I drew the Kiwi Sink map using Inkscape. I like the app a lot, and I like the fact that it's open source, but it did crash at least 50 times while working on the map. The saving grace is that it does a great job of creating a backup of your project when it detects that it has crashed. Crashing was inconvenient, but I never lost a bit of work. I just kept having to go delete the primary file and rename the backup to be the primary and then continue.
I think that the main reason it crashes it that I had embedded a bunch of 300 dpi sketch notes in the document, making it rather large. Perhaps if you link to files rather than embedding them, it won't crash as much. I'll try that next time. Dale On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Mark Minton <mmin...@caver.net> wrote: > A free program that is roughly equivalent to Illustrator is > Inkscape <http://inkscape.org/>. I have not used it for anything but > reading files sent to me by others, but I know people who use it > exclusively to draw cave maps. > > Mark > > At 04:23 PM 5/13/2013, Ted Samsel wrote: > >> GIMP is free (from GNU). http://www.gimp.org/ >> >> Instructions are less cryptic than Adobe's. One could try that. >> >> At USGS I used Photoshop from 1995 to 2011. The CS packages were >> overkill. WTF does one need? and Adobe Illustrator from 1998 to 2011. PS >> 3.0 was fine by me. Digital wanking gets old. <snork> >> >> I used Adobe Illustrator to edit ESRI GIS (ARCMAP) compositions as >> registered layers. It was easier to do text with AI than with ESRI which >> kept changing the underlying SW. We kept hearing ESRI and ORACLE were going >> to merge. even in 1987. Still hasn't happened. >> >> Ted >> >> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 2:29 PM, James Jasek <caver...@hot.rr.com> wrote: >> Yes, I wanted it to go out to everyone. The important part is the link to >> Adobe. They have a Q&A that answers all the questions and clears up >> misconceptions. >> >> I started with Adobe Photoshop when it was only written for the >> Mac,version 2.0, an never paid more than $199 for an upgrade. To me, being >> unemployed is an outrage. >> >> I am currently using CS3 as it is the only version I am able to use on my >> Mac G5, I bought CS6 last year, for $199, and will use it when I upgrade to >> a new Mac Pro Desktop. Apple keeps promising a new Mac Pro. >> >> I am running CS6 on my wife's Macbook Pro and there are NO problems. >> >> You are out of luck as Adobe cut off an upgrade from CS3 to CS6. You will >> have to go to the cloud or buy the full version of CS6 as a new customer. >> This was why I bought CS6 upgrade as I knew Adobe was about to cut it off. >> For once I got lucky :) >> >> Those jerks that download pirated versions of Photoshop is one of the >> main reasons Adobe moved to rental. They are making all of us pay for >> steeling software. >> >> Jim >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> From: Mixon Bill <bmixon...@austin.rr.com> >>> Date: May 13, 2013 2:02:22 PM CDT >>> To: James Jasek <caver...@hot.rr.com> >>> Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Photoshop >>> >>> James (only) -- Not sure whether you meant to send that link about the >>> Adobe Creating Suite rental scheme to the whole Texas Cavers list or not. >>> If there's been an inquiry about it there, I didn't see it. (Sometimes I >>> think I don't get quite all the posts.) >>> >>> Seems like not such a bad deal, really. I bought CS3 for over $2100 back >>> in 2007 (would have been more if I'd bought a more complete suite of >>> programs, including the web stuff). True, I've used it for 5.5 years, but >>> I'm still stuck with CS3, not the latest versions. And it would have taken >>> me almost 4 years to pay that amount at the rate of $50 a month, so I'm not >>> terribly far ahead of where I'd have been had I been paying subscription >>> all this time. (No doubt the list price of the more recent versions has >>> gone up, too, and I doubt there's much of an upgrade discount from CS3 for >>> CS7.) >>> >>> And since I've been stuck with CS3, I haven't upgraded my Mac system to >>> OS 10.6 (Lion) because I heard that some of the CS3 programs have at least >>> cosmetic problems with the newer operating system. That sort of thing >>> wouldn't arise with a subscription that allows one to upgrade at no extra >>> cost. >>> >>> But then I know people who have the whole latest version for nothing. >>> Not hard to find on the web programs that will unlock pirated versions from >>> disk. I imagine people will figure out how to patch subscription versions >>> so that they'll continue to run after you stop paying, too. >>> >>> If there has been a significant thread about this on Texas Cavers, feel >>> free to post this if you want to. -- Bill Mixon >>> >> >> Please reply to mmin...@caver.net >> Permanent email address is mmin...@illinoisalumni.org >> > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > Visit our website: http://texascavers.com > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > texascavers-unsubscribe@**texascavers.com<texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com> > For additional commands, e-mail: > texascavers-help@texascavers.**com<texascavers-h...@texascavers.com> > >
