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Fulton Green ale at FultonGreen.com
Fri Aug 30 10:39:30 EDT 2002


Is anyone out there using the development version of GIMP (the 1.3.x tree)?
That may have some vector stuff as well as CMYK support. Or maybe not.
Regardless, make sure you have your GTK2-based libs installed ...

On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 10:33:55AM -0400, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 10:10, Christopher R. Curzio wrote:
> > Err, I've seen this comment a lot, and it bugs me a little.
> > 
> > GIMP is not really meant to be a vector drawing tool any more than say,
> > Photoshop. That's really why Adobe makes Illustrator, with Photoshop as
> > its Bitmap counterpart. Saying the lack of vectors in GIMP is a drawback
> > is like saying that my 1991 Nissan's only drawback is that it can't go
> > offroad like a Hum-Vee. They're both designed for transportation, but each
> > serves a different, specific need. 
> > 
> > I don't know about PS6, or if it has any vector utilities (as I haven't
> > been current with Photoshop since I bought v4) but I still think its
> > primary function is bitmap editing. 
> 
> That's what I always thought, too, but I've recently watched someone use
> photoshop as a drawing tool.  It either has vector stuff, or something
> that can fake it pretty well.
> 
> At the end, I think PS produced a bitmap, but there were a lot of
> vectors used before the end.  It convinced me that it would be useful to
> have a lot more drawing tools in the GIMP.

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