[ubuntu-art] A request

[Kenneth Wimer]

Hi all,

I agree completely with Étienne,

On Jun 11, 2006, at 10:33 PM, Étienne Bersac wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I don't condamn proprietary software users. But that's just as shame
> when people see Ubuntu coming with "great professionnal art software"
> such as Gimp and Inkscape, but artwork wasn't done with that tools.  
> Does
> the pope preach for islam ?
>
> Can you share you files between Illustrator and Inkscape or between
> Photoshop and Gimp ? I guess not without loss, using transitionnal
> format that wont allow a rocking collaborative work or using import
> plugin that don't support such or such functionnality. Consider the
> problem of format openness.
>
> Please don't consider Free Software as lesser software. A bunch of
> artists use that software to do rocking art. That's often a matter of
> habits.
>
> However, I'm not one of those guys who wants to enforce people to use
> free software. Just use open format readable and writable with free
> software included in Ubuntu. I'm not able to buy proprietary software
> license such as Photoshop nor Illustrator !

It is very important that we use a format such as SVG (originally  
made by Adobe, I might add). There are certain losses between, for  
instance, inkscape and AI...inkscape supports gradients (both stroke  
and fill) with transparency per stop, AI has a great set of filters  
and SVG effects (which actually do follow the svg spec but as yet are  
not supported by inkscape).

As long as people who make artwork for open source software make sure  
that it also looks best and is editable in that same open source  
software, it really doesn't matter where it came from.

In the meantime, I am an aritst who is always bitching about both AI  
and Inkscape :-)

Bye,
Ken