVG) at its core, but it will be able to import and export PostScript and PDF. It will be able to deal with Type1, Type2, Type3, OpenType, Freetype, and TrueType fonts interchangeably. It will be able to view and vectorize raster images. Additionally, it will be fully integrated with open source graphics/X, providing such things as thumbnails and other desktop interactivity. Primary focus is on a professional desktop vector graphics system, and specific prepress functions or artistic enhancements will be secondary. I suppose that one day it might be ported to Windows, but I want no part of such a project. However, a .app, like the OSX version of the GIMP which works through Apple X11, will be produced at each development stage.
Unfortunately, the only language I know really well is HTML. I know a decent bit of JavaScript and XML, and a tiny bit of C, C++, PostScript, and Perl.
So ... any ideas, suggestions, directions, volunteers?
adiment:
Try http://www.inkscape.org. I don't know if it has all that but it does have many tools and does SVG.
worker201:
--- Quote from: etement ---Try www.inkscape.org. I don't know if it has all that but it does have many tools and does SVG.
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I'm familiar with inkscape. It's a start, but they are a long way off, and don't seem to be heading in the right direction. For some reason (probably having to do with the GPL), most developers, including those at inkscape, find the licenses required to deal with PostScript to be too much hassle. Meaning that current work in PostScript is not/barely supported. This does not meet my needs.
I want a program that can take PS and EPS and PDF and SVG and whatever other filetypes and open them and manipulate them with ease and finesse. If that means the program won't be covered by the GPL, then that's okay. It would be nice to be full-on GNU, but I'm not willing to sacrifice functionality for it.
H_TeXMeX_H:
Uhhh ... I'm not sure if this qualifies cuz it can't import/export ps, but it's easy to make pdfs with it, I use it ... scribus
Pathos:
--- Quote from: worker201 ---I'm familiar with inkscape. It's a start, but they are a long way off, and don't seem to be heading in the right direction. For some reason (probably having to do with the GPL), most developers, including those at inkscape, find the licenses required to deal with PostScript to be too much hassle. Meaning that current work in PostScript is not/barely supported. This does not meet my needs.
I want a program that can take PS and EPS and PDF and SVG and whatever other filetypes and open them and manipulate them with ease and finesse. If that means the program won't be covered by the GPL, then that's okay. It would be nice to be full-on GNU, but I'm not willing to sacrifice functionality for it.
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...any links to licensing information ? I can't find anything on postscript. Is it additional features like font support ?
If there are restrictive licenses then its probably impossible to release it open source or for free.
What kind of programming background do you have ? (not trying to be insulting ... just this is a big and incredibly difficult project)
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