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[monkeyo2]

look at this: http://screencasters...p067/ep067.html

Thanks for posting that link, it has raised my Pandora excitment levels right up again after a bit of a barren patch this last week! The smoothing function is exactly the sort of thing I'd been hoping be able to use on Pandora, and Spiro looks pretty good too!

I think you'll always like the Vector drawing package you learned to use first the most, and for me that was CorelDRAW. I use Illustrator much more these days (mainly as it produces files that actually work properly when you send them off to a commercial printer!), but often find myself wondering why some things are much more complex and fiddly than they are in Corel. I also really like drawing in Flash, the way it smooths out lines as you're drawing makes drawing a lot of fun (if you're into that sort of thing). Inkscape looks like it combines the bézier tools I like from Corel with the smoothing tools I like from Flash! I would download it right now and play with it all night if I didn't have to go to work tomorrow.

I also noticed with great interest that the Screencasters demo was captured in a 900x650 sized window (not a million miles away from Pandora's resolution), and the guy didn't really use the full screen area to work in. If this all runs on Pandora at a usable speed, it really is going to be the best thing ever!

[Eniko]

I think you'll always like the Vector drawing package you learned to use first the most

Personally my first was Adobe Illustrator and I loathe it with so much of a vengeance that I've never bothered with vectors since. This one looks like it might change my opinion on such matters though.

[monkeyo2]

Personally my first was Adobe Illustrator and I loathe it with so much of a vengeance that I've never bothered with vectors since. This one looks like it might change my opinion on such matters though.

I know what you mean, but if you'd started using it regularly, and then switched to Corel, or heaven forbid, Freehand, I still maintain that you'd probably hate them even more!