On 8/4/06, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> As you may see, the beamer fonts are respected in the xfig inset.
> The inferior quality of my example as it appears on your beamer
> presentation is because you took the screenshot of the kpdf output. You
> will not notice any difference if you use acroread. (A screenshot is
> attached.)
All,
I'm sorry that my request for vector drawing suggestions raised
testosterone levels so high. That was not my intent.
The point that _I_ think is important is the number of choices available
to those of us who work in a F/OSS environment. It doesn't matter one bit --
at least to me -- what approach is used; they all work and each of us is
comfortable using a different application to reach the same end point. Heck,
I got excellent LaTeX fonts in my Tgif figures, too.
I think the count of vector drawing applications (point-and-shoot, coding,
whatever) is about 18. This does not include data plotting applications (of
which I know of about a half-dozen). Those stuck behind closed Windows
should appreciate that we have a plethora of choices, not the only one that
comes out of Redmond. As this thread illustrates so well, each choice has
its following who are passionate that their comfortable way is The One True
Way.
The same response of "Oh, yeah? Let's put 'em on the bar and see who's
bigger" used to regularly occur on the local linux/UNIX user group's mail
list. Someone would ask how to accomplish a task and within a few hours
solutions were presented as: bash shell scripts, grep, perl, python, ruby,
lisp, sed/awk, and so on.
IMNSHO, the major point is that we have multiple ways of accomplishing the
same tasks and reaching the same goals. In the end -- on paper or projected
on a screen -- they all work. None is better or worse, they're just all
different. Is it Emacs or Vi? Xfce, Gnome, or KDE? One of the 200+
distributions? Who really cares? Perhaps some, but not me.
You're both correct, and I am grateful to learn from both of you how you
use your tool of choice. Thank you very much for that.
Maybe, Rich misunderstood me. I did not mean to be defending Inkscape
against Xfig (or any other program). My only intent was to illustrate,
to the public of this list, the possibilities of Inkscape, specially
regarding the insertion of math formulas. I am not enough literate
regarding drawing programs to be able of judging one better than the
other one.
Paul
