On Saturday 11 March 2006 18:39, John R. Culleton wrote: > On Saturday 11 March 2006 17:00, Michael Schumacher wrote: > > wayne wrote: > > > http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/03/07/1813207 > > > > > > Saw the above article on Newsforge. > > > > Well, it shows that the author doesn't read the OpenUsability > > forum. Of course, this makes it a suitable article for > > NewsForged, but without proof for the authors claims it is > > worthless. > > > > I'd highly recommend and appreciate it if anyone who wants to > > participate in the discussion that will take place in this > > thread reads the relevant sources (OpenUsability forum, GIMP > > mailing list archives, news group and Bugzilla for threads > > concerning GIMPShop) himself and in whole. Thank you. > > > > > > Michael > > There has been a history of Gimp leadership downplaying the needs > of the DTP world. In particular the CMYK color model has been > avoided. Now there is (slow) movement in that direction, but CMS > profiles are needed as well. > > Meanwhile other products are coming to the fore that have CMYK > and CMS capabalities from the start. Among products usable today > there is Inkscape the drawing program and Scribus, which is more > of a Quark replacement. > > But a more direct alternative in terms of replacing Gimp > functionality is Krita, part of the Koffice site but not normally > distributed with it. Krita is buggier than a summer picnic and > crashes are frequent. But development is proceeding rapidly and > the feature set is already impressive. It calls itself a > "painting and image editing" program, which is Gimp territory to > be sure. And one of the principal developers asked me what plug > ins I especially liked in Gimp, to give him some rainy day > projects. And it already has CMYK and CMS profiles. > > By no means am I ready to jump ship. But I keep my eyes on these > other alternatives. Gimp either meets the DTP challenge or will > have to face a Photoshop port or clone someday. And keep an eye > on Krita.
Totally agree with this post. When Krita matures, Gimp is going to have some insane competition. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
