[CLUE-Tech] Linux for publishing and the masses

[Dennis J Perkins]

> On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 15:02, Dale K. Hawkins wrote:
> > A friend sent me this.  I would be interested to hear people's
> > opinions.  Especially if anyone has any real publishing experience.
> > (I replied with what I know about Linux, but being a programmer, I
> > could not imagine using any other OS).
> 
> On this topic... I think someone has already mentioned the Gimp as a
> suitable Photoshop replacement, but has anyone tried Sodipodi? It seems
> to be an Illustrator-like application. It only saves in SVG and exports
> to PNG, but it can (apparently) produce some pretty sweet graphics:
> http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Since I'm pretty hopeless when it comes to computer graphics, someone
> else will have to evaluate Sodipodi in terms of its quality as a
> graphics app...but it looks pretty sweet.
> 
> Zonker
> -- 
> Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
> jzb at dissociatedpress.net
> Aim: zonkerjoe
> http://www.dissociatedpress.net

There's also a program called Sketch.  It requires Python and a graphics 
library, and possibly GTK or GNOME as well.