Ian Lynch wrote:
Use Xara on Linux now its being Open Sourced. Its the fastest vector
Xara is Open Source, but is very far from a working version on Linux.
graphics tool of professional quality out there. Its a pity it could not
Indeed, their renderer is very fast. Some people at Inkscape are evaluating if it possible to use the Xara renderer inside Inkscape instead or in addition of the current renderer or maybe in addition to Cairo.
be integrated with OOo in place of Draw, that would have made the graphic illustration side of OOo superior to anything the competition can muster. (There is the added problem that its only being open sourced on Mac and Linux) This is a downside of monolithic applications. It
There is no added problem: Xara is GPL. They plan to bundle the Windows binary with 3-rd party addons, documentation and other extras and sell it as a boxed set, but it will be possible to build the code for Windows and have your own binary.
A real difficulty for integration would be file formats, as Xara does not use and does not plan to use OpenDocument Format and the widget set (WXWidgets for Xara)
fundamentally mitigates against mix and match of the best tools. Open Communication standards between applications and open data standards are important for the very reason that they enable more choice and competition to improve the technology. It will take time but ODF has the potential to create the environment for that sort of progress.
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