On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:29:13 +0100, Fabien ILLIDE wrote: > Hi to all, > First, I'm NOT a graphist ;-) > > Liam Quin a écrit : > > ... >> Having said that, there are a lot of other things GIMP would need >> to compete with PhotoShop in the professional pre-print world... >> Some that spring to mind include >> * trapping, colour separation, undercolour removal, hexachrome support >> (this is where the printing press has 6 colours), duotone and tritone >> support, controls for bleed and dot gain, together with support for >> generating files at any given lines per inch (this is not the same >> as dpi, it's for screening, and control over screen angle is needed) > > I don't know so I trust you. > >> * support for reading PhotoShop files (there's some of that already) > > Yes, I don't know how far it goes, but I've open some .psd files and don't > see a problem. > >> * maybe support for PhostoShop plugins? Not sure how possible this is > > I've not try, but I've see on the curent devel Gimp 1.3 a menu for the > 'Toshop plugins \o/ > Seems to be on good way. > >> We'd also need something like Illustrator... sodipodi doesn't cut it... >> and Quark, where neither OpenOffice nor scribus is there. > > Sure, but things is going on the right direction I think. (I mean : just > look 2 years ago) > >> I think we're several years away from being able to consider Linux as >> a strong platform for graphic design work. In the meantime, it really >> isn't worth fighting a battle with people who use PhostoShop for a >> living, as they're not going to move to Linux. Choose battles you >> can win, and win them :-) > > (For the 3D, Blender seems good, as far as I read.) > > But the only way to speed up devel of graphic apps, is to use them, and > propose usefull ideas. And for have usefull ideas, you should be a > graphist yourself, so graphist should use Gimp and others anyway, even if > it's only for testing/improving, and not for "real" work. > > That's what's Bruno Bellamy do (more than that, only FreeSoftwares AFAIK), > http://neverland.net/bellamy/ I hope other talented guys will follow.
Beep.. Wrong, Bruno has to use non free software for its printed material, because of CYMK issue.. -- Frederic Crozat MandrakeSoft
