Re: Inkscape vs. Draw (was: Re: [tdf-discuss] Apply button)

On Nov 16, 2010, at 4:16 PM, BRM wrote:
> It's other short-coming is that it's a do-one-thing-and-do-it-well piece of 
> software.
> It won't replace a Bitmap editor, which is very useful for creating new artwork 
> and getting the shading right.
>
> Yes, it does vector graphics and uses SVG. It's entirely designed around SVG. 
> Yes, you can probably export to other formats (been a while since I tried, 
> though I know at least PNG can be exported to).
> But that doesn't resolve the need for doing coloration, etc in the way a bitmap 
> editor can do it - which is the antithesis of InkScape.
> There are strengths and weaknesses to both - and yes, InkScape does a great job 
> at what it does. (I do love using it, and it's far far easier to use than GIMP.)
> But a suite like LibO needs both sides of the functionality.

I've long wanted to see a simple raster (bitmap) image editor included in LibO. I'd like it to 
include basic image cropping, saving in different formats, and simple editing, similar to what 
Preview in Mac OS X provides. 

Outside of MS Paint, which isn't powerful enough, there's no pre-installed tool for Windows users 
to manage these functions--thus an opening for LibO to step in and fill this user need. (How many 
times have you received Word docs that just contain a pasted image, because they have no other way 
to save the file? This happens to me in business settings frequently.)

-Ben

Benjamin Horst
bhorst@mac.com
646-464-2314 (Eastern)
www.solidoffice.com


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