[Clipart] Xara working with Inkscape

Alan alan at ccnsweb.com
Thu Nov 1 08:23:41 PDT 2007


Good article.  It's too bad it happened, but I sense that's the writing
on the wall for a lot of and perhaps even all closed-source companies.

You play well with others, or you don't play at all.

Alan

Greg Bulmash wrote:
> Before you get excited, read this...
>
> http://www.linux.com/feature/119790
>
> "On October 11, 2005, proprietary software maker Xara announced its 
> plans to open the source code to its flagship vector graphics package 
> Xara Xtreme, and with the help of community developers port it to Linux. 
> Today, two years later, the project is stagnant and on the verge of 
> irrelevance..."
>
> Then again, it's been 7+ months since the last stable release of 
> Inkscape.  I won't use the dev versions anymore.  The last time I did, I 
> spent an hour on a drawing only to watch Inkscape crash when I tried to 
> save it.
>
> So while this may be neat news, it's of little consequence.  Xara's 
> regarded as dead and Inkscape may keep announcing new features, but 
> they're as worthless as snot until they're part of a stable release.
>
> - Greg
>
>
>
>
> Alan wrote:
>   
>> Xara and Inkscape are working together.
>>
>> http://www.nabble.com/Xara---SVG-translator-project-t339799.html
>>
>>
>> For you graphic designers out there, this could be fun.
>>
>> http://www.xaraxtreme.org/screenshots.html
>>
>> http://www.xaraxtreme.org/
>>
>> Current state as given by Xara.
>>
>> http://support.xara.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=2562&nav=0,433,438
>>
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