[ubuntu-art] Quick Update

[Kenneth Wimer]

On Jun 26, 2006, at 11:02 PM, Michiel Sikma wrote:

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> On Jun 26, 2006, at 10:29 PM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
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>> OK, I think we are making progress here!
>>
>> Michiel Sikma wrote:

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>> We would like to flesh out and complete Human during Edgy, and  
>> will backport that to Dapper (along with Frank's Firefox-Human  
>> theme) in a point release.
>
> I will make this my priority for now.
>
> Maybe someone, who is listening in on this conversation, could use  
> this occasion to give me an idea about the status of Adobe  
> Illustrator as a suitable vector program. I'm willing to learn how  
> to get used to Inkscape, since it seems to be not too difficult,  
> but I was wondering if it's also possible to properly export SVGs  
> with Illustrator. I don't want to contribute anything that's  
> useless to anybody besides the folks who use that particular program.
>

As long as you stay away from any filters and effects it works fine.  
Note however that some SVGs made in inkscape cannot be edited without  
loss in AI (inkscape can make a gradient with transparency in the  
nodes and can also make stroke gradients...AI can show this stuff  
correctly but it cannot edit them). In the end, you should save the  
SVG with AI and then test it with inkscape to make sure that  
everything works. One good thing about AI is that the paths it writes  
are much smaller than inkscape.

Bye,
Ken